Comments Thread For: Photos: Miguel Cotto, Sergio Martinez Ready For War

[lomeli_romanza]

there is a huge contrast in size. cotto's got a decent sized upper body, but his arms are woefully short for the middleweight division.


it's unfortunate, but this fight will be determined by the level of depletion in martinez. if he doesn't have the legs, he may lose these exchanges. cotto has great, great timing.


prime martinez knocks cotto out. surprisingly, and i'd have never believed it two years ago, cotto is the fresher man. martinez style depends on his legs, and they just fell off the deep end.


the best martinez we ever saw, in my opinion, was the guy who fought paul williams in their first fight.

What a great comment bro, i couldnt agree with you more!!!

[chargerhemi06]

Did anybody notice Sergio kicking his lower leg just before he stepped on the scale? It looked to me like his knee was bothering him.

[bojangles1987]

Good move on Cotto's part to come in so light. I expected it.

As already said, this fight hinges on Martinez and whether he's broken down.

[dantheman1983]

Andy Lee looks like death.
Martinez by big KO

[Masterclass775]

Loser of this fight has to come out the closet

Freakin hilarious lmao

[John Barron]

cotto's going to sleep.

[bigjavi973]

For all those who THINKS that martinez is the better fighter. He has been dropped in his past four fights. Got a gift decision in his last fight vs murray. He beat an old pavlik who has only jermaine taylor has his notable win. An old taylor as a matter of fact who arthur abraham did better than pavlik. Chavez jr. didn't throw any punches until the last round, because he is the type of fighter who needs to set his feet to throw those big shots, so since he was down on the scorecard he just started swinging punches and dropped martinez. Matthew macklin is a nobody, darren barker is a nobody, Serhiy Dzinziruk is a nobody, Paul Williams was a good fighter but he did lose to carlos quintana, and they would have fought a 3rd time but williams got into that accident. Erislandy Lara got robbed in that Pwilliams fight. He couldn't even beat kermit cintron convincingly, and as a puertorican I can tell you cintron is ass. Other than those fighters, he has fought plenty of bums in spain and argentina to pad up that record. Oh, and when he fought for the 1st time in nevada, he got ko'd by margacheatoh and then went back to spain to fight more bums. Now, styles makes fights. I see some people here saying that cotto gets hit alot. yes he did, thats because whenever he used to throw punches he would switch up his stance and that was when he was vounorable(spellcheck). Cotto understands that now that roach pointed that out to him, (the main reason pacquiao was even able to tag him so many times). Stylistically wise, He is back to the old cotto, dig that hook to the liver, something that he has gotten away from in recent years due to his different trainers. Mayweather knows this, (dont get mad mayweather fanboys, im just using him as an example). When cotto was 31-0 and just beat mosley, he was a body hooking machine. Then, a month later after the ricky hatton fight, mayweather retired saying that he has nothing left to prove, meanwhile cotto and him was in the same weight division. He only unretired after cotto lost to margarito, changed trainers, changed his STYLE of fighting, giving up the left hook to the body for a jab and being more defensive.

WAR COTTO!!!!

[bigjavi973]

Combining the past 6 fights of the opponents that each fighter martinez and cotto have faced when they fought, you get this... Martinez's opponents past 6 fight record: 180-116-19 That means that they have lost a total of 64% of their total fights. for cotto: 164-72-5 They lost a total of 43% of thier fights. The only undefeated fighters that martinez has faced are(showing their record at fight time): Gabriel Leonidas Leiva 3-0, Ignacio Ramon Caceres 5-0-2, Frank Oppong 6-0-1. Then you have barker, dzrinski, murray, chavez jr. Undefeated fighters that cotto has faced: Carlos Maussa 17-0-0, Kelson Pinto 21-0-0, Ricardo Torres 28-0-0, Paul Malignaggi 21-0-0,
Carlos Quintana 23-0-0.
Sergio Martinez, Rounds boxed-391 ko% 50.91... Total opponents fought that has 50% ratio loss or more- 11... Records were: Villalva 4-4, Nieva 3-6, Alvaro Gamboa 8-12-1, surcica 9-14-1, Gamboa again this time hes 12-23-2, Tskrialashvili 7-9, brito 11-14-3, Surcica again this time hes 13-24-2, Tchinda 1-7-2, Madalin 3-35-2.

Miguel Cotto, rounds boxed-295 ko% 73.81.. Total opponents fought that has 50% ratio loss or more- 4... records were: Gonidez 4-10, Young 2-2, Ramirez 4-11, Lunsford 11-14-1 (*Note that all these fights were withing cottos first 5 fights, while martinez had 42W-1L when he fought 3-35-2 Madalin.)

[Divine Hammer]

wow that's a big size difference. cotto just needs to work his way on the inside and **** away. if he stands on the outside like he did against trout then he's going to get picked apart.

you can even see on lou dibella's face that this is a complete size mismatch.

[CubanGuyNYC]

wow that's a big size difference. cotto just needs to work his way on the inside and **** away. if he stands on the outside like he did against trout then he's going to get picked apart.

you can even see on lou dibella's face that this is a complete size mismatch.

Yep. Big difference. And it's likely to be a bigger difference come tomorrow night. It appears Cotto didn't even drain for this fight. Martinez, on the other hand, had to. I've been predicting Sergio from the start (no rocket science here, I know), but I admit his knee troubles have made me wonder about Miguel's chances. In my mind, they went down today.