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Some perspective on Miguel Cotto

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by remo_gaggi (U4425106) 27 July 2008
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Please guys, let's not get carried away like Steve Bunce here....

Miguel Cotto can still be just as good as everyone always thought he was. He just came up against a great fighter, too resilient and strong for him. Cotto can learn from that fight and come back, perhaps even better in a year or two. People need to not get carried away with this (sadly too british) idea that undefeated records are vital for great fighters. it's prize fighting....if you take the risks and make the good fights you're going to pay at some point. Leonard, Hearns, Robinson, Whitakker, Jones - all these guys lose good fights, it just means than (some RJJ defences aside) they're in against top level all the time.

Let's not go writing miguel off after one defeat - Barrera twice losing to junior jones, remember?

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posted Jul 28, 2008

comment by BoxingNo1Ciaran (U12014816)
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mayweather would make complete and utter mincemeat of both margarito and cotto on the same night.its about time that all of you start to realise that floyd is a rare talent and does not want to fight anyone of the guys who are not even good enough to tie his shoe laces . in this weight division and above who can tell me who the hell can take him on and even have a slim chance of beating him. the only man who can beat PBF is himself mainly due to inactivity. lets hope andre berto can live up to expectations

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'tis about time that you, little child, realised that beating a retired dlh, the greatest plodder ever born, and the man he beat, does not a great boxer make.

Floyd plenty of skills. Just a shame he never proved he could beat the best.

I'm afraid the argument "well he doesn't have to fight them 'cos he would beat them anyway" is imbecilic beyond belief.

I'm the best heavyweight ever born. I just don't have to prove it by fighting Ali, Marciano, Louis 'cos some bloke told me I was better than them the other day.

I just don't think people like you can live on the same planet as the rest of us.

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posted Jul 28, 2008

well haymaker its seems your nickname makes you think your DH .THATS DAVID HAYE NOT dh who i had to work out as being oscar del etc. SO WHAT POINT were you making david haye wanner be and who the hell can beat PBF .AS so far you have not answered my polite question and you have come across as the spoit little puppy who will hide his toys when the big boys come out to play

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posted Jul 28, 2008

well haymaker it must have been beddie byes then son. speak tommorow mate

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posted Jul 29, 2008

Lol! Doesn't look like Cotto has a chin, exactly what PBF said.
Margarito vs PBF would be a great 'name' bout, but PBF will walk through him.
Even since this defeat, Cotto would still give PBF a better fight.

Personally, I think we could see a Margarito vs PBF fight, should the ODH/PBF fight go ahead (which I suspect it will in 6 months or so)

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posted Jul 30, 2008

"but PBF will walk through him."

If it came off Mayweather might dance around him and take a vast points decision, but he wouldn't take a forward step throughout the fight.

He most certainly wouldn't walk through him.

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posted Jul 30, 2008

Have to agree with Chupacabra - PBF would spend 12 rounds planting lighter shots and keeping away from the bigger, stronger, harder hitting Margarito. I'd see it being similar in pattern to SRL vs Hagler (obviously PBF playing the slickster staying out of trouble and Marge chasing like Hagler). Maybe a poor man's SRL vs Hagler as I don't think that PBF or certainly Marge are in the same class!

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posted Jul 30, 2008

Just watched the fight again. This wasn't simply a defeat: Cotto didn't just lose, he got battered (there's no other word for it). I just think PBF would have made Margarito miss and would've had a much better counterpunching ratio. Cotto not only ran out of ideas he wasn't able to dodge many of the punches.

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posted Jul 30, 2008

i made a comment yesterday that PBF would beat marg and cotto on the same night. i admit was slightly the worse for drink then and he may need a day or two to recover befor he smacks up the other guy but no one has talked about who can take him on.johnedgar made some good points and unlike hayemaker has not resorted to insults

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posted Aug 2, 2008

I was really surprised to see that Margarito started as 3-1 against for the Cotto fight.Cotto has been shaken up badly in a few of his fights and I felt that Margarito would have the style to beat him.Margarito now looks likely to go through the unification route.I think a unified title is the only challenge that may temp Mayweather out of retirement.

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posted Aug 2, 2008

I think a unified title is the only challenge that may temp Mayweather out of retirement.
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** Did they recruit you chaps out of comedy clubs?

Floydy has never held more than the WBC title his entire career, a WBC company man. Moreover he's retired in advance of becoming a billionaire this year.

To think that a career 25% champ suddenly developed uni-itch and could roust himself out of his gentleman's club for a pittance is funny stuff.

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