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Great fight. Adamek had a "concrete" chin. There would have been a riot if Adamek got robbed of the decision. There are a lot of Polish here in New Jersey.
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It was a great fight. I don't know about FOTY though, but that's up to debate.Comment
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I always try to strip away the significance of a fight in my mind to best see the quality of a fight. Some people move fights up because they were more meaningful, and thats fine, but it seems to me that every year there was a very good fight that gets positioned higher than it deserved because of how significant it was to the division and one that gets left out despite being a better fight because it wasn't significant at all. Last year Pavlik/Taylor, a fight with several dull rounds, was called a fight of the year candidate because of the significance when really less than half of it was good. Codrington/Bika was dismissed because it wasn't significant at all despite being a tremendous fight.
This year Cotto/Margarito is getting that bump for what it meant to the welterweight division. That is fine, but it doesn't change how good of a fight it was. It was indeed a very good fight, better than Taylor/Pavlik was, but we've now seen several better fights and some people are still trying to argue it as fight of the year. Vasquez/Marquez 3 still would have been an amazing fight if it was the opener to Shobox between two unknowns instead of the anticipated main event it was on Showtime's flagship series. Mtagwa/Villa was amazing despite being totally irrelevant, and Adamek/Cunningham is amazing in the backyard without the hoopla of the Ring belt and the Versus card. If Cotto/Margarito was the same exact fight but instead was the opener to an HBO ppv between unknowns, the crew wouldn't even have paid complete attention to it.
So how do I rank them?
1) Vasquez/Marquez 3
2) Mtagwa/Villa
3) Adamek/Cunningham
4) Margarito/CottoComment
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