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Conley
12-04-2011, 09:17 AM
NEW YORK -- Miguel Cotto, with three years of anger built up, took it all out on Antonio Margarito and his bad right eye.

Cotto beat on his rival and turned his eye into a swollen and bloody, closed mass to stop him three seconds into the 10th round in what many equated with a triumph of good over evil on Saturday night in front of a rocking, sold-out crowd of 21,239 at Madison Square Garden.

The overwhelmingly Puerto Rican pro-Cotto crowd came to see their hero gain revenge for his controversial 11th-round knockout loss to Margarito in Las Vegas in 2008.

Not only did Cotto deliver in emphatic fashion, but he looked sharp and fast in the process of making his second junior middleweight title defense to culminate a highly charged and emotional build-up.

"He's still a very strong fighter, but I am way better than he is," said Cotto, who led 89-82 on all three scorecards at the time of the stoppage. "I am very happy to finally get it over with. I did my work. I won the fight. Thanks to the crowd here. I love you."

http://espn.go.com/boxing/story/_/id/7313481/miguel-cotto-breaks-antonio-margarito-tko

MMC you see any of this footage yet? Looks like a good fight. I'm going to look for it.

MMC
12-04-2011, 09:28 AM
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Morning Day-Walker! :evil:

Nah.....I didnt even know they was fighting. :embarrassed: