With the weekends results in as regards Cotto-Margarito II, as I suspected, once the bell rang in Madison Square Garden this past Saturday night, the cool, calm, and collected veteran Miguel Angel Cotto would set aside any vengeful feelings, and or animosity towards Margarito knowing it may detract from his performance. The end result would be that Miguel would put in no less than a dominant effort, as well as a boxing clinic, en-route to retaining his WBA title as Ring Magazine?s number 1 ranked junior middleweight in the world. A further assumption of mine was that Cotto would control all aspects of the first half of the rematch as he had done in their previous bout, by boxing circles around the Mexican brawler who?s skill level as a pugilist does not begin to approach that of the Puerto Rican champion in any way, shape, or form. But what intent observers, to include many a former opponent of Margarito? were looking for, was to see how this return match would play out during the second half, as compared to that of the first encounter between these two fighters in 2008, where it is widely suspected that Antonio had the added benefit of his hand wraps solidifying in the latter half of that fight as a result of his accumulated hand sweat intermixing with a plaster type substance, after which the Mexican fighter would pound Miguel into submission. As an offer of proof, Cotto would present a photograph seemingly depicting Margarito? hand wrap as being cracked, rather than torn as Antonio would suggest.
