Will Cotto ever be the same after tonight?

[match]

If anything his biggest hurdle will be if he can get over the psychological effect. Anytime an undefeated fighter first loses, it's devastating. Losing in such fashion as last night has to be even more devastating. Only time will tell.

[Pugilistic]

i do hope so, he put on a great performance and i hope it isn't his last.

[Deanrw]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

[El Kabong]

I think he'll be back but he needs a long layoff (of actual fighting and sparring) to heal up and then he needs to come back with a fight vs someone that is a light puncher and more of a defensive fighter just to get back in the groove of boxing again.


Fights like that one CAN ruin fighters but I think Cotto is a tough SOB and he'll be back to his top form in no time.

[Smoggie]

Briiliant fight, try this link... http://www.mmashare.com/video-miguel-cotto-vs-antonio-margarito-boxing-fight-t2158.html

[Markusdarkus]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

He took harder shots against Cintron.

[Scrap]

FRom the 2nd round Cotto wasnt moving the shoulders when Punching either the Body shots which I doubt. Or Tony Punching with him detroyed his confidence, methinks the second option was the problem.

[OumaFan]

One problem for Cotto is that sometimes when you have a top guy in your division who you can't get past you just move up a division, or down one. Cotto's stuck really, he's too big for 140, but not a real big 147 pounder and definitely not a 154 pounder. It would be different if it was Tony who lost, he's really a 154 pounder fighting at 147 so he could just move up. Cotto really can't so he either rematches Tony or goes about his business hoping Tony loses, moves up, gets old, whatever.

[El Kabong]

Cotto can still get the other titles in the division but right now he doesn't need to fight Tony again.

[bzkfn]

Cotto will be fine. You could tell by the good grace in which he accepted his defeat that it he just accepted that it wasn't his night. Just to be sure he should be given a confidence booster. Put him in with Quintana again, then either give him another fight before taking on Tony again, or alternatively go after Berto or the winner of next week's fight. Cotto is a world class fighter who would beat almost anyone within his weightclass. Fighters as good as him rarely fall apart after 1 defeat.

[GRBOXINGFAN]

I really think psychologically this is devastating. Not only to lose, but basically to be beaten down into submission. Margarito made Cotto quit. I called it before the 11th. Cotto looked done. He wanted out of that fight. It was a beating after the 6th.

[amat]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

He took harder shots against Cintron.

But he took nowhere near the number of clean shots in the Cintron fight and they didn't come in combinations and weren't sustained over 11 rounds.

I would never rule out Cotto in a rematch. Of course he can come back. You can give the example of Taylor-Chavez but then you could also give the example of Leonard-Hearns which was very much like this fight imo as far as momentum shifts go. Lots of really good fighters have been KO'd dramatically and come back to win big fights again.

[Markusdarkus]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

He took harder shots against Cintron.

But he took nowhere near the number of clean shots in the Cintron fight and they didn't come in combinations and weren't sustained over 11 rounds.

I would never rule out Cotto in a rematch. Of course he can come back. You can give the example of Taylor-Chavez but then you could also give the example of Leonard-Hearns which was very much like this fight imo as far as momentum shifts go. Lots of really good fighters have been KO'd dramatically and come back to win big fights again.

Margarito is the closest ive ever seen to being a soul breaking fighter. When fighting him you know two things that one he will take your best and two he will not stop coming so when entering the final 3rd of a bout already busted up and already hit him with everything a pending doom must come over fighters.

He broke Cintron and he broke Cotto both physically and mentally.

Cotto wont want to fight Tony for a long long time.

[scotty417]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

I liken Cotta's situation to both the beating that Meldrick Taylor took at the hands of Julio Cesar Chavez and the one that Fernando Vargas took with Felix Trinidad.

Margarito fought a brilliant defensive fight. When they were in the center of the ring, he had his elbows in tight to protect his body and he backed Cotta into the ring ropes. Many of Cotta's blows were arm blows, while Margarito was using the long, looping blows as well as the ones straight down the middle.

Margarito devastated Cotta with his left uppercut. In the 7th round, I think it was, Margarito delivered a series of triple left uppercuts that took the steam out of Cotta. After that, every series of multiple left uppercuts left Cotta dazed and with blood dripping down his face.

[Onix]

You have to wonder if Margarito will be the same also. It does not matter how good your chin is, but taking shots to the head like that over and over again is going to take something from you.

Antonio took some punches that were downright scary looking. I mean if he wants an enjoyable life past boxing, he should not have many more fights.

I liken Cotta's situation to both the beating that Meldrick Taylor took at the hands of Julio Cesar Chavez and the one that Fernando Vargas took with Felix Trinidad.

Margarito fought a brilliant defensive fight. When they were in the center of the ring, he had his elbows in tight to protect his body and he backed Cotta into the ring ropes. Many of Cotta's blows were arm blows, while Margarito was using the long, looping blows as well as the ones straight down the middle.

Margarito devastated Cotta with his left uppercut. In the 7th round, I think it was, Margarito delivered a series of triple left uppercuts that took the steam out of Cotta. After that, every series of multiple left uppercuts left Cotta dazed and with blood dripping down his face.

Exactly like the Taylor V JCC fight.