Comments Thread For: Cotto Beats Down Martinez, Makes History at MSG

[befirst81]

I was wrong..

[assiong]

Only thing it exposed is Martinez knees i like Cotto but I'm being real...it makes Floyd look like TBE...and to this pacfraud fights against bradly and rios shows us he was roiding you beating bigger guys but cant knock down bradly or rios ..PACJUICE....common sense

I shouldn't be replying to your post, but your idiocy need to be address. What PAC got to do with the topic at this moment? Clearly you are a fan boy of P_SSY "wear a pair of pillows or else", you know who. We just witness a history made by a puerto rican fighter and you brought up your hate on PAC in the middle of this thread? Log off, put your left hand to your throat and choke yourself with it while slap your face with your right hand. Do it, do it now...

[Lords]

I dont understand why you are acting like Cotto is packing the same power he had at 140-147. This is the same cotto that couldnt hurt Trout or Mayweather at 154.

When has Martinez ever shown a bad chin? He has always shown bad balance problems. Like in the Pavlik and Macklin fights. Cotto's knock downs were clearly the result of that on top of the fact Martinez has a busted right knee and couldnt even bend them.

This is a guy whos style literally relies on his legs.

Cotto left his left-hook in the back seat vs Trout and Marweather. Freddy says Cotto's a fool for it. I'd agree if the fight were in the LATER rounds that possibly his legs could have been the difference in the fight but not in the first round, throw that excuse out the window. Sergio has never had good defense with his hands down and Freddy's game plan exposed it.

[EAAE]

You guys lets be honest. Re-watch and look how his knee really took away from the Martinez we are all used to seeing. His lefts were not even close to full power, not even close. Cotto did what he was supposed to do to a less than 100% Martinez, therefore congratulations to him. I really hate how the majority of fans will place an asterisk (including myself, I can't help it) next to Cotto's win because Martinez was not healthy in this fight whatsoever.

Thanks for showing us that but it shows that before the first left hook that landed, Sergio was moving fine, i'm not saying that he doesn't have knee problems but if they were to surface it would have been in the later rounds. Fact is Cotto hurt him very early in the fight and he just couldn't recover, other fact is that when you have been hurt that bad from 3 KD's your legs just don't work that well, it would've happened to a 100% fit fighter, notice again when Sergios head started clearing up, he started moving better again and his punches had a bit more behind them, but then he got hurt to the head again and his legs went again plus by that stage he was getting tired too. I must STRESS that i know Sergio went into the fight with bad knees, but the real damage was done early because of head shots that took Sergios legs away.

[thatdudespits]

Couldn't agree more . People saying Martinez was exposed . Really ? He looked a few steps above a cripple walking with a cane .

Excuses are like *******s.... With the injuries he found a way against murray... Cotto is just a completely different challenge for a guy like Martinez. I knew Cotto's speed would bother Martinez and it was apparent as he got there first every time.

[carlog]

My gut feeling was that cotto was gonna pull it of, but man is it a sad site to see a champion fall.

[radioraheem]

Martinez' trainer was begging him to continue one more round, and Martinez didn't want to, so then the trainer pretended like it was his decision to stop the fight.

The left hand early turned Martinez's legs to spaghetti...

Obviously, Mayweather wouldn't dare to move up to MW to fight Cotto in a rematch...

If this was another fighter, like Ortiz, they'd be crucifying him saying that he QUIT.

[assiong]

Floyd Sr thought Roach was Cotto's trainer vs his son. This guy can't be taken serious.

Damn, PAC and Freddie tandem gives nightmares to the father and son? Anyway, back tot the topic. That was a great win by Cotto and Freddie, congratulations in advance for Freddie to win his 7th TOTY.

[fightfanjoe]

Please make sure you SIG all of them! Every single last one of them!

They were crucifying Cotto the way they were crucifying Garcia before he fought Matthysse. Saying Cotto is gonna get murdered, he's way in over his head, etc, etc.

Exactly! This felt like the Garcia-Mathessye build up, with so many people saying Cotto had no shot. That, in combination with Cotto being the technically sound fighter of the two, made me feel Cotto had a great shot. Jeez that was awesome!

[PEPE213]

Thanks for showing us that but it shows that before the first left hook that landed, Sergio was moving fine, i'm not saying that he doesn't have knee problems but if they were to surface it would have been in the later rounds. Fact is Cotto hurt him very early in the fight and he just couldn't recover, other fact is that when you have been hurt that bad from 3 KD's your legs just don't work that well, it would've happened to a 100% fit fighter, notice again when Sergios head started clearing up, he started moving better again and his punches had a bit more behind them, but then he got hurt to the head again and his legs went again plus by that stage he was getting tired too. I must STRESS that i know Sergio went into the fight with bad knees, but the real damage was done early because of head shots that took Sergios legs away.

Agreed, Martinez himself said Cotto caught him cold and couldn't recover from the shock. The delicate knee did not help though, that's a factor that cannot be ignored. You can tell how he walks to his corner late in the fight, I have a right knee problem myself and I know the tendencies I do to prevent the pain from increasing when I'm exercising. He sort of floats the whole leg so he won't strain it as much. I agree though, Cotto's bullrush caused everything to crumble.