Quote Originally Posted by marbleheadmaui View Post
Just wondering. As you were watching the Margarito-Cotto fight did it ever seem to you like something unusual was happening? It never occurred to me. Of course I still guess Margarito was clean for that fight. I thought I was looking at a fight Arguello fought a dozen times, Marciano fought half a dozen times, Tito a couple of times, Carmen Basilio fought a bunch of times. Get outspeeded early but just keep coming, look awkward but just keep coming and hurting the faster guy enough that by the later rounds it is a race to the final bell. Can the fast guy hang on or the stalking puncher finish him.

It just felt like a fight I'd seen many times before.
I thought it was odd that all Margarito needed was 2 solid rounds to stop Cotto as Margarito isn't known for being a hellacious 1 punch power puncher. What really shocked me was when Mosley stopped Margarito with relative ease AFTER Toni was busted for loaded wraps and then I knew something was up vs Cotto as Miguel had just as much power as Shane and cracked Margarito a lot but I'm guessing the psychological advantage of having loaded wraps gave him the edge.

Just my opinion on the issue though.