You guys are tottally missunderstanding me. I think these fights will both be awesome fights with great back and forth action.
But what I'm saying is that this is all a build up to a Cotto - Margarito WW Unification showdown. Margarito is fighting his mandatory and Cotto is fighting a guy coming out of 3 losses in 5 recent fights and coming out of a long layoff.
A mandatory before a unification fight is usually considered a Tune-up. However, it just so happends that this mandatory challenger is possibly one of the most dangerous fighters in the division.
A fighter coming out of 3 losses and a long layoff before a unification fight would normally be considered a Tune up as well. He just happends to be Zab Judah, a fighter at one time considered a fenom and possibly the next best thing in 140 since Swetpee up until he met with a recking ball known as the KT right hand. This guy was also the undisputed WW champ just a year and half ago.
My point is that if these were any other two fighters these would be considered tune up fights for Cotto and Margarito. So I will go ahead and call them the toughest tune up fights in recent history.
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