Antonio Margarito Barely Slips Away from the Great Cotto!
Cotto ahead in judge’s cards gave “No Personality” Margarito a boxing lesson before falling to the 5′11 middleweight fighting at welterweight
Cotto should be very proud of his performance: Puerto Rico and most Latin Americans proud of Cotto
Margarito didn’t look good, he bullied his way to a TKO win by his middleweight strength
The great welterweight division demands Floyd Mayweather to teach Margarito a lesson: you don’t hit while the other boxer is down
Margarito gets lucky again
After years of whining his heart out, it seems that the incessant cries of injustice from the Margarito camp may finally come to a close, only to be replaced by some equally unnecessary pouting about how even as a champion Antonio Margarito is being “ducked” by fighters that “fear” him.
“No Personality” Margarito hits Cotto while he is down
Margarito managed to filch away the title from the previously undefeated Miguel Cotto in round 11, after having his barely-there boxing skills ridiculed by his more educated adversary for almost the entire fight, landing about 20% of his wild arm-swinging per round (to Cotto’s 50-70%) and constantly falling for Cotto’s very obvious rope-a-dope strategy. After landing a few low blows of frustration in rounds three and four, Margarito danced around scrambling to land while Cotto wore him down in skillful flurries. After almost being dropped in round 9, Margarito came back to abuse of his larger frame and deteriorate Cotto’s stamina with body punches. Cotto willingly went on one knee in the eleventh to end the match.
This victory for the sour-faced Mexican heralds in a new era for the welterweight division- with Mayweather “retired” and Cotto eliminated, the division has lost all its charm, and those in the know will look towards Joe Calzaghe and the middleweights for excitement from now on. The association between the Margarito victory and the Castro celebrations of the 26th of July attack on the Moncada Barracks is still unclear as of this moment.
Are you kidding? Miguel got his ass kicked.
We knew this would happen. Margarito is a warrior, Miguel is a boxer.
sounds like sour grapes to me!
Hey I am with Joe and Mario here Frances: it reads like “sour grapes”!
Margarito looks like “sour grapes” all the time, so sorry if my writing reflects his terrible attitude.
Also, I didn’t write any of that nonsense in caps about “80-year-old McCain” Mayweather, Mr. Editor-in-Chief.
Two judges had the fight 96-94 Margaro y el otro 95-95
Margaro won hands down
I had it 96-95 Cotto before the stoppage, if anyone cares
what a moron analysis of the fight… dude — try to hide your Puerto Rican bias a little? Cotto got beaten like a salvation army drum in the 2nd half of the fight… It was not close — He got hurt in Round 7, Round 10 and then went down like a sissy in round 11….. he doesnt even have the guts to stand up and take the punishment or be knocked down by a punch… Cotto is a woman