Originally posted by Genius~
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The fact that they requested anti-inflammatories for his shoulder before the fight means that they knew there was a problem before the fight and did not make it up afterwards. They could have handled it a lot better, but unless they planning to fake a surgery I think the injury is legit.
It may not have been as humble as say, Martinez giving Cotto credit (granted, this may also have been because he wanted future fights and did not want people don't count him out entirely) for the knockdowns. I don't disagree with that. But pretending like Cotto would have beat Martinez if he wasn't in the physical circumstances he was in is ******. It's equally dumb to immediately dismiss this injury as a possible factor in the fight. No one is ****** enough to think that with a right shoulder Pacquiao would have discovered magic in the ring against an ATG defender but it may have hampered him in the fight and just saying "no it didn't" is not a quality counter argument. Calling it an 'excuse' doesn't nullify the argument either. Pointing out how other fighters handled different injuries seems irrelevant imho.
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