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Can Antonio Margarito Beat Miguel Cotto?

Saturday night's Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito fight is widely expected to be one of the best boxing matches of the year. But in talking to a lot of fellow boxing fans about it, I've yet to hear anyone actually say they expect Margarito to win.

In fact, I was a little surprised to see that the odds are only -265 for Cotto. The way people are talking about Cotto, you'd think he was more along the lines of a -500 favorite.

Cotto does deserve to be the favorite. He's the undefeated WBA welterweight champion and, more importantly, the No. 1 ranked welterweight according to Ring magazine.

But Margarito is 32-5 and the No. 4 welterweight, and I absolutely give him a chance of beating Cotto. Margarito is coming off a dominant win over Kermit Cintron, and I'm not sure if Cotto has fought anyone as relentless as Margarito.

And yet ... I just can't bring myself to pick the upset. I think Cotto will win it with a late-round TKO.

We'll be live blogging the Cotto-Margarito fight here at FanHouse.

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