| Written By Jim Cawkwell |
| Posted On 8/18/2008 |
 While becoming the world’s best welterweight, Antonio Margarito annihilated the Oscar de la Hoya exit strategy. Miguel Cotto had all of the qualities required in order to complete the ideal scenario of De La Hoya’s final marquee appearance. And contrary to foolish claims of Cotto’s cowardice for bowing out in the eleventh, it is clear that Cotto might have done so much earlier and spared himself the beating of a lifetime.
Though Cotto continued – giving us glimpses of brilliance – he could have walked away long before he did; perhaps after the second round in which Margarito bloodied his face and began to drain his resistance; or sometime during the seventh when he endured a relentless pounding for three straight minutes. As Cotto emerged for the tenth and crossed himself, he must have sensed himself as close to death in the ring as ever he had felt. Indeed, Margarito is to be feared ...
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