Cotto vs. Margarito: After I beat Miguel people will see they were wrong about me – Antonio
September 21st, 2011
By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) intends on changing the minds of boxing fans about whether he wore loaded handwraps in his previous fight against Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) by whipping him on December 3rd in their rematch at the Madison Square Garden in New York.
Margarito was caught with loaded hand wraps before his fight against Shane Mosley in January 2009. Margarito subsequently was suspended from boxing for over a year until his promoter Bob Arum shopped around and found a state, Texas, that was willing to renew Margarito’s license.
Margarito has since fought Manny Pacquiao last year and took a horrendous beating in a 12 round decision loss that left Margarito with a cracked right orbital bone and damage to his right eye that required multiple surgeries to repair.
Margarito has since been cleared to fight and will be in the ring for the first time since then against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto in a fight that will be fought at a catchweight of 153 lbs. Cotto originally wanted a catchweight of 150 lbs, but gave in to the pressure from Margarito’s management to change it to only 153, one pound under the 154 pound junior middleweight limit. Margarito doesn’t understand Cotto’s reasoning for the catchweight, saying that if he’s not willing to fight at the full weight he needs to go back down to the welterweight class.
Even before Margarito’s injuries from the Pacquiao fight, he took a lot of punishment in his previous fight against Cotto and only really control of the fight in the 10th round. Before that, Cotto did a great job of out-boxing with movement and hit and run attacks. However, the constant movement took it’s toll on Cotto, leaving him with little energy by the 10th.
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I just love how Mexican fans, of Mexican boxers, consider other boxers run, when they outbox their Mexican fighters. Margarito, clearly out boxed, for at east 7 rounds, in the 1st Cotto/Margarito fight. Yes, Margarito won, we all know that. Margarito asks Cotto, if he is afraid to fight him. If Cotto is afraid to fight Margarito, then Margarito must be afraid to fight
the guys in the next weight class. Yes, the one he avoids. Look at his height, compared to Cotto’s. He struggles to make this weight, considering his height, so that he usually has a reach advantage. Also, a weight advantage, since he is naturally heavier, when he loads up on those carbs, after the wiegh in, he is much heavier. Hehehe..
We have to b realistic margarito will win a very close fight but will eventually get tierd of running
This will be another great fight but i believe Cotto has the upper hand Margarito has taken serious beatings his last few fights, the gloves won’t be concrete, and Cotto is in his backyard this time around. It will be another great Puerto Rico VS. Mexico fight! I already bought my plane tickets and the fight tickets. I am not missing this one. It is going to be a great night of boxing.
antonio margarito is one of the boxers who have a huge heart like pacquiao,morales,penalosa,marquez,arce,katsidis..this guys dont know the meaning of the word ”give up”
go tijuana tornado!! tony will win this one…tony is a great fighter…with lots of heart..even in a match when winning is impossible, he wouldnt run…he will keep on charging…that is called heart!! no retreat no surrender tijuana tornado..unlike cotto, running for his life…a good boxer but not know for his heart…you see, in boxing, heart is everything…i go for tijuana tornado.
cotto is slow to run away like manny simple as that he will get destroyed.
cotto aint fast enogh like manny to run away from the tornado he will get cought, plus them mexicans dont need two eyes to put on a show look at erik morales and i belive they are from the same town tijuana. cotto will get destroyed the upper cut will do the trick, if mayorga would of had that he would of k.o’d kneeguell wargarito wins this one in brutal fashion. if you think wargarito doesnt hit hard ask manny, he did get 2 cracked ribs google it. thats why he vacated and said his health was in danger at 154 and cotto is just as small.
I would like to see the winner ti fight Martinez at 154 lbs.
Hey 666 you know noting about boxing. Cotto will ko and retire that no good margarito. All cotto has to do is hit him in the eye and it over. Cotto will win.
Margo a mex of honor and valor and trust. a good mex clean cut and greasy.
all i know is that cotto is gonna get his revenge he has been waiting for this
Margarito can KO Cotto in the first round, and that can change what happen before the Mosley fight. He was caught cheating and that it! But I have to admit that is the fight that the boxing fans want to see. Hope that this fight dont dissapoint.
i hate to admit it but i think margarito is gonna win again cotto has not looked good in his last few fights but i hope im wrong
Well lets see how this plays out without the handwraps
Margachito karma is alive and well,What goes around comes around,Pacman destroyed you…And you tried to come in overweight.Thinking you would out muscle the little man,Dude your pathetic.But it is a interesting fight.I still say it,With out plaster your career is a diaster.
I think 666 and Dave smoke the same crack
Dude is just pathetic. He has NO power and never did. All that vaunted power was because the guy was punching opponents with tampered wraps. Of course, Arum has no problems with promoting that kind of sh1t.
Cotto did outbox him and will again just this time Margarito wont have an concrete advantage
and will get knocked out
Hit and run? Out boxed?
Cotto was running for his life the whole fight
Then gave up just like victor ortiz did vat maidana.
I like Margarito. He has balls. With the injury he sustained a lot of fighters would have walked away from the sport. But he is back! Hope he gets some good dollars for this bout!
666 smokes crack
Antonio doesn’t have wraps or the eye of the tiger he’s the one who will retire after this fight
its time to retire cotto and put him out of his misery, margarito wins this one by k.o within six rounds no more.