Quote Originally Posted by tysonbruno View Post
The fight was AWESOME!! both fighters were amazing we have just witnessed a true 50/50 fight and i feel Cotto is getting some negative response.He is still number 2 Welter in the world for christ sake.
It was inevitable that there would be some backlash because of the hype that Cotto has been receiving as "The Next Big Thing."

While some of that hype was justified because of Cotto's obvious skills, the fan/press response to his fights over the last year didn't seem to match what I saw.

Zab Judah fought well against Miguel and lost in a similar fashion to the way Cotto lost to Margarito, but all the attention after that fight was on Cotto -- how he was a star in the making. Shane Mosley fought Cotto almost to a draw, but again, Cotto seemed to get all the glory. Cotto then got more buzz out of his tune-up fight with Gomez than did Margarito that same night for beating a titleholder.

I just think some people are a little hungover from being forced to ride the Cotto bandwagon over the last 12 months. It's no discredit to him to be less than what some people perhaps unrealistically imagined him to be. He's still young and talented enough to be someone who we talk about for a long time.