Top Rank's most exciting boxers losing 1 by 1, is PAC next?

First it was Cotto losing to Margo... Tho not really a big loss to Top Rank since Margo is also a house fighter and making Margo a bigger star... Cotto might be bitter of the loss since he left the ring immediately and not available for post fight interview...

Next was Pavlik losing to smart veteran B-Hop... Pavlik looked like a small boy schooled by a master teacher... Pavlik was all class tho in the post fight interview and took the defeat as it is...

Cotto, Pavlik and Pacquiao are Top Rank's most exciting fighters (you can add Margo now after the Cotto victory)...

Is Pacquiao next to lose? ;)
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Pacquiao is expected to lose because he is the smaller guy. The other guys were favorites going into their fight losses, i think.

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Originally Posted by awdleyfuturehalloffamer

Pacquiao is expected to lose because he is the smaller guy. The other guys were favorites going into their fight losses, i think.

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Very true, Cotto and Pavlik were the favorites in their respective fights plus they're undefeated coming to those fights... So it's really a big deal when they lost...

PAC tasted defeats before and expected to lose his next fight, so it's not really a big deal for PAC losing in his next fight... ;)
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Ya, it has been a tough couple months for Top Rank.

While Margarito is a TR fighter, Cotto was obviously the guy that Arum had put more time/effort into building up. I'm sure if you hooked Arum up to a lie detector, he'd admit that he wanted Cotto to win.

The losses by Cotto and Pavlik could be eased a little bit by the rise of Juan Manuel Lopez. And Cotto and Pavlik can still come back and remain top fighters. It's up to Arum and his matchmakers to put them in the ring with opponents who can help them get their confidence back.