Was Margarito-Cotto the new Chavez-Taylor?

[Ishy Aytan]

When was Taylor's prime?

He was never the same after the Pavlik losses. Come on.

Margarito and Cotto were at their best when they fought. Taylor was at his best between the Bhop and Pavlik fights.

[Thread Stealer]

i should refrase my opinion on the chavez fight not a one sided beatdown but you though taylor was going to win and hold on i never felt that in the cotto fight around the 7 round i was drinking heavily and just amazed in maragritos chin. And knew it was a matter of time because no man can just keep doing what cotto was doing. Did he quit ahhhhhhhhhhhh no yeah no lol he just couldn't do it and said f it i'll live to fight another day. NOt ashamed at all of what cotto did that night. Both warriors put on a war and people on here should just take it as it was a welterweight classic.

Taylor wasn't shot after Chavez either. At least not immediately. It took more tough fights for him to go from "declined but still very good" to "shot".

Just revisionist history no doubt influenced by HBO documentaries.

There's some similarities. Another fight with some similarities is Corrales-Freitas.

Like Cotto, Freitas was using his legs a lot. Taylor not as much, he spent more time in the pocket and outworked Chavez with an incredible amount of punches thrown.

[TheManchine]

He was never the same after the Pavlik losses. Come on.

Margarito and Cotto were at their best when they fought. Taylor was at his best between the Bhop and Pavlik fights.

He sure didn't look at his best while fighting Spinks and Ouma.

I think its wrong to say "Taylor was nowhere near his prime when he fought Froch".

In Taylor's two prior fights to Froch he performed far better than he did at any stage during what you think was his prime.

Was the Taylor that fought Froch, Pavlik and Lacy really that much worse than the one who was struggling with a blown up welterweight and junior middleweights?

[Animalistic]

Did Chavez use plaster? If not is not the same...