Reading a boxer's record doesn't always give you the full picture.
Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Watched the Jamie Moore v Ossie Duran fight yet, or do you still think Jamie was stopped?
Reading a boxer's record doesn't always give you the full picture.
Reading a boxer's record doesn't always give you the full picture.
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Old bones Ian
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Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Maybe you should watch Cotto getting hurt and almost KO'd by Torres as well
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...and Judah. But then Zab is a massive Welterweight...ahem.
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lefthook82
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Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Cotto is going to cut him in half
Amazes me how Marga seems to be held in higher regard than Paul Williams even though The Punisher to my mind beat him comfortably
Amazes me how Marga seems to be held in higher regard than Paul Williams even though The Punisher to my mind beat him comfortably
Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
One of those KD's was his gloves touching the canvas, one was a flash KD and I haven't seen the other one - he wasn't hurt as well. The only way Margarito is getting stopped is with a body attack - it's possible but unlikely. Cotto's definitely the favourite to be knocked out, but he will win on points, I think.
Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
In the biggest welterweight 'trade' fight for years, smooth-boxing, sharp-hitting Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto squares up to rugged Mexican banger Antonio Margarito over 12 rounds in Las Vegas on July 26 for Cotto's WBA title.
This is quite simply a 'natural'. Cotto, unbeaten in 32 outings and seven dazzling years as a pro, won the title with an emphatic retirement stoppage of Carlos Quintana after five rounds in December 2006 (trademark body shots) and has rattled off four impressive defences over the likes of Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, the first of whom he outpunched; the second, outboxed. Oh yes, pretty much the perfect fighting machine is Miguel.
Southpaw Quintana, incidentally, went on to beat lanky American Paul Williams, a man who holds a win over Margarito, but styles make fights and we will come to that.
Cotto also earned his spurs in the light-welters, where he proved an outstanding WBO champion, pasted the likes of Kelson Pinto, Paul Malignaggi and Gianluca Branco and survived wobbly moments against DeMarcus Corley and Ricardo Torres to stop both. Weightmaking played a part with the latter but he was wobbled again by Judah at Madison Square Garden last June, before overwhelming the brash Brooklyn southpaw in 11 thrilling rounds. Cotto's chin is certainly not iron-clad, although he fires right back when hurt and, ominously for the 30-year-old Margarito, still looks to be improving at 27.
Margarito does have an iron jaw. The grizzled-looking challenger holds wins over Kermit Cintron, Joshua Clottey, Andrew Lewis, Antonio Diaz and Sergio Martinez and is surely one of the toughest fighters of the modern era. He comes off a repeat stoppage of the huge-punching Cintron for the IBF welterweight title in April, smirking at Cintron's biggest punches in the early rounds, ploughing on forward and finishing his man with a crippling left hook to the body in the sixth. Like Cotto, Margarito previously reigned supreme as WBO champion (at welter), a belt he finally dropped to that man Williams last year on a tight decision (Margarito was unfairly stripped of his IBF title). Southpaw Williams is an awkward, stiff-hitting nightmare of an opponent; perhaps we shouldn't read too much into the result, although Cotto, with his quick hands and thudding left jab, will have watched a few re-runs.
Cuts could play a part. Margarito bangs up, and we all remember the damage Cotto inflicted on Malignaggi. Cotto will probably mix it up, much as he did in his first true test at welter eight months ago against the strong, aggressive if aging Mosley, boxing at times, punching at times. Cotto has 'grown' into the division enough now and enjoys the challenge too much to stay on his toes; Margarito, much-feared, much-avoided, huge for the weight, physically strong, pressing and pressing hard, represents a huge challenge.
While both men have a desire that borders on the incredible, Cotto's ability to vary his game separates them. The champion meets fire with fire, especially to the body, and Margarito has plenty of body, and also counterpunches effectively on the way to the points.
There we have it, a mouthwatering coming together.
