Fair is fair so, since I wrote What Happens If Manny Pacquiao Loses, I had to take a similar look at the fate of Boricua Banger Miguel I’m No Angel Cotto should he falter Nov. 14.
So here goes…
An archipelago of 97 million celebrates while the island nation of Puerto Rico has a very minor, very temporary funk…
When he gets done with the bean counters and wading through all the cash, Bob Arum assures Cotto that he has plans, big plans, for him. Those plans start with the revenge rematch, which goes on automatic pilot, against Antonio Margocheato…
Arum, who says Panama Lewis should be banned for four lifetimes for similar cheating, plays Harper Valley hypocrite in defending the critics of Margarito’s return…
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Trainer Joe Santiago will play the fall guy for losing to Pacman. He will be retained in the camp but, for the Maragarito bout, Cotto does go out a retain a more savvy and experienced trainer…
It leaks out that Cotto went into the Pacquiao bout with a tender left hand. He rarely throws a jab in the bout and it is overlooked that jabbing Pacquiao can’t keep him off you for long anyway…
Emanuel Steward rushes to the postfight press conference when he drops his HBO microphone and is more than happy to reveal how Cotto’s fight plan was disastrous…
Juan Ma Lopez quietly assumes the mantle of Puerto Rico’s Numero Uno boxing hero. Despite his own limitations, Lopez is viewed as the future while Margarito, only age 28, is viewed as the past. Yet Margarito will fight another four years…
Privately, Tito Trinidad and his father, Don Felix, will be glad that Manny won because they never accepted Cotto as the heir apparent to Tito anyway….
Fired trainer and uncle Evaneglista Cotto will tell Primera Hora newspaper that, if he had still been the trainer, Pacman would have been KTFO’d…
There will be some minor calling for a Pacman rematch but Manny puts Miguel in his rear view mirror and looks forward now to either his Moby Dick, Floyd Mayweather, or Sugar Shane Mosley for March of 2010…
Without loaded handwraps, Margarito will defeat Cotto in a bruising fight which shortens the careers of both fighters. This fight is so good that Arum instantly announces a rubber match between the two rivals..
Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-5699-NY-Boxing-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Manny-Pacquaio-wins-Miguel-Cottos-island-nation-goes-into-funk
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