I just rewatched Cotto-Margarito

[DARKSEID]

God.. what a tragedy..

Cotto came in so strong, on top of the world, with absolute confidence that nobody could beat him..

and round after round, i'm seeing Margarito land nothing strong, and nothing worse than cotto has ever seen.. yet, he's starting to break down unlike he ever has before.. his face is starting to tear and swell, and it doesn't make sense..

in the later rounds he just took punch after punch and tried to hang in there, but he was getting pummeled.. until finally he couldn't take anymore.

The great lion that cotto was died that night, and Margarito killed it with those loaded gloves.

I hope manny destroys this guy and forces him into retirement.

[FloydTBE]

God.. what a tragedy..

Cotto came in so strong, on top of the world, with absolute confidence that nobody could beat him..

and round after round, i'm seeing Margarito land nothing strong, and nothing worse than cotto has ever seen.. yet, he's starting to break down unlike he ever has before.. his face is starting to tear and swell, and it doesn't make sense..

in the later rounds he just took punch after punch and tried to hang in there, but he was getting pummeled.. until finally he couldn't take anymore.

The great lion that cotto was died that night, and Margarito killed it with those loaded gloves.

I hope manny destroys this guy and forces him into retirement.

Yeah.
Id say that cotto dominated the first 4 rounds, landing the bigger shots and uusing the ring better.
Margarito requires his oppoennets to be static for him to connect with them, this is where cotto let the figth get away, he was too static mid-late rounds.

[starkiller]

Did Cotto become static because he was being hit by plaster that was getting harder with each round slowing Cotto down?

[..WaRSpencE..]

Uh oh!..

Margarito's groupies in ...3....2......1


*hides*

[Clutch93]

*applause* Soon enough I will get the pleasure of watching Margo-bricks be destroyed and pummeled once again. As if Mosley didn't make it sweet enough already.

[-PANDA-]

God.. what a tragedy..

Cotto came in so strong, on top of the world, with absolute confidence that nobody could beat him..

and round after round, i'm seeing Margarito land nothing strong, and nothing worse than cotto has ever seen.. yet, he's starting to break down unlike he ever has before.. his face is starting to tear and swell, and it doesn't make sense..

in the later rounds he just took punch after punch and tried to hang in there, but he was getting pummeled.. until finally he couldn't take anymore.

The great lion that cotto was died that night, and Margarito killed it with those loaded gloves.

I hope manny destroys this guy and forces him into retirement.

u cant be serious....
cotto was outboxing the **** out of tony until tony landed that uppercut to his chest in the first round which physically pushed cotto back...cotto started picking his shots after that

did u notice how much force the little punches tony landed seemed to have? cotto has been up against some big guys but that was just unreal...

its one of the reasons panda believes tony probably used plaster that night

[#1Assassin]

Did Cotto become static because he was being hit by plaster that was getting harder with each round slowing Cotto down?

cotto has never been great at moving around the ring, he always has to set his feet to punch leaving brawl willing fighters like margarito a chance to land. we never seen cotto move for an entire fight or be under that kind of pressure neither, margarito set a high pace and cotto was theone forced to use up more energy. also margarito was smart enough to go to the body which cotto abandoned for some reason.

margarito probably wore plaster that night and if so that obviously played a part in what happened, but ppl need to stop blaiming everything on the possible use of plaster and acting like cotto would have won the fight had tony been clean. the truth is cotto fought a bad fight regardless, he got big headed and forgot what kind of boxing brought him to the top. bad strategy and stylistic matchup on cottos part is the reason he lost. plaster if used "just" made it more bloody, it ruined cotto but he lost the fight on his own due to a poor gameplan.

[ChiTown2Diego]

You'll have to rewatch again. Margarito is throwing and landing lots of hard shots to the body, arms and hips starting in round 2. Cotto is on the receiving end of some serious pressure and has a bloody nose at end of the round. I think your wrong about it being nothing worse than what cotto had seen up to that point. But your definitely right... the lion died that night

[SirTomJones]

Margarito won because he broke Cotto's heart.

Took Miguel's balls and stomped on them infront of his children and wife.

[GoogleMe]

I don't say that Margarito was not loaded. But some people are slow starters and very well conditioned. You start hitting your opponent as he slows down.