Quote Originally Posted by TitoFan View Post
I remember not that long ago when maybe 80% of our fellow saddoers were not exactly Cotto fans. They found every fault in the book in him, and were reluctant to rate him anywhere near the top 10 p4p. Lousy chin, lousy defense, slow, robotic, etc, etc, etc. A few months and some impressive victories later, Cotto's one of the favorite fighters in the forum.

Same goes for Margarito. Only a few diehard fans expressed their "fandom" of Margarito back then. All of a sudden, it seems... everyone is singing Margarito's praises. Obviously, his total destruction of the dangerous Kermit Cintron was a huge factor.

So does that make us knowledgeable? Or fickle? I think the former. That's the beauty of boxing. As fighters mature and get huge fights under their belts, we tend to change our opinions and our preferences.

I just hope that whoever loses on July 26th all of a sudden doesn't become a bum.

I think also fighters have changed, as for what people say about boxers, I think peoples feelings towards the boxers and their threat towards people's favored fighters distort their opinion of that fihgter, or if a fighter like Cotto has bumps in the road on his way to stardom. I loved Cotto until he faced Torres, and it really took that Judah fight to put me back on the bandwagon, I thought his lack of chin would overcome all of his skills at the highest level, but up until now I have been proven wrong, thankfully, and he is one of my favorite fighters again.