Margarito receives doctor clearance, will fight Cotto on 12/3
June 15th, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: Former two time welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (28-7, 27 KO’s) has received a doctor’s approval to fight again and will be taking on WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) on December 3rd in a long awaited rematch, barring any injury pro problems from Margarito. On Tuesday, Margarito, 33, verbally agreed to fight Cotto next in a fight that won’t involve a catchweight. There was never any question that Margarito agree to fight Cotto if given the opportunity.
Cotto isn’t the same fighter either, but he at least has changed his style to avoid getting hit as much as he used to. Cotto should be able to out-box Margarito. Ideally, Margarito’s promoter Bob Arum would put Margarito in a couple of tune-up bouts before placing him back in with Cotto because it’s never a good thing to try and make a big pay per view bout involving a fighter that is coming off of a one-sided loss. There’s something about a fighter being whipped in his last fight that is kind of a repellant for boxing fans when they’re being asked to pay to see that fighter in his next bout.
The Cotto-Margarito bout will no doubt be a PPV fight, and it’s not exactly appealing to think of paying to see this fight with Margarito having lost his last fight and with the serious injury that he sustained in that bout. Margarito has lost two out of his last three fights, and hasn’t won a bout since beating a fringe contender in 2010. Margarito’s promoter Arum is perhaps gambling on boxing fans not carrying about how poorly that Margarito has been looking in the past two years and will gladly pay to see him fight again. I still think Margarito should take a couple of tune-up bouts to ensure that his eye holds together and so that he can at least get some wins under his belt before boxing fans are asked to plunk down big money to see him likely lose to Cotto.
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joker who train cotto in the fight with pacman no one it was cotto training himself that trainers was to green for anybody lookwhen he was giving cotto the pads 1 2 n move away n after the fight pacman look like the elephat man n his ear n if he had a trainer like emnuel steward like right now that fight will be diffrent
jm do you know how fast plater dry about 12 min you be running 2 if you getting loaded gloves n he lasted long this time is going to be a clean fight
bearcat you really think the bs that come out of your mouth cotto lose 2 fight n his out of the game margarito 2 lose 2 fight n he still in the game ever body put the boricuas down all the time the loose 2 fight n they out when you see this fight is going to be difrent margarito no power cotto dont have to get away n if he took majorgas punchs he going to walk thru margarito watch
cotto hit margarito with some shot but remember this is not the same when cotto his feeling the shot with plaster of curse u want to survive by moving away but the cheater dont have any power with out the plaster
this time is not mexican is platercan
their we go again…..i am talking to all you haters….we will never know if he did or not we dont have all the evidence we dint go to court with him…..he already showed and prove everyone that he is a good fighter and a good person……and even manny pacman said this was his tought fight ever……it was no walk in the park…..in the other hand with cotto he said it was ok……margarito by ko in 6 rounds
jm packy started fighting when he turned 16. he was five foot tall and weighed around a 100 pounds. by the time he was 23 he had grown to 5 foot 5. and he was fighting at 123. he was a weight drainer, so he walked around in the middle 130s. now, at 33, he weigns 145 (no weight draining). what is suspicious about that i ask? essentially he gained 10 pounds in 10 years…
jm. there is no evidence packy cheats. and he did agree to take the tests and mayweather wanted more money. (the tests are meaningless. they dont catch cheaters by the way–that scientific opinion by the way.) but there is nothing in mannys weight gains or history that would make you think he is cheating.
mannyfresh. you arent thinking it thru—cotto was getting hit with powerful, hard shots. mosley wasnt. when you are on your heels and hurt, you arent going to be hitting with power. when you are dazed. you arent going to have leverage and power. if mosley had faced those handwraps he would have been knocked out too. cotto by ko.
JM -
You do not read, I can tell. I said Margarito seemingly lost his power once the plaster was discovered. But Cotto hasn’t lost his. That being said, we saw how many times Cotto hit Margarito hit Cotto with flush shots to the head AND body.
Compare Cotto’s power, who could knock out Margarito to save his life, to Mosley’s. Mosley ended the fight with head shots. EARLY. Cotto does not have the pop in his punches to end Margarito. That’s why, again, I predict Cotto wins via decision. Not by a knockout. I hope that clears it up EVEN MORE for you, JM.
Too many brain dead people in this place!!
Bearcat Stop doing cocaine it’s afecting your brain!! Lol
Only two loses one againts a cheater with loaded gloves and the other one in a weight catch againts another cheater clearly on steriods !! Who doesn’t want to take a test for 50 millions !! Where do a write my name?? This so call fans think shttt doesn’t stink! If you got my point!!
The last thing he needs it’s power the longest he keep the Jab on tha damage eye I can’t see the fight going that far and if you saw the fight cotto didn’t attack the body as much !! You talk about cotto power what about Margaritos ?? With out loaded gloves he’s no one think about before you support cheater!!
JM -
Refer back to my post. You obviously didn’t watch the first fight. And if you say that Cotto wanting this fight more will somehow give him more power to knock Marg out, you’re just a silly goose.
