How Did Miguel Cotto vs Antonio Margarito Win FOTY ?

[amat]

Yeah it's easy as internet fans to watch fights all the time and watch them out of context days later or weeks later and rate fights specifically on what happened in the ring. But there is so much more then look at Ali he has I think 5 ring magazine fights of the year and 2 were with Leon Spinks and Doug Jones. Not exactly fights that jump out at you when you watch them in the ring but when you consider the external circumstances it's not hard to see why they got Fights of the year.

There are exceptions like a couple years ago when Monshipor fought Somsak and it won Fight Of The Year simply because in 2006 we had nothing even remotely close to that type of fight in 2006 where this year that probably wouldn't have won.

Plus it's not like it's a bad fight and there is no way you can say with any conviction that any of those 3 were easily better then Cotto-Margarito for the reasons I already mentioned. Bilbo I'm still going to neg rep you just to let you know but if it makes you feel any better you aren't dead wrong here.

[ICB]

Yeah it's easy as internet fans to watch fights all the time and watch them out of context days later or weeks later and rate fights specifically on what happened in the ring. But there is so much more then look at Ali he has I think 5 ring magazine fights of the year and 2 were with Leon Spinks and Doug Jones. Not exactly fights that jump out at you when you watch them in the ring but when you consider the external circumstances it's not hard to see why they got Fights of the year.

There are exceptions like a couple years ago when Monshipor fought Somsak and it won Fight Of The Year simply because in 2006 we had nothing even remotely close to that type of fight in 2006 where this year that probably wouldn't have won.

Plus it's not like it's a bad fight and there is no way you can say with any conviction that any of those 3 were easily better then Cotto-Margarito for the reasons I already mentioned. Bilbo I'm still going to neg rep you just to let you know but if it makes you feel any better you aren't dead wrong here.

Well i don't know how many good fights were in 1963. But i do know in 1978 Larry Holmes/Ken Norton, was a much better fight than Leon Spinks/Muhammad Ali 1, which was a mostly boring fight until the later rounds.

[HattonTheHammer]

i went with pacquiao-marquez II on the basis of sheer excitement and intensity throughout the fight.

Remember watching that fight in real time at 4 in the morning and going from very sleepy to sat on the edge of my chair tingling with anticipation as to what was gonna happen next.

at the same time though cotto-margarito winning is completely understandable and that is also a fight you could happily watch several times over and never get bored of.

[Taeth]

Another factor of the Pacquiao vs Marquez fight was that they are both so explosive. Margarito does the same thing over and over again at a slow pace, it is effective, but it doesn't look good. Cotto looks good, but he still doesn't have that exciting explosion when he moves in.

Both Pacquiao and Marquez are explosive and exciting, they didn't bow down to eachother's arsenals. They are both better than either Margarito and Cotto, IMO they both fought as hard as Margarito, and not like Cotto who gave up. Both of them put it all on the line.

Its like watching Gatti-Ward or Barrera-Morales. I would pick the second one every time. More skill, same drive and determination.

[amat]

Well Barrera-Morales was probably a more exciting fight regardless of skill level imo.

But no way Pac-Marquez was the FOTY imo I didn't find it to be a particulary great fight but to me it just wasn't enough action. And Margarito-Cotto had way more then just one momentum change.

[C-Lo]

Well Barrera-Morales was probably a more exciting fight regardless of skill level imo.

But no way Pac-Marquez was the FOTY imo I didn't find it to be a particulary great fight but to me it just wasn't enough action. And Margarito-Cotto had way more then just one momentum change.

I don't know amat. I thought the fight went Cotto's way in the beginning rounds, then you slowly started to see Margarito wear Cotto down, then Margarito took him out. I haven't seen the fight since the night it happened, but that's what I remember watching..

[:::PSL:::]

Because pain was more inflicted in Margo-Cotto. More brutal I guess.