Cotto-Mosley was proves that Cotto's chin problems were...

[Fox McCloud]

This is Cotto's last 3 fights...Gomez, quit vs. Margarito, Jennings.

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I'm not even a Cotto fan and I get the reason he did all of these:

Gomez - A doubleheader on HBO designed to make Cotto and Margarito look good to build up to a fight between the two. Keep in mind he was coming off beating Zab Judah and Shane Mosley... you do get a fight off once in a while I think.

Margarito - Battered to the point of submission. I don't think him "quitting" means anything, because he was obviously just going to be stopped if he continued after the second knockdown. He didn't have the energy to defend himself. Anyway, I don't understand the big deal about quitting... he gave it his all, it wasn't enough, and he was obviously not going to win at that point. He was thoroughly battered and it went a lot of rounds. I don't really see how he robbed the fans of anything.

Jennings - After a brutal battering from Margarito, he took a fight to build his confidence back and get him back into the game. Plus, it was an easy shot at a belt to put himself back in the picture of importance at 147.

I mean, really, I'd take the pepsi challenge of Cotto's last three opponents (keep in mind they are sandwiched by Judah, Mosley and Clottey) against Mayweather's run at 140. Like I said... everyone has some bad fights on their record.

[Pullcounter]

likely caused by his weight problems at 140. Although he was stunned once at 147 by Zab Judah, it was a perfect uppercut to the jaw.

In the Mosley fight, he took huge right hand after huge right hand without being hurt at all.

The Mosley-Margarito fight showed that Mosley still has some thunder left in his punches.

Even Margarito-Cotto proves the strength of Cotto's chin, because it wasn't like he was put down on a hard punch that had him on ***** street... he was just out of energy and didn't have the strength to defend himself any more.

Sorry for all the Cotto-Mosley threads, but I just watched it for the first time last night, and I thought of quite a few things to say about the fight.

its not cotto's chin that fails him at 147, its his stamina.

[Fox McCloud]

its not cotto's chin that fails him at 147, its his stamina.

Outside of being beaten to death by Margarito, I haven't seen any lapses of stamina at 147 by Cotto.

[Deja_Vous]

Wasnt weight problems and even if it was it just proves he was draining himself to have an advantage against much smaller guys.

Uh oh

Somebody went there.

[Pullcounter]

I'm not even a Cotto fan and I get the reason he did all of these:

Gomez - A doubleheader on HBO designed to make Cotto and Margarito look good to build up to a fight between the two. Keep in mind he was coming off beating Zab Judah and Shane Mosley... you do get a fight off once in a while I think.

yeah, but gomez as a tune up for margo is pretty ******. cotto should've fought baldomir for the tune up.

Margarito - Battered to the point of submission. I don't think him "quitting" means anything, because he was obviously just going to be stopped if he continued after the second knockdown. He didn't have the energy to defend himself. Anyway, I don't understand the big deal about quitting... he gave it his all, it wasn't enough, and he was obviously not going to win at that point. He was thoroughly battered and it went a lot of rounds. I don't really see how he robbed the fans of anything.

yeah, cotto gave his 100% but it wasn't good enough. can't hate cotto for that, margo was just the better man.

Jennings - After a brutal battering from Margarito, he took a fight to build his confidence back and get him back into the game. Plus, it was an easy shot at a belt to put himself back in the picture of importance at 147.

yeah, he deserved this.

I mean, really, I'd take the pepsi challenge of Cotto's last three opponents (keep in mind they are sandwiched by Judah, Mosley and Clottey) against Mayweather's run at 140. Like I said... everyone has some bad fights on their record.

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[Pullcounter]

Outside of being beaten to death by Margarito, I haven't seen any lapses of stamina at 147 by Cotto.

you kidding me?

he ran the last 4 rounds against mosley.

he always turns southpaw because his left hand gets tired.

many of cotto's fight, you don't notice it because some of his opponents are already battered by the bodywork.

trust me, cotto gases. in the margo fight, it was too blatantly apparent to ignore.

Uh oh

Somebody went there.

to be fair a lot of boxers do this.

[Fox McCloud]

yeah, but gomez as a tune up for margo is pretty ******. cotto should've fought baldomir for the tune up.

yeah, cotto gave his 100% but it wasn't good enough. can't hate cotto for that, margo was just the better man.


yeah, he deserved this.


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To be fair, I don't think Gomez was designed to be a tune-up... more of a hype builder for the PPV in July. At the same time, Cintron and Cotto fight nothing alike, so there is no reason why Margarito would fight tin man Cintron to get ready for Cotto.

That doubleheader seriously was a business move by HBO to really hype the fight between Margarito and Cotto up.

[Fox McCloud]

you kidding me?

he ran the last 4 rounds against mosley.

he always turns southpaw because his left hand gets tired.

many of cotto's fight, you don't notice it because some of his opponents are already battered by the bodywork.

trust me, cotto gases. in the margo fight, it was too blatantly apparent to ignore.

Hmmm, I actually saw him doing better once he started boxing against Mosley in the later rounds. I thought it was a strategy shift more than a move to save and conserve energy.