Sergio Martinez wants to retire cotto

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WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-2-2, 28 KO’s) figures that the beat down he’ll be giving challenger Miguel Cotto (38-4, 31 KO’s) in their HBO pay-per-view fight on June 7th will send the 33-year-old Cotto into retirement after the fight and put a wrap on his long 13-year pro career when the two of them face each other at Madison Square Garden in New York.
Cotto’s career is limping along with now with him having been beaten in 2 out of his last 3 fights. He has a new trainer in Freddie Roach who has been giving him a lot of pep talks, and has him throwing a bit more to the body than he has in the recent past, but Cotto is still basically the same fighter that was out-boxed by Austin Trout and Floyd Mayweather Jr. recently.

“I know that Cotto is working very hard for this fight with Freddie Roach but there is no doubt in my mind that this will definitely be his farewell fight to what was a great career. We will have to see if Cotto can handle MY body shots.”
Cotto is really facing what could be another stoppage loss if Sergio is healthy for this fight, and if he doesn’t suffer another hand or knee injury. In Sergio’s last two fights against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Martin Murray, he’s had hand and knee problems that have hobbled him. That’s one of the reasons why Martinez wasn’t nearly as effective in his last fight against Murray than he otherwise would have been. But a healthy Sergio will be a nightmare for Cotto, both as far as his ability to punch and to move around the ring.

Roach’s plan for Cotto in this fight is pretty simple. He plans on having him attack Martinez to try and get to him with hooks to the head and body in hopes of scoring a knockout. Roach will have Cotto fighting Martinez the same way he did his last opponent Delvin Rodriguez, because Roach is under the impression that he’s rejuvenated Cotto after that win. I personally believe that’s the case. I just see it as Cotto having been matched up against a fringe contender that he was able to easily beat in Delvin Rodriguez, so he naturally looked good against him.
If Cotto does take a whipping in this fight, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya says he’ll still match Cotto against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in his next fight. There are options available for Cotto, but I think a fight against Canelo would definitely be seen as the end game for Cotto if he were to lose that fight.

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Pfff moet hij nodig zeggen. Bijna 40 jaar, meerdere knie en hand blessures, in zijn laatste 3 gevechten heeft hij de canvas 3 keer bezocht en tegen zijn laatste tegenstander(die geen echte topper is) bijna verloren. Enige wat Martinez nog bezig houdt is zijn miljoenen contract met HBO waarin hij volgens mij nog 2 gevechten heeft staan.

Ik hoop toch echt voor een winst voor Cotto. Al jaren een van mijn favoriete boxers en hij verdient een 'career defining win' zoals deze na alles wat hij heeft doorstaan in zijn carriere.

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Ik kijk echt uit naar dit gevecht! Een maand later ook Canelo vs Lara, ook een leuk gevecht.

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zeker goede gevechten, en als het nog doorgaat golovkin vs chavez jr.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg6hgpalB-E

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middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-2-2, 28 KO’s) will be the B-side in his fight next month against Miguel Cotto (38-4, 31 KO’s), even though he’s the one with the title in this fight. Cotto is the proven pay-per-view star, and the fight is taking place in his stomping grounds in New York. But Martinez, 39, isn’t really all that worried about potentially being robbed by the judges in the fight, because he intends on turning them into mere spectators by knocking Cotto out.

“I am not worried about the judges being swayed in this bout or any questionable decisions, because there is no way this fight is going the distance,” Martinez said.

Sergio might turn out to be correct with his belief. This fight is going to be a really tough one for Cotto because he’s not faced anyone with the kind of power that Martinez has in his career. The biggest puncher that Cotto has faced during his 13-year pro career was Manny Pacquiao, and he had Cotto wilting almost immediately. Cotto was dropped in the fight, and he then was pretty much useless and playing it safe for the remainder of the fight until getting stopped in the 12th round.

The other fighters that Cotto has faced during his career were guys with light to medium power such as Floyd Mayweather Jr, Antonio Margarito and Ricardo Mayorga. None of those guys are big punchers or even close to being big punchers.

It’s going to be difficult for Cotto to last long in this fight once Sergio starts sitting down on his shots. Cotto will do okay as long as Martinez is just touching him with jabs, but when he starts sitting down on his shots, it’ll likely be over very quickly with Cotto hitting the deck after swelling up.

Trainer Freddie Roach has Cotto believing that he’s a rejuvenated fighter due to Roach having Cotto using his left hooks a lot more than he used to. However, Cotto doesn’t have the reach to land his shots unless his opponents stop dead in their tracks and let him walk up on them. Sergio has never been the type of fighter that just stands there in one place. He’s constantly moving, even when he’s got injuries to his legs.

Martinez will not let Cotto land his shots because he’s going to be on the move constantly and staying on the outside for as long as this fight lasts.

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With their big HBO pay-per-view match-up now less than a week away, WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-2-2, 28 KO’s) says he’s in top shape and ready to knock Miguel Cotto (38-4, 31 KO’s) out in their fight next Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York. The 39-year-old Martinez says Cotto will regret having taken the fight with him after he gets done with him.
Martinez’s surgically repaired knee is ready to go, and he’s not going into this fight having re-injured his knee like he did in his previous fight against Martin Murray last April. Sergio’s knee was 70% for that fight, and he also had an injured left shoulder and a fractured left hand that he hurt in the fight.

“I’m going to win the fight. I know I’m going to win by knockout,” Martinez said to HBO. “I’m absolutely convinced I’m going to do it. You made a mistake in taking this fight, Cotto. It would be impossible for me to be at a higher level. No human being can be more powerful than I am. That’s what Cotto’s going up against. He’s facing me at my best in the ring. I’m sure Cotto only took the fight after seeing my fight against Martin Murray.”
If Martinez is the same fighter that beat Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. in 2012, then it could be a really rough night for Cotto, because he doesn’t match up at all with Martinez before his fight with Murray. Cotto would likely beat the Martinez that labored to a close 12 round decision against Murray, but definitely not against the Martinez that took care of Chavez Jr. two years ago. Martinez was way too good at that time for Cotto to handle.
Cotto has got to hope that Martinez isn’t the same fighter that he was before because it could be bad for him if he’s not. Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach believes he’s recreated Cotto to bring him back to vintage form due to his expertise in tinkering with his fighting style, but even in his prime years, Cotto would likely be out of his class against Sergio. We’re talking about a bigger fighter in Sergio with more of the Floyd Mayweather Jr/Roy Jones Jr. style of fighting. Cotto doesn’t do well against those types of fighters.
I don’t know that Roach has changed Cotto at all. He’s talking about having changed him but he seems like the same fighter he always was in looking at his recent fight against Delvin Rodriguez.
One thing that Cotto does have going for him in this fight is the long period of time that Martinez was out of the ring. He was on crutches for 7 months due to his injured knee, and he’s missed a great deal of time. Martinez also seems to gotten a little flabby around the midsection in putting on weight that wasn’t there previously. It’s doubtful that Martinez will have dropped that weight by the time he steps inside the ring on Saturday night, so it’s possible that Cotto could beat Martinez on just superior conditioning. Cotto looks in top shape right now, and he’s going to be hard to beat with him in such peak condition.