It will be like the Margarito-Miguel Cotto fight. In that fight, Cotto gave everything and Margarito, who has a granite chin, simply took the blows and moved forward. Margarito was simply too strong, too relentless. In the end, Cotto caved in. Dan Rafael’s accounts captures this:
Cotto, with an obvious speed advantage, dominated the first half of the fight. He threw lots of sharp, fast combinations to score points, but he could never hurt "The Tijuana Tornado." Undeterred, Margarito just continued to walk Cotto down. He bloodied his nose and mouth and began to take over the fight in about the sixth round. Cotto fought with the wrong game plan. He never worked the body, and he's a terrific body puncher. He also languished on the ropes, which was the one place he should never have been. When they were fighting in the center of the ring, Cotto dominated. When he was stationary on the ropes, Margarito -- whose eyes were a mess after the fight -- could finally land his punches. And when he connected during a relentless assault in the 11th, Cotto finally took a knee to get away from the incoming, just the second knockdown of his career. He showed heart to keep going because he was in bad, bad shape. Moments later, Margarito scored another knockdown. Again Cotto rose, but this time his trainer and uncle, Evangelista Cotto threw in the towel in a move that you can't criticize. It was the end of a fabulous fight and one of the best in the history of the storied Mexico vs. Puerto Rico rivalry.
But let’s see. Who knows Shane still has something inside him.
