Quote Originally Posted by Spicoli View Post
I haven't seen the fight and I picked Margarito to beat Cotto in rematch based on style and both have been through the shredder a bit. News flash....I was wrong. Not quite sure what else fans have to be wrong about etc?

It sounds as if Cotto fought a very similiar fight to first but focused on center ring and punching off side movement rather than that dreaded straight line to ropes and going square, but again, I have no clue. His punching was always effective in first fight and Margarito has always been a stone faced and balls to the wall pinata at times but full of pressure and volume. I don't think Cotto fans do him any service at all by trumping an unknown "who gotcha" with gloves. You dont know, I dont know...what we know is Tony's face fell apart this time. Something has to be said for Cottos improvments and adjustments I'd think and he zeroed in on fk'd up eye and fought smart by sounds of it. In the big picture and on a whole I am cool with Cotto getting his revenge and think he has more options and gears than a Margarito in regards to future matches and remains more fresh.
This is a good post and bang on imo. Cotto didn't need to zero in on the eye, it wasn't going to hold up one way or another. I also don't think it was a determining factor though in that Cotto was still fresher than Margarito by the 10th and didn't take the same kind of punishment through the early rounds that he did the first time. From reading the fight thread in here people seemed to see it panning out the same way because Cotto used the same tactics.. Fact is Margarito wasn't getting to him at all in most of the early rounds though.