Rematch Analysis: Miguel Cotto Should Beat Margarito

[Live Dog]

I hear a lot about how Cotto needs to make adjustments and he can win the fight...that's fine an all...but what about Margarito? he can also make adjustments and come back even stronger. Listen Cotto gets credit from all the fans and he was a warrior but he will never beat Margarito, period. It all comes down to chin and size. If the rematch is signed Cotto will be KOd faster. Margarito knows more about Cotto after fighting him, no way he lets him cruise to a decision.

Margarito is not the adjustment type. He knows one style and one style only and that will never change.

[la pantera]

What a lot of people don't realize is that Margarito used his strengths and tools and they eventually won him the fight over Cotto's strength and tools.

Margarito obviously realizes he has a great chin by this point in his career, so he covered his body and threw a lot of shots to the body in just the first 2 rounds(I counted just over 30 body punches THROWN to the body, not necessarily landed). Margarito protected his body moving his elbows in and out well.

Cotto's chin did not nor will it ever match up to Margarito's, if they were to exchange Cotto would have lost in 4 rounds, that was obvious in the second.

Cotto stood on his left hook in the first round, but he got dinged early and didn't want anything to do with Margarito in an exchange, the second round proved this further.

Margarito constantly throws punches with power from all angles, he will hit you with shots you don't see coming. Look at the first minute of the first round vs. the last two minutes. This changed Cotto's game plan early on, he realized shots were going to come whether he was standing in front of him or not, so why stand in front of a bigger stronger man? He took a page out of Mayweather's book but he is no Mayweather.

Cotto didn't really land to much clean in the first round, he did land but nothing significant enough to give him the confidence to stand in there. While Margarito landed the unnoticed to the announcers hard body punches.

At the beginning of the first 3 rounds in the first minute Cotto tried standing in but he got stung each time and went to his stick and move category.

Margarito also put a little distance between himself and Cotto when Cotto was on the ropes, which negated clinching. If he clinched it would have looked ugly in that he would have had to jump towards him to clinch. Margarito's upper cuts didn't come in flurries till midway in the fight when Cotto was tired. The few times that Cotto tried to clinch Margarito freed a hand and just continued to throw punches till Cotto let go and covered up.

You know when he started moving away from his strength, his patented left hook and towards Margarito's stronger right he was in trouble so in the first two rounds. Cotto complained in the third round about a low blow on the hip, I had never seen him complain in a pleading way like that, I knew he was scared at that point.

By the 7th round Cotto was doubling over from every left hook to the body, and it was just a matter of time before Margarito took him out.

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[la pantera]

Cotto needs to work on defense....to hell with all of that running.

Slip and block some of that **** and then rely on footwork.

He needs more angles also.

Like Baby Floyd.

Yeah but that "****" comes naturally to Floyd..he ain't Floyd. Cotto's boxing skills are as good as you gonna get...there is not much he can improve on...he is not an amateur boxer, you are looking at the complete package now.

[EDD1]

Margarito ran Cotto ragged in that fight.In a rematch Cotto could fight for 6-8 rounds or he could run and box for 9-11 rounds again but either way he gets taken out again.People don't give Tony enough credit for the amount of body work he did in that fight from the 1st till the 11th and the way he took away Cotto's body shots by defending his body so well all fight and the great use of the uppercut.The man beat the best body puncher at his own game and got the better of a faster shorter armed fighter on the inside.That fight wasn't about what Cotto did wrong but about what Margarito did great.

YES! finally someone cuts through the bull, thanx

[KingTito]

I definitely think he can make the right adjustments to win a rematch. It'll be tough, but he is very capable. He was clearly the better boxer. He needs to fight an incredible fight though.

[La Perla]

only way i see Cotto beating Margo is if he works on his stamina and endurance.

dITTO!! i AGREE tHATS all he needed to finish handeling Margo but if he falls short in less than 12rds then we all know that TONY will capitalize!

[poeticlsykuac]

dITTO!! i AGREE tHATS all he needed to finish handeling Margo but if he falls short in less than 12rds then we all know that TONY will capitalize!

Maybe that and some how not allowing him to get punched, which is unavoidable against a guy that throws 987 punches with 4 minutes left to go. Especially with the amount of body punches that Margarito threw and landed making him double over from each left hook from the 7th round on.

[La Perla]

Rematch will ruin Cotto (if he is not ruined already).

First of all, Cotto had no workable gameplan. He was absolutely wrong with going to the ropes cause Tony never fades during his onslaught. Cotto also wanted 8 ounces altough he could insist on 10 ounces and NSAC would back him and not change their rules.

The truth: Cotto is simply dumb. All the observers praising his ring intelligence were blind.

He had to stay in the middle and use legs more. He had not to wait on the ropes for openings that never come, but to attack himself and use roughhose tactics - yeah, a bit of wrestling - everything to disrupt Tony's rithm.

But I don't believe he can do that, his footwork is no way Floyd's or Hop's one, he lacks raw power to wrestle competitively with Tony. He was no better than old Mosely in this department. And he lacks stamina for both working first and wrestling.

Bye, glamurous brutal boy.

yadi,yada,yadi,yada...blah,blah....Cotto will be back and avenge his lost.He needed this ass whoopin to make him a complete fighter.Tony never dominated the fight ,Cotto did but when he ran outta gas Margo did what he does best.....finish mfkas off and Cotto was no exeption.I got Cotto in a rematch

[Live Dog]

yadi,yada,yadi,yada...blah,blah....Cotto will be back and avenge his lost.He needed this ass whoopin to make him a complete fighter.Tony never dominated the fight ,Cotto did but when he ran outta gas Margo did what he does best.....finish mfkas off and Cotto was no exeption.I got Cotto in a rematch

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[IMDAZED]

yadi,yada,yadi,yada...blah,blah....Cotto will be back and avenge his lost.He needed this ass whoopin to make him a complete fighter.Tony never dominated the fight ,Cotto did but when he ran outta gas Margo did what he does best.....finish mfkas off and Cotto was no exeption.I got Cotto in a rematch

At least you admit it was an ass whupping.