HBO pissed off with Cotto..

[the wiz]

Cotto is an HBO fighter and is probably under contract to provide a post-fight interview.
HBO is pissed-off beacuse he is less bankable after a loss and there is no guarantee that that they will get in on Tony's next fight

I'm pretty sure Cotto is on a fight to fight basis with HBO or whoever. He is not an HBO fighter. His fight against Paulie wasn't done by HBO and his fight vs Quintana was on Shotime.

[amat]

I didn't realize people thought HBO was pissed and that's why they showed the kids, I thought HBO was actually mad and they also took issue with this.

I thought it was sad, but indicative of the fight. I mean it was a great fight, obviously heartbreaking. They talked a whole lot about how close Cotto was with his kids, his kids were in the production meetings and everything, I think it was a just a bit of a follow up.

[scotty417]

HBO should be ashamed they sucked Cottos balls all fight they praised Cottos shots yet chose to speak over Margaritos good work.

Was sad to see.

Jim Lampley is the worst announcer in boxing history. Whatever he says, the opposite is usually happening. Both Steward and Kellerman were correctly wondering whether Cotto would be able to maintain this pace with Margarito. Lampley called their statement "audacious." Steward almost had to apologize for saying that he thought the left uppercut would be Margarito's main weapon and that he thought that Margarito was too big for Cotto. He acted this way because Lampley was shamelessly promoting Miguel Cotto.

The clip at the end was truly classless. I don't think that HBO was pissed off with Cotto. I just think that they didn't know any better. They gave the boot to Larry Merchant who usually tried to wax poetically and make inane analogies about what took place. Think this was their attempt to show a "Raging Bull" type moment, but, of course, it reeked of taking advantage of Cotto and his family.