Can You Imagine If Trinidad And Margarito Were From Same Era?

[Bx730NY]

All I can say is holy smokes. That would have been one hell of a fight.

Two supremely conditioned guys. About same height.

Power edge goes to Tito easily.

Speed Tito.

Determination is close and a toss up but Margo is the type of guy who goes into fight without any major advantages and comes out winning clear victories due to his workrate, stamina and unbelieavable chin.

Man I we were only a few years of from getting that too.

That fight wouldn't even need a ref.

[canary]

All I can say is holy smokes. That would have been one hell of a fight.

Two supremely conditioned guys. About same height.

Power edge goes to Tito easily.

Speed Tito.

Determination is close and a toss up but Margo is the type of guy who goes into fight without any major advantages and comes out winning clear victories due to his workrate, stamina and unbelieavable chin.

Man I we were only a few years of from getting that too.

That fight wouldn't even need a ref.

dont insult tito.

[Master]

See Rookie thread.

[The Rookie Fan]

Margarito is certanly deserving of praise. He beat a superior boxer and and undefeated elite champion in Cotto. He would certanly have his place in the 90s. But you gotta remember that this is not only the era of Tito, it was also an era of prime DLH who fought Tito to a virtual draw, and a prime Quartey who gave DLH all he could handle. All three of them were undefeated when they fought eachother. All three of them big welters also. Margarito would probably take decision losses to all three of them. Great fights non the less.

[Pavlik]

Not to diss Margarito because his CHIN is second to none, but we're in the trend that fighters are usually fighting in a weight class to small for them and Tony is one of them IMO. With his height and frame he is at least a 154 pounder.
Up against Tito, he will not be able to bully a fighter with Tito's size and power. Tito may not stop him but is enough for him to render respect for Tito's punches, unlike Cotto who punches upward(lesser force) Tito will be throwing power shots perpendicularly. Tony had a hard time with Daniel Santos, a man his size

[Wayne]

Not to diss Margarito because his CHIN is second to none, but we're in the trend that fighters are usually fighting in a weight class to small for them and Tony is one of them IMO. With his height and frame he is at least a 154 pounder.
Up against Tito, he will not be able to bully a fighter with Tito's size and power. Tito may not stop him but is enough for him to render respect for Tito's punches, unlike Cotto who punches upward(lesser force) Tito will be throwing power shots perpendicularly. Tony had a hard time with Daniel Santos, a man his size

By that logic how did Tyson clear out guys the way he did? Tyson himself said being shorter was an asset.

[Wayne]

Yeah. Trinidad would have gotten knocked out.

[iwatchsports]

If Santos could go to waR ith Margarito, so can Tito.

[Bx730NY]

If you wanna know how that fight would play out, just look for Tito vs Campas on youtube.

I don't know how you guys add the vid right onto the post but I'll try. Otherwise you can check.

Campas like Margarito is 5' 10 1/2", granite chin, non stop workrate, in your face and tough as nails.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGmsOT6om_g

[Pavlik]

If you wanna know how that fight would play out, just look for Tito vs Campas on youtube.

I don't know how you guys add the vid right onto the post but I'll try. Otherwise you can check.

Campas like Margarito is 5' 10 1/2", granite chin, non stop workrate, in your face and tough as nails.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGmsOT6om_g

Campas' rock solid chin held up for some time but the bouncing and whiplash like movement of his neck can't hide the fact that Tito was landing BOMBA ATOMICA on him.
Like me people forget that Tito has good boxing skills aside from his legendary power, he was moving backwards most of the time but was still outboxing the other guy.
A GREAT fight from one of the best welterweights of all-time probably the hardest punching too.

[The Rookie Fan]

Well I won't sit here and compare Margarito to Campas because that would be unfair. But lets talk a bit about the Cotto - Margarito fight. There was something interesting going on in the fight. Maybe after the stoppage some of you forgot. Yeah, Cotto was hitting Margarito almost at will. I mean the only thing Cotto didn't hit margarito with was the stool. It that was Trinidad in there, Margarito's face would probably resemble that guy from the Goonies. Please don't say Tito would never land that many shots cuz Tito was one of the most accurate punchers there was in his day.

Now let's talk about Trinidad's lossess. The guys who beat Tito did it with defense, more than offense. (In the case of RJJ, it might not've made much of a difference but that was at 170 and we are talking about 147, a weight Tito never lost in) Margarito has underrated defense but he is still way short of the league of Hopkins, Wright and Jones. So short it is not even worth thinking about it.

Bottom line, a come forward, low defense fighter would never, never beat Tito especially not at Welterweight. You could argue that Tito would not KO him and I would have no problem agreeing with you. But to suggest Margarito would beat Trinidad. A man that not even a Prime DLH could beat, a Prime Vargas could'nt hurt and a prime Hopkins (One of the best Middleweights of all time) took 12 rounds to finally stop. I just don't see how anybody would even consider Margarito had a chance to beating Trinidad at 147.

[SweetPea]

All I can say is holy smokes. That would have been one hell of a fight.

Two supremely conditioned guys. About same height.

Power edge goes to Tito easily.

Speed Tito.

Determination is close and a toss up but Margo is the type of guy who goes into fight without any major advantages and comes out winning clear victories due to his workrate, stamina and unbelieavable chin.

Man I we were only a few years of from getting that too.

That fight wouldn't even need a ref.

Well if there was no ref, then Margarito would need to wear a cup made of steel because Tito would be throwing low blows from the opening bell.

Would have loved to have seen this fight. I think Trinidad wins it though.

[TitoFan]

All I can say is holy smokes. That would have been one hell of a fight.

Two supremely conditioned guys. About same height.

Power edge goes to Tito easily.

Speed Tito.

Determination is close and a toss up but Margo is the type of guy who goes into fight without any major advantages and comes out winning clear victories due to his workrate, stamina and unbelieavable chin.

Man I we were only a few years of from getting that too.

That fight wouldn't even need a ref.

Well if there was no ref, then Margarito would need to wear a cup made of steel because Tito would be throwing low blows from the opening bell.

Would have loved to have seen this fight. I think Trinidad wins it though.

Sh*t... you'd think that's all Tito ever did in his fights. Geeeeeez....

[Puya]

All I can say is holy smokes. That would have been one hell of a fight.

Two supremely conditioned guys. About same height.

Power edge goes to Tito easily.

Speed Tito.

Determination is close and a toss up but Margo is the type of guy who goes into fight without any major advantages and comes out winning clear victories due to his workrate, stamina and unbelieavable chin.

Man I we were only a few years of from getting that too.

That fight wouldn't even need a ref.

Well if there was no ref, then Margarito would need to wear a cup made of steel because Tito would be throwing low blows from the opening bell.

Would have loved to have seen this fight. I think Trinidad wins it though.

LOL how much money you lost beting against tito?