Don King, on Mike Tyson


"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison, not to Princeton."



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Wrong Righted?

Cotto wins via 9th round TKO:

Cotto wins via 9th round TKO

The fight ends before the 10th begins as Referee Steve Smoger stops it on the advice of the ringside doctor. Cotto was on a way to an easy win.... Cotto was the fresher and the more active fighter ...
This ending probably did not prove Margarito cheated the first time around.  It proved more about the state of his health after the Manny P. fight.  His right  eye was injured in the fight  against Manny P and he lost his vision in his right eye during this fight..  


Margarito would not be the first fighter to lose his vision permanently.  Sugar Ray Seals* reputedly boxed while mostly blind during his final few fights.  



*Sugar Ray Seales ;Tacoma, WA
Height: 6-1 (Southpaw)
Professional Record: 56-8-3 (33 kayos)
Amateur Record: 338-12


Sugar Ray Seales, the only American fighter to win a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics, was a contender for the Middleweight title during the late 70's and early 80's.  In a 1980 fight with Jaime Thomas, Seales was thumbed in the eye, tearing his retina, and he gradualy went blind. Seales retired in 1983....



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