Comments Thread For: Cotto is Outraged By The Comments From Trinidad Sr.

[MEXfistology]

Felix Sr. is right. Also, Cotto isn't from Puerto Rico. The only island he's from is Rhode Island.

Antonio Margarito is from California, Alfredo Angulo is from California, nobody considers them "American" , they're Mexican... Miguel cotto is Puerto Rican

[Robbie Barrett]

Cotto threw off his pink flip flops and took a knee when he heard the comments.

[rrayvez]

Not sure what the beef is. Tito isn't the first PR champion that became a big name but he is the first that became a big enough name to head his own PPVs as the A side. And in part, his success at msg and as a ppv star is what caused top rank to take it to the next level with cotto. These are facts, not opinions.

[MEXfistology]

Anybody who doesn't agree with cotto is just hating at this point, Trinidad sr should also point the fact that his son is broke, so much for the notion that everyone loved Tito, the fans are not gonna support you financially when it's all over.. Miguel cotto invested his money well and is the owner of several apartment complexes is Puerto Rico. Trinidad sr must be mad because Miguel cotto picked Wilfredo Gomez over his son as to who was the best Puerto Rican of all time... Sour g****s

[nycsmooth]

What total BS, inter family fighting it doesn't matter especially now with the what Puerto Rican boxing is now it's really in the doldrums and the island is floating 60% of its still without power, from the unfortunate hurricane Maria but looking forward there's not a whole lot of good guys out there from PR... they have hit a dry spell just like the US did 30 years ago...

[tjones1989]

miguel cotto is just riding on the coattails of trinidad. He should be kissing trinidads boots whenever he sees him.

[Tomasio]

Like Cotto said, there were great world champions from P.R. before Tito & there will be some after & Arum signed Cotto, Calderón & other fighters because of their amateur background, not because of what Tito did..Many fighters from P.R. have had their eras, Carlos Ortiz had his, Torres had his, so did Gomez, Camacho Tito & Cotto..True that Tito's fanbase has gone beyond any other fighter from P.R, but it did not pave the way for fighters like Cotto..Tito's father (Felix Sr) has a habit of making idiotic comments.

[chrisJS]

They are both right. The success of Tito on a PPV & live gate level helped big time because in his career he was the biggest draw in the sport after De La Hoya. Whenever you hear of a fighter coming out of Puerto Rico it's "Is he the next Tito?"

Now of course Puerto Rico had other great fighters and popular fighters before but not had the impact that Tito had. Gomez was a big deal in his day and well respected and Benitez was in some huge bouts but Tito was the biggest and most talked about guy in the sport from 1999-2001 and even his comeback he was huge coming back.

I think by far and away the greatest Puerto Rican boxer of all-time is Carlos Ortiz but even though he was born on the island and moved to NY as a teen he's perhaps considered more of a NY fighter.

[junexx]

Why?

Why couldn't Trinidad Sr control the urge to make such egotistical remark towards someone else inside the Puerto Rican boxing family? And the day before the boxers farewell fight. Come on man!

[jri9d0]

I tell you what, I really miss Tito and the energy he brought to the sport.