Comments Thread For: When Antonio Margarito rocked Miguel Cotto

[djtmal]

Why cotto never tried to change that lost to a no contest ?

Because he got the brakes beat off him fair and square

[djtmal]

Margacheato's reign at the top was 1 and done.
Not sure how he became a person of interest when it came to May.
Margacheato had to be the least impressive of all the boogeymen.

That's only because Floyd ducked him

[Rigpig]

If Margarito hit that hard to inflict that kind of damage he did in the first fight he would’ve had one punch KO power which he didn’t. Imagine the mental advantage you have knowing you just have to sustain the other fighters punches and eventually your plaster wrapped punches will break them down. Reminds me of how meldrick Taylor looked after the Chavez fight another guy I’d bet money that used plaster.

[TheProudLunatic]

That's only because Floyd ducked him

As we all lived to witness, nothing became of your favorite boogeyman.
Was never face of boxing
P4p anything
A Complete nobody.

[rrayvez]

It’s all speculation, it seemed to me margarrito was about to stop cotto in that rematch again… like I said, it was stopped but not because of cotto. If you feel otherwise cool, I saw what I saw… and it has nothing to do with what they went on to do after that. Speaking specifically about the rematch, cotto was about to get stopped again, is what it seemed and felt like. You’re lying to yourself if you saw it otherwise… oh and cotto was winning every round of the first one too! And what happened? Cmon bro, as a man and competitor, cotto should have demanded that third! Straight up! But he didn’t and only he knows why

You’re the one lying to yourself if you think Margarito was going to stop Cotto in that rematch. There was nothing that indicated that as Margarito was still losing nearly every round, including the round it was stopped, Cotto wasn’t taking anywhere near the same punishment as the first fight, and was easily outboxing him. Very different from the first fight when you saw Cotto gradually being broken down by the 5th rounds. You’re likely looking at it through biased eyes to try and salvage what everyone else knows was a disgrace to boxing. You also make now sense saying Cotto should have demanded a trilogy when there was no reason to. The fight wasn’t close, he closed the chapter and had a fight with mayweather lined up next. He then also went on to big fights with Martinez and Canelo. Why would he be looking to further avenge a win that no one outside of a small demographic of Mexican American fans would ask for. And even most of them knew the truth.

[TheShrike]

He was cheating. Mosley later exposed him and beat him. Pacquiao broke his worthless ****** face.
What he did in the Cotto fight was criminal. He was probably also doping considering the beating he'd taken all night long.

[Nightfall]

Shane Mosley and Manny Pacquiao

[landotter]

I really only remember the rematch. Cotto was on fire in that thing. Margarito willed his body to fight, it just did not respond. Cotto was after him with extreme prejudice and the crowd was electric for him.

The narrative afterwards was "justice was done". If I was Margarito, I would have gone radio silent as well.

[Gary Coleman]

No proof of any illegal wraps for that fight. Manny gave them both a beating.

The night of the Mosley fight, the illegal wrap had an identical blood stain from the very night he fought Cotto.

It's quite obvious Margarito had been using those wraps for some time. I believe he had them in the Paul Williams fight as well, but it wasn't enough. Probably Cintron, too.

That's what happens when you're a cheat. You don't get the benefit of the doubt.

[Robi13]

Not your point exactly at all because you said the first fight and second fights were the same when they weren’t at all.

He looked uncomfortable as early as round 3 in the first one.Nothing like to the second one.

He didn’t look anywhere close to being stopped in the 2nd one unlike the first one where you could feel Cotto was struggling early despite winning the rounds. He was never in total control in the first fight unlike the second one where he was in total control for the vast majority of it.

Night and day difference.

Ok, cotto was getting walked down in the second fight just like he did to finish the first fight… that’s what I meant. He was about to get stopped again, ref saved cotto