Did the eye save cotto?

[Gandalf]

There were just 2 differences in this fight.

1) Cotto has learned to clinch (which I despise)

2) Margarito's eye is fixed, but gets easily swollen as a result of surgery

Sorry if I'm misremembering your posts in other threads (and I'm too lazy to look back through the multi-page related threads), but I thought your position on Cotto-Margarito 1 was neutral as to whether or not Margarito cheated. If that's the case, you can't really say that there were "just" two differences in this fight. Unless you've concluded that the first fight was on the up-and-up, you have to at least allow for the possibility that there was a pretty big third difference, too.

Unless Cotto wants to make a legal case for it, then I am accepting the first fight as a valid win. Margarito attempted to cheat against Mosley, we don't know if he did against Cotto.

Cotto's face looked the same after nine in both fights. It's just that Cotto adapted with the clinch and moved more. He even evaded the topic somewhat when talking with Kellerman.

This fight makes me lean towards the notion that wraps were not an issue for the first fight.