20Sixx... How you know those blows didn't change the fight in Cottos favor?
Because Judah had PLENTY of time to recover from the one legit low blow that landed (the other time he was acting). Plus, it's not like cotto immediately knocked him out he knocked him out like 5-6 rounds later, that is plenty enough time to recover from any shot.
Boxing is a physical sport and things get dirty at times (see judah's low blow of mayweather followed by rabbit punch). If someone cannot handle getting a lil dirty from time to time then they shouldn't be boxing and proves they really aren't that good. Look at Andre Ward vs Kessler as a great example (Ward fought dirty as hell, and because Kessler doesn't know how to react/deal with tough fight, he got whooped on).
But what you do know is Cotto became dirty in the fight when it looked like he had no other resort. That we do know.
No, we do not know that. Cotto is a body puncher and many of his punches hit at the beltline, or below. That's very common with body punchers in general. When the one legit low blow occured, was cotto in any trouble? Was he on the verge of getting knocked down? Hell no, he was attacking judah. I have no reason to believe that was intentional. Trinidad is a good example of someone who low blows intentionally, cotto, I'm not so sure. There is no way to prove or disprove he threw those intentionally.
Regardless, Cotto out-worked judah and was cutting him down for the majority of the fight.
Further, what if Cotto DID throw those intentionally, what does that say? Should we all criticize him for it and make excuses? Bernard Hopkins is my all time favorite fighter, past and present. He's regarded as one of the dirtiest fighters in the game. I respect that shit.
All those statistics are flawed. Politics played a big part in his close wins against Clottey and Mosely
Even if you count those two fights as losses, they were still close competitive fights. Cant say the same for judah's losses...
There never would have been a Pacquiao vs. Cotto had they gave the right man the decision.
Again, just because YOU believe Clottey/Shane won doesn't mean it's a fact. Clottey fucked his own chances of winning by not doing shit in the final rounds. That much is known. And again, you're in the minority with the clottey fight, the majority scored that fight for cotto.
And using you're own logic - how do you know that the clottey dirty tactics (headbutt) in round 2 that caused the nasty cut over Cotto's eye didn't completely change the course of the fight? You're so quick to defend Judah by saying he only lost to Cotto because of the low blow, well cotto only struggled with clottey because of that huge fucking cut over his eye which prevented him from seeing clottey's right hands (remember cotto constantly wiping the blood from his eye so he could see??). If you use it for judah you gotta use the same logic for cotto too comrade, or else you just owned yourself.
And there never would have been a Margarito vs. Cotto if they hadn't given him the token win against Mosley.
Again see above. The majority scored that fight for cotto, as did I. So at best you can say, "well I believe shane won." Good for you. I believe Hopkins beat Calzaghe, but I accept the fact that the majority of people scored it for Calzaghe.
He got handed wins over Mosely and Clottey.
And judah got fucked up against Clottey, lost to baldimor, etc etc etc
They tried to make Mosley irrelevant by giving Cotto the win thinking he was the more bankable fighter.
lol sure "they" did. This theory goes out the window when the majority scored the fight for cotto. You might have a case if the vast majority scored it for shane, but they didn't.
Well we see how that turned out. Cotto knocked out by Pacquiao and Mosely KOing Margarito. Fuck those stats. Mosely will do the job to Pacman that Cotto couldn't do. Period If that fight ever happens lets put somethin on it.
Fuck putting something on mosley vs pacquiao, lets put something on mosley vs berto.
Joshua Clottey - One of the most dangerous Welterweights Still
And cotto beat him. Even if you believe he didn't, he went the full 12 rounds in a very close fight and even scored a knockdown. What did Judah do? Oh right got KO'd.
Floyd Mayweather - The P4P Welterweight
Great loss.
Carlos Baldimir - An underated fighter who became champ off that win
Baldimir sucks.
Corey Spinks - One of this generations best hands down, still a champ
You're smoking crack.
Kostya Tszyu - Will go down as one of boxing great warriors
Agreed, and Judah couldn't even last 2 full rounds.
Demarcus Corley - Gave everybody good fights
Cotto beat too.
Junior Witter - A very awkward fighter who makes any fighter look bad
Journeyman.
