Boxing Bloggers Roundtable for Pacquiao-Margarito
by Scott Christ on Nov 7, 2010 6:14 PM EST
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Today over at our SB Nation sister site The Boxing Bulletin, you can read a roundtable discussion between myself and some of the best boxing bloggers out there today. Our topic was, as you might expect (or have guessed from the title of this post), Saturday's fight between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito.
On the panel were Corey Erdman and Anthony Wilson of The Boxing Bulletin, Tim Starks of The Queensberry Rules, Carlos Acevedo of The Cruelest Sport, and Andrew Harrison of Safe Side of the Ropes, along with yours truly. Head on over, check it out, and enjoy. I had fun with it, and here's hoping we do more of these in the future.
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This is a great idea.
I just wish it wasn’t coverage of this particular fight.
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Scott, you are the only one who commented on hat i believe is a greatly overlooked element of this fight; Margarito’s resilience post Cotto. My recollection of that night was a victorious Margarito, both arms around two of his corner men, being walked (virtually carried ) back to his dressing room. The point being that the victor, AM, took a beating just shy of the one that Cotto took. And may have left everything in the ring with him that night.
We have never seen the guy who knocked down and brutally stopped Cotto since.
I agree, the flip side of that fight is something nobody mentions much. Margarito won and did so amazingly, beating Cotto into submission more or less, but he certainly did not leave that fight unscathed. It’s not like Cotto was just paint brushing him for the first part of that fight. Margarito was getting tagged in there.
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by Scott Christ on Nov 7, 2010 10:33 PM EST up reply actions
Tagged is an understatement. I know you know that.
What he walked through to win that fight was almost as brutal as what Frazier had to withstand to get to Ali. To me, it is doubtful that either Cotto or Margarito could ever be the same. With Cotto, we already have the answer. With Margarito, we shall see.
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