After the Fight Cottos walk back to the dressing room spoke volumes as did his posture.
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After the Fight Cottos walk back to the dressing room spoke volumes as did his posture.
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An undefeated fighter just got the shit kicked out of him and had his world shook. I think it is shitty to expect so much out of a person. Also when someone gets manhandled: what the fuck are they supposed to say?? I don't even know why they drill guys that get beat bad after a fight. Shit it is time to move on.
"If there's a better chin in the world than Pryor's, it has to be on Mount Rushmore." -Pat Putnam.
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Titofan made a point to note that Cotto had strong moral charater and listed out the great attributes that Cotto has to showcase that character...shouldnt good sportsmanship be the #1 attribute a champion should have? Even Floyd shows a great sportsmanship after every fight.
Pavlik, undefeated, gave an interview.
Kessler, undefeated, gave an interview.
Hatton, undefeated, gave an interview.
This list can go on and on.
I was trying to heckle Titofan more than anything, but the more I think about it...the more I do believe that this was a chink in his "character" armor.
The key is Self-discipline.
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Onix you're usually pretty level headed you seem not to like Cotto that's fine. Um, you do know you don't know the guy right? He gave you what he gave you in the fight, made it Saddoboxing.com's fight of the year even. That's what you should be judging him on because you don't know him, you can't judge his character.
When Tex Cobb got beat the shit out of by Larry Holmes, he gave a monologue afterwards that would have made Johnny Carson proud. Does that mean anything about the fighter? Does that mean he was ready to come back better then ever? Did he?
It's silly for you to list off lal these guys who gave interviews after losing, they aren't the same guys you have to judge each separately or better yet just not judge them at all. Erik Morales threw a water bottle at MAB when MAB was trying to hug Morales, does that say anything about Morales or MAB and their ability to carry on afterward? No it didn't.
This whole thing is silly, even trying to judge a fighter's character is silly because we're not fighters we can't do that if we don't know them. If you do want to judge, that's a stupid thing to judge because that doesn't even show if one has character or not. It just shows he didn't feel in the mood to be in the ring after the fight, there were people saying he was sobbing in the locker room as HBO went off air.
Arturo Gatti did the same thing after losing to Alfonzo Gomez he went and hid in his locker room for an hour or so before his wife got him to go on camera and say that he was retiring. Does that tell us anything abuot Gatti? No not really.
Cotto looked like one of the best fighters in the world for 5 rounds, looked like a coming out party of all coming out parties but fights aren't 5 rounds, momentum shifted a few times from round to round from exchange to exchange and he came out on the losing end because he didn't have it in him in the end to take the punishment anymore. He was spent and that's just what happened in the fight we don't know how that will be used if it will be used at all in Cotto coming back. The title says Cotto Might Never Be The Same.
Well that is the obvious here. He might not. Or he might come back better then ever. Or he might not be the same we don't know but it's really just stating the obvious.
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