I just watched the fight today.

A fan loses out so much when he already knows who's gonna win.

Anyway, completely 1-sided affair.
Cotto had such poise, so well-composed, calmly sticking to the gameplan which was working. Fought with passion and energy, but cool-headed. Not wild.

Martinez was just kind of floundering around with no answers as to what to do when faced with superior technical skills.
And he's lost his punch resistance.
When a guy's style is dependent on speed and athleticism, but can't really box and hasn't learned the technical aspects, once some of that speed goes, well, it's too late to learn how to box correctly then. Too old to learn now.

There's been far worse beatings where the fight wasn't stopped.
Still, dude was down 3 times in rd 1; that's tremendous unseen damage in his brain took place there. You don't want to play around with that. Good stoppage.Each rd, Martinez was taking more punishment than the rd before. He never recovered from the 1st rd damage.


Martinez was a Good Champion.
On Saturday night, it was hard to believe this was the same guy that cold-konked Paul Williams cold and beat up Pavlik not too long ago.

Mediocre ref.


This was Cotto's shining moment.