Cotto vs Margarito makes business sense

[blegit]

Margarito should be banned for life. Cotto has been fighting and has gotten an enormous amount of miles put on him since and including the Margarito debacle. Meanwhile, Margarito has been resting since his KO lost. Cotto is nowhere near the same fighter. He knows it and many other fighters have stated this also. There is no way to legitimize Margarito's first win because if Margarito did cheat then Cotto took 11 rounds of being punched by stone hands. Pushing Cotto several steps toward shot.

[TheBranMan]

Margarito should be banned for life. Cotto has been fighting and has gotten an enormous amount of miles put on him since and including the Margarito debacle. Meanwhile, Margarito has been resting since his KO lost. Cotto is nowhere near the same fighter. He knows it and many other fighters have stated this also. There is no way to legitimize Margarito's first win because if Margarito did cheat then Cotto took 11 rounds of being punched by stone hands. Pushing Cotto several steps toward shot.

Well said. I don't think Cotto should give Marga-cheato another pay-day. He simply doesn't deserve it. I think he cut short the career of an absolutly great fighter that night on July 26, 2008. Cheating in such a way could kill someone.

I would much rather see Cotto vs Castillo anyways (despite that they're both past their prime).

[Youngblood]

What sells isn't always good. Crack cocaine has a market also. Doesn't mean it should be available to all for that reason. I'm pretty sure if you made a death channel, PPV, where people get lit up and tortured on live tv the numbers would go thru the roof. As a species we have a morbid curiosity for such things...

The point being, demand isn't everything. You have to draw a line in the sand. And what Antonio Margarito and his trainer did was as bad and as blatant as it gets in the boxing world for cheating. Neither deserves to make any more money from this sport. This sport owes them nothing. They owe it everything they have ever got and showed how little respect they have for it, and their opponents. I will only be disappointed in boxing as whole if I see him back.

[Gandalf]

I don't want to see it. Margarito does not deserve another big payday from boxing. The guy is a criminal in my eyes and deserves no further reward in this line of work.