"I didn't get a chance to see Cotto's fight with Martinez yet. I've been away. I had to step out for a second. We been running all around since we got back in town, so I didn't get a chance to sit down and watch it, but, I would've picked Martinez if I would have seen Martinez fighting healthy. If I would have seen Martinez fighting healthy before this fight, I would've just said flat out I'm going with Martinez. But with them surgeries and that long of a layoff, he's fighting rust and healing and you ain't the youngest guy coming into the game anyways," stated world-class trainer Naazim Richardson, who weighed in on Miguel Cotto's dominant victory over Sergio Martinez. Although Richardson hasn't had a chance to watch the fight, he knew going in that Cotto might be too much for Martinez to handle.
"I just think that was too many battles for him to overcome with Cotto being as focused as he is right now. Cotto is trying to close out big. He knows he's closer to the end than the beginning and he's very focused. Cotto wants to leave with dignity," he explained. "See, Cotto is a natural middleweight. He's a middleweight the way Jake LaMotta and them dudes like that was middleweights, so they are strong because that's their nature; especially guys like them that get leverage on their shots. They can dominate the ring. You get a guy like Miguel Cotto not missing meals and he's gonna be strong as hell in there, and from what I have read about the fight, he definitely was. I'll have to sit down and watch it!"
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