
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.