Didn't you watch the fight homo?
Cotto dominated the first for the first 7 rounds.
Out boxing him, landing bigger and more accurate shots, slipping away, trading with Margarito and landing more punches.
Cotto is the one of the most fearless guys in the world to start throwing power punches and exchanging with Margarito in the 2nd round.
Everyone else was scared of Margarito and Cotto took the challenge and stepped up to the plate in the fight.
Credit is given to Cotto for that.
A vicious left hook twists Margarito's head, Exorcist style.
Cotto was landing the most devasting shots we've seen in some recent time.
Any other boxer would of been TKO's in the 2nd trading shots with Cotto or Margarito like that.
Cotto also is gets credited award for the amount of punches and accuracy he threw in the first half of the fight.
Margarito's body shots got to Cotto whenever they planted their feet.
Cotto was crushing Margarito the majority of the fight with neck snapping uppercuts, strong jabs, devastating right hands that made Tony dance and vicious left hooks.
Cotto had three punch combos that rattled Margarito.
Cotto's downfall was fighting on the ropes too much. He was trying to pick his spots on the ropes and that made him an easier target for Tony.
Cotto's defense was actually as GOOD as we could see from any boxer. Tony was hitting at 20% and Cotto was countering non-stop.
What went wrong was the fact that Miguel changed up his game plan in the 8th round and so on.
Cotto showed a lot of heart in the 6th and fought back after having his nose bloody.
Cotto was still throwing 3-5 punch combinations in the later rounds and had Margarito's left eye closed up.
Stats for Cotto
Total Punches
Landed: 280 Thrown: 655
Pct: 43%
Jabs: 101/260 39%
Power Punches: 179/395 45%
Stats for Magarito
Landed: 267/987
Pct: 27%
Jabs: 30/340 9%
Power Punches: 247/647 37%
Cotto was superior in everything, but the rate of power punches Margarito was delivering impacted the tempo of the fight.
Cotto won round 1, 2, 3,4,5,6,8,9.
Margarito won round 7, 10, 11.
Margarito applied relentless pressure while Cotto landed the cleaner blows.
Cotto just gave up and broke down...I thought my eyes would never witness anything like that. He was doing fine before...in the 11th he just did a Kermit Cintron and submitted.
I give props to Margarito, he has a steel head and devastating power that breaks his opponent down.
Margarito was getting schooled, but his chin is unbreakable. Like I said earlier, no one could take punches from Cotto like that; but Margarito was walking through the fire and eating his punches.
Margarito's only defense was his chin.
Aboslutely gutted. Cotto dominated first 6 rounds, after that Margarito size came to the front. Miguel done well, but respect to Tony.
I gained a ton ammount of respect for Margarito.
Miguel should take a vacation.
I'm sure Margarito is willing to fight a rematch in New York.
Cotto doesn't need to change much of strategy.
Conditioning needs improvement so he could of repeated what he did round 1-6.
You beat Margarito by doing what Cotto did rounds 1-6.
Today 1 or 2 losses doesn't really mean anything in these days and times as opposed to back in the days of boxing, just like in football records really don't mean sh*t anymore. Today you have WAY more superior athletes in boxing that if you fight the best your bound to lose 1 or 2, back then you didn't have nearly the number of fighters or competition as it is today.
Who cares... All the great champions in boxing history have losses on their records except for one man. And if you dont have a loss on your record then its most likely because you didnt face the best in your era. Cotto lost and now the division is wide open again. Cotto will work his way up to a Margarito fight and he will avenge this loss. Cotto is the best of this generation and he will show it.
Los mejicanos entrenan en un territorio mas alto y se les hace mas facil tener resistencia , the air that mexicans breathe is thinner than ours , that mother****er will not get tired or hurt never
What's depressed me is that Cotto Out boxed him and was punishing Margo, and Margo says Cotto hits hard but did not hurt him.
Cotto really did make Margarito look rather second rate and hackish, but, Margarito's persistence and dogged determination and his conditioning is what won him the fight. Cotto looked brilliant for the first half and then some but his conditioning left something to be desired. Whether he couldn't breathe because of his busted up nose or not, I don't know.
Margarito just didn't and wouldn't stop coming and he took a hell of a beating. That guys chin is pretty amazing. I'm not sure I'd want to be him in twenty years though. One thing I was surprised at was that Cotto didn't do much body work. It would have slowed Marg down for the latter half of the fight.
Margarito just wanted this fight more than Cotto.
Thats really what separates everything.
Cotto was winning the fight but didn't want to continue simply. He gave up his gameplan and the fight.
Cotto was naily hard accurate shots to Margarito and dominated the first half of the fight; I think it was really something MENTAL for Miguel when he saw he couldn't hurt Margarito like he has done in the past.
That may have got to him and made him lose hope in the fight.
I just wished Cotto didn't hang around the ropes so much...thats where Margarito landed his best shots.
Cotto got "winded out" as opposed to "knocked out."
As for you lance, you're a primal Manny Pacq dickrider, the only relevant boxer from the Philliputos.
You know nothing about this sport, you don't box, and you don't even follow other boxers.
You hide and lurk this site 24/7 and only come in to say something ignorant.
Is your purpose on this site is to get on my bad side? We know you can't serve any knowledge on hoops or the boxing ring. Sucks for you really.
Manny Pacq has no chance really against BIGGER fighters like De La Hoya and Hatton.
Margarito, Hatton, and De La Hoya all called out Manny Wacquiao. Now its up to his shrimp ass to put on some weight and fact power and skill level he never faced before in his career.
3 Automatic losses + retirement, actually 4 if Mayweather comes out of retirement.
Bigger usually wins unless your Roy Jones against a soft bitch like Ruiz.
Pac has no chance against A level bigger fighters. Stop riding his nuts and accept reality.