Boxing Discussion thread *spoilers* (part 2)
Former Welterweight foes Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito are all set to be squaring off in another Puerto Rico versus Mexico slugfest.Their last bout ended in an 11th round TKO in favour of Margarito, butas your probably well aware, the fall-out when it was discovered he wasusing 'loaded gloves' for the Mosley fight, cast a huge cloud of his epic win.
Many Puerto Rican's believe this was why Cotto's face was so badlyinjured and that a normally tough fighter was systematically brokendown.
Cotto himself swore that he would never let Margarito earn another pennyfrom his name, but another recent stoppage defeat to Manny Pacquiao anda move up in weight has left the Caguas resident with little routes left to big money purse fights.
Perhaps this rematch has been too long overdue and that it has witheredon the vine. But nonetheless fan's of either fighter (I'm a Cotto fan)will no doubt salivate as they make their ring walk.
So many variables will come into play as to whom is the victor.
Will Cotto be weakened by the first loss mentally? or will he be moredriven than ever given his hunger to upturn the result in his favour.
Will Margarito look to prove himself 'cement free' against his oldrival, in full knowledge that a loss to Cotto would effectively spellthe end of him as a light-middleweight and possibly a marquee fighter.
One thing's for sure, the MGM grand will be rammed come September 17th ! it,ll be interesting to see what the pacman fight took out of margarito This fight isn't even garunteed to happen yet data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 No one watch the Pacman/Mosley fight?
Awful fight with Pacman blaming Mosley for his style as the reason. In my opinion Mosley had little or no chance to beat him but his gameplan was the only one that could possibly give him the win.
Pacquiao did look off his game though. Whereas previously I was undecided over the outcome of a fight with Mayweather on last nights showing, and as long as Mayweather was on his absolute A game, I would say my money would be on Mayweather.
Saying that though I still cannot see that fight happening.
The Vazquez/Arce fight was BRILLIANT though.
As a side note I thought the intro's were amazing and nice to hear that Bob Arum had stated that he had looked as other forms of promotion such as UFC and learnt from it. Terrible fight that last night Mosley fighting for pay packets shocking fight.
Lets just hope THAT fight gets on it wont but we can only hope.
The division is going stale and it needs this fight now IMO Finally
Froch is back! | Sky Sports | Boxing | Features
Hope it's not ppv though. I don't think it will be with the cleverly fight 2 weeks before on ppv See if he avoids the clink first.
Can't see it happening.
(I mean the fight, not him avoiding jail)data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 By the looks of it Mayweather will be fighting soon although it will be agains't Ortiz.
Nothing confirmed yet but looks like it. Did anyone see the Klitschko Haye press conference?
It was actually really funny.
I love the Klitschko guy. He showed respect, and Haye just sat there like a big cocky oaf.
Hope Klitschko wins data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 Yeah, it's been a long time coming hasn't it!
Hopefully he'll become a bit more of a household name now he's left Hennessy and moved over to Matchroom. Will be looking forward to the Johnson fight, watched his Super Six fight against Green, he's certainly not showing signs of ageing and should be a good opponent for Froch.
YouTube - Glen Johnson vs Allan Green
BBC Sport - Carl Froch to be promoted by Barry and Eddie Hearn