"My 2000 Olympic victory over Cotto was more than a step toward winning the gold medal, it is also a blueprint for winning the world title on June 11 and spoiling his Madison Square Garden debut." --Muhammad Abdullaev
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Abdullaev (15-1, 12 KOs), the 2000 Olympic gold medalist, challenges undefeated WBO jr. welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, 23-0 (19 KOs), June 11 in Cotto's Madison Square Garden debut. The fight will be seen at 10 PM ET/PT on HBOs "Boxing After Dark," and marks the first time in the show's nine-year history it has ever done a show from The Garden's big arena. Abdullaev is the last man to defeat Cotto -- at the 2000 Olympics.
Tuesday, May 31 2005
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This guy must be jokin, he "beat" Cotto cuz Cotto didn't got any point on the body punches that he landed...Pinto beat Cotto twice in the amateurs and we know what happened..
So he was punching Abdullaev to the body? He didn't fall out like Pinto did either; you may be right but Abdullaev's loss seems uncharacteristic for the guy I witnessed fight several times on tv.
I think there's avery good chance of it. Everyone suddenly jumped off his bandwagon due to his "KO" loss. That guy wasn't out and if he spoke English better would have finished and won that fight.
Yeah, yeah. 10 seconds don't go by faster in English than in any other language. Also, I'm sure he can still see the ref's fingers as he counts, right? There is no language-barrier excuse for getting KO'd.
But, don't sleep on this kid, either. He has 12 KO's in 16 fights, that's a great %. The kid has power.
I watched the amateur fight between these two and even though Abdulaev won, I was more impressed with Cotto. Cotto is faster and stronger than Abdulaev. Cotto can rip three punches off before Abby can counter.
Cotto is bigger, stronger, faster and hits harder... he'll get his shine back when he KO's Abdulaev in impressive fashion.
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