Miguel Cotto Gets a Gift in Madison Square Garden

[streetthrowback]

Clottey is known for headbutts. On purpose or not.....

Cotto didnt even throw Clottey to the ground. He shook him off and Clottey slipped and fell awkwardly. The punch in the back of the head definetly didnt seem intentional and Clottey blew it out of proportion again.

roger that

[Jim Jeffries]

What a terribly biased article! The knock-down was the difference. The margin of victory on two of the cards was certainly greater than it should have been, but the victory went to the right boxer. Clottey stopped fighting in the last two rounds and therefore has only himself to blame for the loss. But I do agree that 116-111 was ridiculous, and 115-112 was also too wide a margin. It should have been one round to Cotto or two at the most.

It was a really great fight, in which both fighters showed tremendous courage - why couldn't the writer of the article celebrate that instead of whinging about a result that was fair, even if the margin of it was not?

Well since 114-113 would've been 6 rds a piece. How you give Cotto "one round or two at the most" without ending up with at least 115-112?

[Senor Boxeo]

Not a gift

Not a gift.Professional Boxing is scored round to round not COMPUBOX. When Clottey won a round it was damn obvious. When Cotto won a round it was not as spectacular,but a round won none the less

[Del Coqui]

By T.K. Stewart - NEW YORK – Let's say this right off the top – Miguel Cotto received a gift tonight.

Peering through blood and with a hideous gash that ripped open his right eyebrow in the third round, courtesy of an unintentional clash of heads, Cotto obtained the split-decision win on the cards of two of the three official judges.

Judge John McKaie saw it 115-112 for the defending champion, Don Trella was way off base at 116-111 also for Cotto, whereas Tom Miller had it 114-113 for Clottey. This writer scored it 115-113 for Clottey.

CompuBox saw Clottey landing more punches (222-179) and he had the edge in power punches (168-124). Cotto landed one more jab (55-54).

There was a lot of talk over the weekend about this fight. No matter where you went or who you asked, everybody had an opinion about who was going to win and who was going to lose. With the annual Boxing Writers Association of America dinner held here on Friday and the big fight on Saturday there was no shortage of boxing types kicking around town. [details]

compu box = two old men pressing two buttons whenever they see a "clean" shot, on replays you saw a lot of those shots were getting blocked. compubox does not say which shots were more effective than others, since when has compubox decided a fight. that publisher is an idiot.

[The Surgeon]

This was no gift, a hard fight as expected where the man from Cagus PR was that little bit better

[Xcusemymood]

LOl at the writer. Cotto won that fight. 115-111
Cotto Won rounds 1,3,4,6,,9,11,12, with rounds 1 and 8 being 10-8 rounds.


Lol at anybody saying this was a gift descicion!!!!!!!!!

Well we know whos biased in here.....

[The Surgeon]

compu box = two old men pressing two buttons whenever they see a "clean" shot, on replays you saw a lot of those shots were getting blocked. compubox does not say which shots were more effective than others, since when has compubox decided a fight. that publisher is an idiot.

Absaloutley G Compubox is way over rated peeps put too much stock into that ****

[handler000]

The fight could have gone either way. I just want to say that Cotto's fans should think twice before calling Mayweather a runner when Cotto clearly ran when he had no stamina left. Reminded me of 1999 when DLH ran from Trinidad the last 3rds.

[Del Coqui]

Absaloutley G Compubox is way over rated peeps put too much stock into that ****

whats up buddy! ppl think compubox is actually a reliable punch count number and dont know all the intangibles, it does help however to bull **** some fans.

[Del Coqui]

The fight could have gone either way. I just want to say that Cotto's fans should think twice before calling Mayweather a runner when Cotto clearly ran when he had no stamina left. Reminded me of 1999 when DLH ran from Trinidad the last 3rds.

dont speak about all cotto fans, some know the difference