Comments Thread For: DiBella: Never Thought Cotto Would Be Like That at 160

[skillz321]

Right cotto you ve beat a Martinez who s way past his best, both knees damaged which became evident in round 1, and an old man. Now cotto fight GGG or Chavez if you think ur a topic ke weight.

Basically fight a legitimate middle weight who's not a cripple.

Three different posts, same comment....are you really trying to troll this hard?

[skillz321]

Martinez has 28 KO's not 38.

Cotto did what he was supposed to do to an unhealthy fighter. It's sort of like Pac-DLH, yes Pac was going up 2 weight classes, was underdog and Roach/Ariza were calling it that DLH is done, old/can't pull the trigger and can't make 147 healthy but Pacquiao still got massive props at the time. But then the win looked strange when DLH came in on fight night at 147lbs and retired after the fight.

In this case Roach called Martinez old, done and unhealthy, yet Cotto was underdog and coming up in weight. Cotto getting massive props but Martinez will subsequently retire and people saw how bad the state of his knees were. The win is very popular now but it will diminish once Martinez retires, which I believe is now.

I will agree with part of your statement....Roaches comments about the other fighters....but, I also don't believe the knee was an issue until Sergio got rocked....it would not have been an issue until fatigue or just trying to stand up came into play....once Cotto rocked him several times in the first round, the knee was an issue because he had to put more pressure on it....that's just the way it went this fight....I do believe Cotto could do this to anyone in this division though....GGG has the best chance just because of shear power....but not boxing skill

[Dat]

Right cotto you ve beat a Martinez who s way past his best, both knees damaged which became evident in round 1, and an old man. Now cotto fight GGG or Chavez if you think ur a topic ke weight.

Basically fight a legitimate middle weight who's not a cripple.

Can I offer you some strawberries from my (Madison Sq) garden to mix with your sour g****s salad?

[radioraheem]

Martinez has 28 KO's not 38.

Cotto did what he was supposed to do to an unhealthy fighter. It's sort of like Pac-DLH, yes Pac was going up 2 weight classes, was underdog and Roach/Ariza were calling it that DLH is done, old/can't pull the trigger and can't make 147 healthy but Pacquiao still got massive props at the time. But then the win looked strange when DLH came in on fight night at 147lbs and retired after the fight.

In this case Roach called Martinez old, done and unhealthy, yet Cotto was underdog and coming up in weight. Cotto getting massive props but Martinez will subsequently retire and people saw how bad the state of his knees were. The win is very popular now but it will diminish once Martinez retires, which I believe is now.

Here's the thing. Guys like you would have legs to stand on if you didn't predict/vote that Martinez would win! But because the opposite happened, now you guys are talking so much about Martinez being unhealthy, blaming the loss on that. And that his knees were real bad, as if the blows Cotto were landing had no effect, and Martinez was just a pillow that needed a little push just to fall down.

The same guys who predicted Martinez would win, are the same guys talking about Cotto did what he was supposed to do to an unhealthy fighter.

[bigjavi973]

It was a historical win of course. Cotto won the first Ring title of his career and is the first Puerto Rican boxer to win titles in 4 weight classes. He's a top 5 ATG in PR's boxing history books, probably top 3.

But like the DLH win for Pac, people will analyze it more as the months/years go by and the win will become less impressive. Now if Martinez makes a comeback and goes on to beat some Middleweights like Golovkin, Quillin, Solimon, Lee, the win would definitely look great. As of right now, Martinez's next fight is retirement, unless he is planning on having his next fight in a wheelchair or with crutches.

GGG is a good fighter but his chin is questionable in my opinion. Qullin is a complete hypejob. Gabe rosado was giving it to quillin before they stopped the fight

[GRUSTLER]

Cotto/Canelo next if Canelo beats Lara. If not Cotto vs Lara. All good matches.

[livershot73]

Lmfao at the ppl using the knee as the excuse after saying this was a mismatch and Cotto was going to get knocked out!

I was one of them man...I actually didn't get to watch the fight because of a prior commitment... but after reading the reports and seeing the pics....damn!...great win for Cotto! I thought Martinez would make him do the chicken dance, but f#ck was I ever wrong!...cong**** to Cotto....PR has a champion again!

[BattleAxePurist]

Cotto came in at 155.

[Ringlife]

I'm with you Lou I didn't think he would look like that either.

[PRBOXINGCOTTO]

Thats what sergio gets for not showing respect cotto does his talking in the ring and he destroyed the best middleweight easy and remember back when cotto was undefeated arum brought up the possibility of cotto facing pavlik and cotto would have beat the crap out of him too