La Batalla: The Battle Is Upon Us Cotto-Margarito!!!!

The battle is upon us fight fans, Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. This is on paper the best fight of the year. This is a fight fan's fight. Two Mexican Warriors who come to fight in every fight. These two guys do not take a fight off or show any signs of giving less than their all. Blood, sweat, tears, cuts, nothing stops these two guys from fighting. So here we are approximately 49 hours from the walk in of these two fighters into the ring at the MGM Grand. Who is going to win? Well the slight majority says Miguel Cotto, but no one is counting out Antonio Margarito. Margarito has been avoided a lot in his career and Cotto has avoided no one. That statement right there makes this fight great already. Cotto has defeated Shane Mosley, TKOd Zab Judah and Carlos Quintana. Margarito has brutally KOd Kermit Cintron, not once but twice. I know but who is going to win. Not an easy answer. Last time we saw Cotto, he was moving on his toes and boxing. So now we know Cotto has officially mixed his style up and can box and throw power shots toe to toe. As a welterweight, he has not been as vulnerable as he was at junior welterweight. His defense has improved and he takes punches better. The key for Cotto in this fight is to of course work the body. The brutal body shots Cotto throws can slow anyone down. He needs to stay on his toes and not just go to a power shot war with Margarito. They will engage in hard exchanges, but Cotto should mix it up. Keep moving the head and not allowing Margarito to have a steady target. Cotto does not want to allow Margarito to bull him into the ropes. Margarito loves to get fighters in the ropes and go to work. Cotto needs to know where the ropes are, and avoid it by all costs. Cotto also can effectively switch to southpaw without being confused. This is a great tactic to land some great power shots on Margarito who has a slight weakness to southpaws. This weakness was exposed a little in Margarito's fight against Paul Williams. As for Margarito, he needs to use his reach advantage and jab. Keep Cotto on the outside of his jab. Margarito lands his best power shots when he has room to throw them, so he does not need to let Cotto smother him. Margarito maybe stronger than Cotto, so he should use that strength. Push Cotto into the ropes to wear him down. He needs to make Cotto use his legs and then wear them down by making it rough. When on the inside, work the body of Cotto. Cotto has shown tendencies to get winded throughout a fight, so help him out with those body shots. As I stated earlier, these guys will exchange power shots. Margarito could possibly have the harder punch, making an exchange his advantage. However anyone can be exposed by a power shot they did not see coming. Margarito wants to keep his hands up and make it rough on Cotto. Damn, I am getting goosebumps with anticipation and excitement over this fight. I do not in anyway think these fighters will let the real fans down. They come to fight, they have both trained extremely hard and they both realized the true importance of this fight. The winner of this fight will undoubtedly be considered the #1 welterweight in the world. Also this fight will be for Cotto's WBA Welterweight Title. Cotto is 32-0 and he does not plan on losing his 0. Margarito wants to win to get that glory his heart and career has so long desired. Lets see who gets what the want. Tune in this Saturday July 26 to HBOPPV to catch what possibly could be the fight of the year. You absolutely do not want to miss this fight.