Quote Originally Posted by ghoster
One thing no one ever does when looking at a matchup between a orthodox and an unorthodox fighter is look at how the righthanded fighter handles southpaws. This is one of the most overlooked factors in prefight analyizing today. Margarito hasn't had the best history with southpaws. Daniel Santos(twice) & Rodney Jones are the top southpaws on Margarito's resume. He lost to both of them. Did Margarito learn from it, probably. Enough?-we'll find out after the bell rings starting the first round.
Williams looks like the real thing, but I haven't been impressed with his level of competition. Sure I know he knocked out Sharmba Mitchell, but after everybody had. Margarito will press Williams and test him. And though Williams unorthodox stance will make this fight competitive, it is my opinion Margarito will stop him in the later rounds.

But I think it all comes down to how Margarito does against a southpaw.

I guess that's a fair argument, how does Tony deal with a 82'' reach rangy lefty and who can combine the jab with a sharp left counter. I disagree that the blueprint can be the Santos fight cause we know the Puerto-Rican was not hitting Tony with a jab but with unorthodox flashy punches from that stance and clinching/blocking Tony coming in, actually he won the fight number one cause there was the typical clash of heads that took to the 10th round technical decision, number two cause the split decision was biased towards Santos, then there so much more to be tested tonight besides Tony ability to move his head to rightfield and avoid the long jab, there's Paul's condition to take meaty body blows since he can't clinch or block like Santos, there's Tony ability to break through and respond to a well schooled sharp shooter with his own technicalities ( untested so far), but I liked the post, cheers