This is quite simply a 'natural'. Cotto, unbeaten in 32 outings and seven dazzling years as a pro, won the title with an emphatic retirement stoppage of Carlos Quintana after five rounds in December 2006 (trademark body shots) and has rattled off four impressive defences over the likes of Zab Judah and Shane Mosley, the first of whom he outpunched; the second, outboxed. Oh yes, pretty much the perfect fighting machine is Miguel.
Southpaw Quintana, incidentally, went on to beat lanky American Paul Williams, a man who holds a win over Margarito, but styles make fights and we will come to that.
Cotto also earned his spurs in the light-welters, where he proved an outstanding WBO champion, pasted the likes of Kelson Pinto, Paul Malignaggi and Gianluca Branco and survived wobbly moments against DeMarcus Corley and Ricardo Torres to stop both. Weightmaking played a part with the latter but he was wobbled again by Judah at Madison Square Garden last June, before overwhelming the brash Brooklyn southpaw in 11 thrilling rounds. Cotto's chin is certainly not iron-clad, although he fires right back when hurt and, ominously for the 30-year-old Margarito, still looks to be improving at 27.
Margarito does have an iron jaw. The grizzled-looking challenger holds wins over Kermit Cintron, Joshua Clottey, Andrew Lewis, Antonio Diaz and Sergio Martinez and is surely one of the toughest fighters of the modern era. He comes off a repeat stoppage of the huge-punching Cintron for the IBF welterweight title in April, smirking at Cintron's biggest punches in the early rounds, ploughing on forward and finishing his man with a crippling left hook to the body in the sixth. Like Cotto, Margarito previously reigned supreme as WBO champion (at welter), a belt he finally dropped to that man Williams last year on a tight decision (Margarito was unfairly stripped of his IBF title). Southpaw Williams is an awkward, stiff-hitting nightmare of an opponent; perhaps we shouldn't read too much into the result, although Cotto, with his quick hands and thudding left jab, will have watched a few re-runs.
Cuts could play a part. Margarito bangs up, and we all remember the damage Cotto inflicted on Malignaggi. Cotto will probably mix it up, much as he did in his first true test at welter eight months ago against the strong, aggressive if aging Mosley, boxing at times, punching at times. Cotto has 'grown' into the division enough now and enjoys the challenge too much to stay on his toes; Margarito, much-feared, much-avoided, huge for the weight, physically strong, pressing and pressing hard, represents a huge challenge.
While both men have a desire that borders on the incredible, Cotto's ability to vary his game separates them. The champion meets fire with fire, especially to the body, and Margarito has plenty of body, and also counterpunches effectively on the way to the points.
There we have it, a mouthwatering coming together.
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Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Lookout for a dickhead in a red shirt and tie in the crowd.
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You've planned what you're going to wear already, that's so gayEmerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:Lookout for a dickhead in a red shirt and tie in the crowd.
..... and I'm so jealous!! (that you're going to the fight, not that you've got a red shirt and tie) This has got fight of the year wrote all over it.A Cotto UD looks favourite, but this is a fight I won't be betting on
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It's my Vegas fight clothes. I managed to sit amongst the Crips for the DLH fight. That went down well. 
I think it'll be Cotto close on points. Margarito's beard is too good for Cotto's power to be stopped.
Undercard is just awful.
I think it'll be Cotto close on points. Margarito's beard is too good for Cotto's power to be stopped.
Undercard is just awful.
Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
Sounds Airy! I bet you were supporting the same fighters as the CripsEmerson Poncey Name Ghent wrote:I managed to sit amongst the Crips for the DLH fight. That went down well.
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hitman_hatton1
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Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
cotto wins i think.
margo will keep bringing it though.
it'll be competitive i reckon.
margo has struggled with leftys in the past.
interesting to see how cotto fights him.
he tends to fight feisty when a mexican is in front of him.
margo will keep bringing it though.
it'll be competitive i reckon.
margo has struggled with leftys in the past.
interesting to see how cotto fights him.
he tends to fight feisty when a mexican is in front of him.
Re: Antonio Margarito has been knocked down 3 times
I think he has to be certain not to get drawn into a war, if he does that he gets the UD.