I'm not convinced Cotto won

[FaceThePain]

Good thread man, I was looking for a discussion on this topic and couldn't find one.

Here's your bottle now.

[Clegg]

no clottey won the fight.....he landed 43 more punches than cotto...how do u loose if u landed more and there was no KO?,....anyway yeah....that was bullsh**

Spot on.

Any one who knows boxing will tell you that landing 43 more punches equals a 118-110 victory. Shame he didn't land another 12 extra, or it would've been a shut out.

I dunno what the fuck was up with Lederman's card. Why was he scoring the fight round by round? Crazy bastard

[Bobby Shaw]

A judge scored it 116-111 for Cotto! 116-111? I'm gonna have to watch this again.

Clottey would have never won that fight even if he had knocked Cotto out.116-111 just shows someone had been paid to mess up this fight.

[Butterball]

There were times i thought we were gonna get another Margarito repeat..

So did I, but we didn't. At the end of the day (c. Calzaghe) if you're ****** enough to give rounds away in a close fight where you're already been KD'd then you don't deserve the win.

[Butterball]

Here's your bottle now.

**** man, you had me rolling with that comeback. How'd you think 'em up?

[jmmfan]

I had Clottey winning myself, but even so I think Cotto deserved the nod just for how he performed with that awful cut. No real problems here, definitely no robbery. Props to both fighters for sure.

[Butterball]

Spot on.

Any one who knows boxing will tell you that landing 43 more punches equals a 118-110 victory. Shame he didn't land another 12 extra, or it would've been a shut out.

I dunno what the fuck was up with Lederman's card. Why was he scoring the fight round by round? Crazy bastard

I've heard people do that, Clegg. ****ing weirdos, ain't they?

Personally I always score the fight by who looks owned the most at the end of the fight.

[baracuda]

114/113 for cotto...it would've been a draw w/o the kd....imo

[120]

116-111 was kinda exaggerated. BUT!!!

Here's the thing, Cotto WAS the defending champion, after the cut(which was a REALLy bad cut btw) he changed tactics yet continued fighting when he didn't have to. He could have simply said he couldn't continue and it would have gone to the cards and Cotto would have won there and then.

Now, BECAUSE he decided to continue fighting 'till the end the judges will give him a plus just for that. They KNOW that he can't simply engage in order to protect the cut. A judge won't just look for one thing, in this case being an aggressive fighter coming forward. Cotto WAS getting points because he was protecting the cut and was continuing to engage. Like in the round where cotto had clottey in the ropes and was landing really good, where it even seemed like clottey was dizzy. he wasn't even throwing anything back so u can count that 10-8. A judge will look for many different things, much more when u are a champion and are fighting tactically.

[120]

another thing is THE FACT, that Clottey lost the championship rounds and started acting up. Cotto won the fight, it was very close but he won it because of the KD on the first.