Margarito welcomes rematches with Cotto and Mosley
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 11:46 AM EDT
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In an interview with ESPN Deportes Radio (link via BoxingScene.com), former welterweight titleholder Antonio Margarito says he'd be "willing" to fight Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley again in 2010, when it's expected he'll be re-licensed to box in the United States. Margarito is currently on a one-year suspension after the California State Athletic Commission determined he and/or his corner had attempted to tamper with the gloves prior to his January loss to Mosley.
"I'd give Cotto a rematch. I think that fight will be good. The only loss he has is to me, and if he wants to remove that thorn from his side, then I will give him a second defeat."
It's like, can you even fathom how big Antonio Margarito's heart must be? To not only stay so humble as the public desperately clamors for his return, with the sport missing him so badly and all, but to ask Miguel Cotto to get up off of bended knee and say, "Yes, warrior, I will grant you a rematch. You are an honorable man."
Wow. Margarito is such a gentleman. I almost well up with tears when I consider how kind and generous he's being here. Miguel Cotto is about to be involved in one of the three biggest fights of 2009 -- and there's no competition for "biggest fight of 2009" beyond Cotto-Pacquiao, Hatton-Pacquiao and Mayweather-Marquez -- but here's Antonio Margarito: Man. Legend., willing to let him share the ring once again.
You know, if California lifts his suspension and he can fight in the United States again.
As for Mosley:
"I had three or four pounds left to go, and then I was stuck. I struggled to make the weight. I trained like I always do, but ... what really messed me up was the weight"
Yeah. The weight. That's what it was. No other giant questions about your performance that night. Probably just the weight.
To quote the great Ric Flair on the September 14, 1998 edition of WCW Monday Nitro: "You're a liar! You're a cheat! You're a scam! You! Are! A no-good! Sonofabitch!"
(I mostly just wanted to use that Ric Flair quote there. Please don't take it too seriously.)
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Magarito is such an ass
that being said as undeserving as he is to be able to get either of those rematches I wouldnt mind seeing them,I really want to see Cotto kick his ass on an even playing field and we all know what Shane did to him the first time so that would be fun to watch as well.
by Eploos on Oct 23, 2009 12:20 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
you know the exact edition of nitro that ric flair said that? i’m starting to worry about you dawg
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by battle axe of doom on Oct 23, 2009 12:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
I was a HUUUUGE wrestling fan in my youth and as a teen, peaking right about that time (I was 16). It’s also a very famous thing within pro wrestling.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I'll admit it too, kind of went a bit past 16 though lol
I even did the walk as a kid too
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
by BrianBrock on Oct 23, 2009 2:54 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
With or without the " ALTERED" gloves. Margarito is crazy !!
by Haans Bishop on Oct 23, 2009 12:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
+1
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by hakimdropstheball on Oct 23, 2009 12:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
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by Ubernoober on Oct 23, 2009 12:36 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
that was a classic Nitro. The Horsemen Reunion show. good times.
as for plaster fists. hes just fucking delusional. hes going to have to have shamrocks up his ass to get anyone of note to fight him ever again, let alone mosley or cotto.
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by sonofapsycho on Oct 23, 2009 12:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Horsemen reunion AND a totally kick ass Kidman-Juventud Guerrera match.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i miss those classic cruiserweight matches and the lucha libre they had. remember blitzkrieg? that dude was fucking sick. 3 count and the jung dragons had some sick matches too.
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by sonofapsycho on Oct 23, 2009 7:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
as for plaster fists. hes just fucking delusional. hes going to have to have shamrocks up his ass to get anyone of note to fight him ever again, let alone mosley or cotto.
Unless something strange happens, like Mayweather wants to fight him, you can bet your sweet ass that there will be a Cotto-Margarito rematch. Bob Arum will make it happen. He likes to keep things in the family too much, and it’s not like there are any other big names Cotto could fight after Pacquiao if Mayweather looks elsewhere.
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by Brickhaus on Oct 23, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Arum really shouldn’t try to get Cotto to want to leave Top Rank, which is all trying to force him into a Margarito rematch would do, I reckon.
I also wonder how much money there really is for that fight. Is HBO interested in pushing Margarito again? Would Bob try to go independent with it?
And then I wonder if Margarito can even make 147 anymore. Lame excuse or not (and it’s a lame excuse when you consider the other glaring factors), the talk at the time was that he was having problems making weight for the fight. He indicated his future is at 154, which didn’t go so well for him in the past.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree
Do you think if Mosley was to fight Pacquiao at 143 he would do Good??
by rgb on Oct 23, 2009 2:16 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Nope.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 2:22 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don't see it that way....
If Margarito was having trouble making weight, then how come he weighed in at 145 for the Mosley fight?
Boxing is the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight. (Omar Epps)
by Chaos100 on Oct 23, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
that weight thing
is just a nonsense excuse, almost as good as not knowing there was plaster in his wraps. No-one should even give him an audience, and let him live on in his rematches dream world alone….
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘’Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'’ (Bernard Hopkins)
by BrianBrock on Oct 23, 2009 2:57 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Those were the reports at the time leading up to the fight. He might have overdone it in the final week. Oscar weighed in at 145 for Pacquiao, too.
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"Well Howie, I think I'm going to stay outside and outjab him." -- Tex Cobb telling Howard Cosell how he would approach Larry Holmes
by SC on Oct 23, 2009 2:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The only way Cotto would do this is if he got, say, a 99%-1% split, which obviously won’t happen.
But I’d think that if Cotto knew he wasn’t going to enrich Margarito in the process, he would happily go in there to kick his ass.
by taco pal on Oct 23, 2009 8:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
i dont see it happening. not anytime in the next couple years anyway. i can see them fighting in peurto rico. certainly not mexico, unless cotto is the dumbest man on earth and agrees to fight him there.
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by sonofapsycho on Oct 23, 2009 8:01 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Will he still be sponsored by CEMEX? They can’t let such a great fighter go without an obvious sponsorship.
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by Sickle on Oct 23, 2009 1:50 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
No interest in seeing Margarito ever fight again.
He should be banned for life. Unforgivable.
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by The Kittitas Kid on Oct 23, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
If he ever he fights Cotto though
I think he would get beaten. I honestly think so… Of course, no plaster anymore, right? So I’m sure.
Don’t you think so?
by Fj-3 on Oct 23, 2009 2:54 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
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