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Miguel Cotto defeats Sugar Shane Mosley in a Close Decision

Miguel Cotto defeats Shane Mosley in a Close Decision in a packed house at Madison Square Garden. The fight did not disappoint in any way as it was action packed throughout and provided some twists and turns. Both fighters put on a beautifully violent performance where there were no losers, especially boxing.

Sugar Shane started the fight out fast, opening with a pair of body shots of all things. This foreshadowed the interesting role reversal in the later rounds. The Puerto Rican Star quickly found his mark with his jab and was able to touch Shane pretty consistently.

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Round Two to Round Five were increasing violent as Shane stood flat footed and stayed in the pocket winging single and double overhand rights off Cotto’s brain. Cotto often found his mark with a punishing jab, solid hooks and a vicious straight right. Both fighters showed great chins and incredible resilience to stand up to the punishment.

Round Six saw Mosley switch up the game plan and bounce on his toes with Cotto stalking. Even though Shane has way more experience in big fights, Cotto seemed way more poised. Both fighters continued to land sizzling punches. Cotto’s slightly harder, Mosley’s more flash.

In Round Nine the fight took a shift as Cotto seemed hurt for some reason that wasn’t easily apparent to us at ringside (it was later determined that Cotto suffered a cut inside his mouth and was swallowing blood, much like in the fight with Zab Judah.) Mosley now was the aggressor and Cotto moving and counterpunching.

Rounds Ten and Eleven were more of the same with Mosley stalking and Cotto moving and counter punching. Mosley was throwing with bad intentions and not “shake and baking” like he usually does. The amazing thing was that Cotto was effectively fighting while backing up and landing the cleaner punches on Sugar Shane.

Round Twelve had very little fireworks and possibly kept this fight from becoming a classic. No doubt it was a great fight. The close decision, that truthfully could have gone either way, went to Cotto.

The punch stats for the fight were amazing: each fighter landed 248 punches. Cotto’s were slightly cleaner but depending on what you were looking for, the fight could have been won by either boxer.

Fedoras off to Shane for staying in the pocket and making this a great fight. I have never been the biggest Sugar Shane fan (more a result of so many other good welterweights from his era), but his heart and class and graciousness in defeat won me over. If this is Shane’s last fight, he built quite a legacy for himself, and in my mind he finally deserves the nickname “Sugar”. Cotto has a great future ahead of him and Boxing has another star. You would have to be a fool not to want to see Cotto fight the winner of Mayweather-Hatton.

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Michael Porfirio Mason
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