Sometime not long ago Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito were friends, fighting on the same fight night that Top Rank promotes. It has come to its end, apparently, after the two fought on July 2008 wherein Margarito knocked out Cotto at the eleventh round in a bloody fight.
Margarito had been hitting like a monster in the later part of that fight that everyone felt he is going to loose. Cotto's face was so bloody and bruised that lead you to think something like other than fists had hit it.
Doubts later marred into this fight when before Margarito's next fight against Sugar Shane Mosley in January 2009, Margarito had been captured trying to enter in the ring along with hands coated within a plaster-like compound. Margarito's hands were rewrapped lawfully and then Mosley knocked him in the ninth round. Margarito, later put the blame to his former coach Javier Capetillo for adding the banned pads devoid of his understanding. He was afterwards stripped of his license to fight by the California commission for that violation.
Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs), like many, has stated he thinks Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs) got away with putting on loaded hands systems for his or her fight, which many attribute his nasty facial swelling to.
"The very first fight needs to go lower by having an asterisk, after what went down with Mosley," Cotto stated Thursday. "So there's any doubt that you will find questions regarding our fight. Everybody knows what went down to him after our fight."
As though a rematch between your two wouldn't happen to be anticipated enough, we are able to toss the debate within the hands systems in to the equation -- that was a large area of the discussion because they spent now marketing their 12 ,. 3 (Cinemax PPV) follow up at New York's Madison Square Garden throughout a four-city media tour of San Juan, Puerto Rico, New You are able to, Mexico City and La.
"The hands systems, that's an problem," Top Rank promoter Bob Arum stated. "This is an problem according to what Cotto thinks and what went down using the Mosley fight."
Arum -- who maintained all along that Margarito never understood the systems were loaded prior to the Mosley fight and stated he thinks that Margarito didn't put on changed systems for that 2008 fight with Cotto -- stated they'll take measures to make certain there's no funny business using the systems prior to the rematch.
Arum stated his plan's for every trainer, Emanuel Steward for Cotto and Robert Garcia for Margarito, to seal all their wrapping materials -- tape, gauze and pads -- in bags in the weigh-in and charge the brand new You are able to commission with keeping them secure overnight, until it's the perfect time for that boxers' hands to become wrapped on fight evening.
"A good all of the steps that you could to really make it no problem within this fight?" Arum stated.
He stated he's spoken to New You are able to commissioner Melvina Lathan, who stated the business would make a move to help keep the types of materials secure.
"The very first fight was thrilling, as well as without it stuff, it will likely be an excellent fight -- exactly the same type of fight as the first,Inch Arum stated. "The only real question from Cotto's perspective is, has he had the opportunity to build up the stamina to visit all 12 models with this particular guy? That is what he needs to focus on, for me."
Prior to the first fight, nobody from Cotto's camping -- including uncle and trainer Evangelista Cotto, that has since been fired -- oversaw the wrapping of Margarito's hands. The Nevada commission had an inspector within the dressing room to look at the proceedings, but an associate from the opposing camping usually exists to see.
"We are likely to make certain that people take proper care of that," stated Cotto, who definitely are making the 2nd defense of his junior middleweight title. "Everyone on my small team knows their job on fight evening."
Stated Arum: "The commission in Nevada swears its personnel looked over everything and [that] Margarito's hands were clean, but you never know?
Miguel Cotto still stews over caused by his first fight with Antonio Margarito, whom he (amongst others) suspects of putting on loaded hands systems for that bout.
Cotto vowed he'd never give Margarito a rematch, thus stopping him from creating a significant pay day. However, economic facts occur and Cotto decided to the rematch since it seemed to be the greatest available pay day for him. Based on Arum, Cotto will earn $5 million along with a area of the pay-per-view profits, while Margarito will earn $2.5 million along with a lesser area of the PPV upside.
Although he did not address the financial factors, Cotto stated, "I am happy to find the rematch in order to prove I'm able to beat him. I am very confident it will likely be an excellent fight like the first, however with another result. I understand the mistakes I produced in the very first fight and they'll be remedied. I am more aged now and I've got a better attitude about my training contributing to preparing for any fight than Used to do 3 years ago."
Margarito, who definitely are fighting the very first time since suffering a significant eye injuries inside a 12-round thrashing as a result of Manny Pacquiao in November, keeps that his systems were clean for his or her first fight and forecasts another victory -- this time around with no taint.
"I am a clean fighter. I have not done anything illegal during my career," Margarito stated. "After I beat him again, it will likely be proof. However I understand where he's originating from.
"The man didn't have energy at welterweight. I never felt his punches. I doubt he'll have energy at 154."
Arum stated Cotto must forget about his bitterness to work against Margarito.
"The main one factor that may really hurt Miguel within this fight is the fact that he's such anger developed,Inch Arum stated. "He certainly thinks that they are illegal hands pads within the first fight, and he's an angry guy. There's no love lost between him and Margarito, but this is not on Margarito's side. I simply think if Miguel has anger, it's harmful to his performance. Hopefully, he makes use of that anger to organize for that fight and makes the ring with no anger, after which he is able to set up a far greater fight. The anger has a tendency to sap your strength."
Although Cotto has socialized appropriately and has not involved in jokes, Arum stated he could have the tension throughout the media tour once they would stand with one another for photos.
"They conduct themselves like professionals. That's a genuine plus. I can not stand the garbage speaking, but there's an intensity involved with it," Arum stated. "I'm able to feel it. I can tell it. Celebrate the entire factor very uneasy. But debate like this always sells, provides you with a story -- and it is a fascinating story."
Stated Cotto: "He sits on his side, I'm on my small side. We're close just for the images.Inch
Although Cotto happens to be a large ticket seller, Arum stated the warmth for that fight and also the grudge match position are reasons that nearly 10,000 from the roughly 18,000 available tickets were offered within the first couple of days these were on purchase now.
"They are real people purchasing tickets, not [a] casino," Arum stated.
Cotto vs Margarito will happen at the Madison Square Garden on December 3.
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