?When you have the opportunity to dominate eight of the twelve rounds, you don?t expect anything less than victory??
He?s not alone. There are others who believe Miguel Cotto beat Canelo Alvarez Saturday night in Las Vegas, even though they?re in the minority. The judges, not always the most reliable barometer of who did or did not win a fight, got it right on this occasion, even though their numbers appear to have been skewed in Canelo?s favor.
Appearing Monday on Primera Hora, a morning radio program in the friendly confines of Puerto Rico, Cotto was dead certain that he had defeated Canelo.
?When you have the opportunity to dominate eight of the twelve rounds,? he said, ?you don?t expect anything less than victory.?
Some of the muckamucks sitting ringside had Cotto winning, which is more disconcerting than surprising. But even La Prensa, the newspaper of record in Mexico, and presumably a Canelo partisan, ran a headline in its Sunday edition which read: ROBBERY IN LAS VEGAS.
(?Judges defeated Miguel Cotto and gave the middleweight championship of the World Boxing Council to Mexico?s Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez.?)
Robbery, like boxing, like just about everything, is in the eye of the beholder, and there may be more people than I?m aware of who think Cotto won the fight.
Effective aggression aside, I suppose it?s possible.
But if they were to fight again, which seems unlikely, Miguel Cotto would lose a second time.