Haha look at all this hater supporting a cheater hahha jokers !! I never seen cotto wanting to fight somebody so badly and I can blame him but thanks to tha other cheater pacquio this one will be easy victory for cotto with the sharp Jab I see the ref steping in and stoping the fight early cotto by ko 8!
Not sure margarito has anything left after the pacquiao loss.
I’ve been hearing the same sh*it for juanma, Calderon, & wv2 fights. How this certain guy was supposed to handle another guy. Cotto can’t handle that pressure margs brings. & he gets discouraged when he knows he’s not hurting his opponent. The only thing margs is good at is bringing pressure & taking shots. He was eating those punches cotto was throwing like m&M’s. U don’t have to be great to beat cotto, margs is gonna prove that again…. this another BIG PPV PRIZEFIGHT between Mexico & PR, & everybody knows we dont lose those, y’all can have the scrub, fighting for a haircut type of fights.
Puerco ricans need to face reality cotto got
beat down once and will get it again how
fast y’all forgot how pacman tore up cotto
they way he was beating him down like
doll just because cotto didn’t get fractured
bone doesn’t mean his head is great
remember he was hurt since rd 2
Anyone saying Cotto by KO obviously didn’t watch part 1.
Marg may have seemingly lost his power, but Cotto hasn’t. We can all agree on that. That being said, Cotto gave Marg absolutely everything he couldn’t during their first fight. And, for those who watched, Marg stormed right through those punches and smiled as if they tickled. Cotto outboxed Marg all night, but the end result was clear. His power was not nearly enough to put Marg down or stop the fight.
I’m expecting much of the same in this fight. Although I think Cotto will win, it will be via decision. Not via KO.
Margarito isnt the same fighter because he cant use loaded gloves anymore. Since he cant cheat anymore hes just a slow boxer with no defense and no power. All he has is a hard mexican head. Cotto has been in many wars but now he should be better than before because he has a trainer who knows what hes talking about. Cotto will avenge his loss and margarito will be done.
Going to be an awesome fight
bear cat you are uninteligent because margarito is not the perfect person he is a cheater he could not beat cotto fair and square so he used the loaded gloves. now your excuse might be where is the proof well simple was margarito going to use loaded gloves vs mosley yes or no? yes right ok thats my proof why would margarito use it against mosley but not agains the second most dangerous fighter after mayweather at welterweight in 2008? you dont think margarito saw how cotto beat shane and out boxed him plus remember when the gloves where confiscated they had blood in them which proves they had been used before. margarito is a cheater and should not be fighting but cotto being the more skilled fighter will win though i will admit cotto had taken a beating by the loaded gloves so this fight is a little more even now while in 2008 margarito had no chance of wining which is why the loaded gloves where used
Now both these fighters got beat by the pac man.They both took a great deal of punishment in there quest to beat Pacquiao.I think Cotto will possibly look to take out Margarito early,And if he crowds him and stays on him he will succeed.
If You Thought The Beating Margarito Took From Manny Pacquiao Is Bad Miguel Cotto Is Gonna End His Boxing Career Permanitly And Payback For What Happen 3 Years Ago And This Time He’s Not Gonna Have Former Trainer Javier Capetillo Loading Up His Handwraps Again!
i want to see margarito vs chavez jr first.
This will be a great war
Margarito has no place being in a ring. His first form of defence is his face and that is BAD NEWS.
He should go home and invest his boxing takings in a high yield bond to pay for his Parkinsons medical bill which you can expect in 5-10 years time.
He has taken too many tremendous beatings to 1) be considered as a top tier boxer 2) to be able to continue boxing.
Hopefully Cotto ends the Cheato farce.
Im not too fussed about fighters coming off of losses getting a PPV main, especially if the matchup is good. And this one is. You know theres hatred between the two, and it promises to be violent. Both guys are past their absolute best, Margarito moreso, but they’ll both give it their all, which is all you can ask for.
Margo should fight Mayorga
Hopefully justice will prevail and Cotto will get his revenge. Im hoping Cotto knocks out Margarito within 5 rounds.
Cotto wins easily. You’re deluded if you think Margarito wasn’t doctoring his wraps before the Mosley fight. Coincidence that his vaunted power that was so celebrated pre-Mosley is suddenly AWOL? Nope. He just isn’t that devastating a puncher, especially in the 2nd half of fights which is when the sting of the hardened plaster really sets in. Guaranteed money maker though, big name PR-Mexico matches always are. Look for Miguel to punish that eye badly.
I think there’s some interest here but I’m a little hesitant about watching two fighters who are past their best, knowing how amazing that first fight was. Great rematches are born from the intense desire to settle a score – Leonard-Hearsn, Benn-Eubank, Tyson-Holyfield etc. But this feels somehow like two fighters trying to get a payday. It would be difficult to call. Margarito should win considering Cotto’s dramatic loss of self-confidence but who’s to say how Margarito has been weakened by the shme of his defeat by Pacquiao, especially to lose in such a way – clearly too injured to be competitive in the last half of the fight and suviving to the end on the charity of Pacquiao’s leniancy.