Antonio Margarito is the real deal and I'm just a hatin fool for not recognizing.

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Alfonso Gomez had fought at 160 so don't give me that "he had no business being in the ring with Cotto" bs!


Sure Floyd is technically skilled and has great handspeed and a different kind of power than Cotto or Toni but I just think he's a fragile fighter and no one has really put him to the test other than an old De la Hoya and hell I think Floyd was lucky to get away with that fight with a 0 in the loss column. Oscar didn't try to punish Floyd...everyone wants to work in around Floyd's defense via the jab and combinations....Miguel will beat up the defense and Floyd will take punishment either on his defense or through his defense.


Cotto is waiting to be an attractive fight for Floyd....and that is smart because when Floyd wants to fight HIM and not the other way around Cotto then holds all the cards and can affect the amount of money he's going to get AND more importantly the size of the ring.

I guess it's easy to say, after the fact, that Gomez had no business being in with Cotto{seeing as how it went down}. I just never personally really thought he had a chance in hell to win that fight.

All credit to Gomez for taking the shot given to him, and best wishes to him, but he was so outclassed as to almost be criminal. But I guess those things happen. I think Gomez would have done better to get a couple of other fights with, say, Cintron or Clottey, etc., before trying to get in with Miguel. Kind of like Hatton fighting Collazo, then Urango and Castillo and thinking he could go to war against Floyd?? Kind of putting the horse before the cart. I understand though the financial/notoriety gains from doing those kinds of things, but looked how it ended up working out...pretty bad. I wonder if Gomez wishes now he had maybe climbed the ladder a little more cautiously. All respect to him though.

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Some very good posting in this thread.

I don't think Margarito's win has any bearing on how I look at his loss to Williams. He beat Cintron before he fought Williams and Williams beat Cintron with movement, the same way Floyd would beat Margarito imo. When Margarito had his high spots in the Williams fight, it wasn't because Margarito all the sudden tried to fight, it was because Williams was getting flatfooted and wasn't able to provide the same movement. I think a rematch goes pretty much the same way.

That's not to discredit Margarito though, really, who didn't expect this? We all knew Tony hit hard, Cintron was more game and was able to land more punches but this didn't look all to different from the first fight. Tony was better technically but like p4pking said earlier, everything this night went completely as expected. Don't know why people would think otherwise.

I agree with Lyle in that Cotto is going to pick Margarito apart. I think Margarito is going to be able to scare him a few times throughout the fight but Margarito isn't exactly a short puncher and Cotto blocks punches very well from the outside, it's the inside and while setting up that he gets tagged the most. I think Cotto will get inside the long punches of Margarito and cash his check to the body. Don't think anybody is ever going to stop Margarito, but Cotto has a better chance then anyone because he goes to the body.

This is going to be a great fight though. Tony did look good but don't think he beats Cotto.