By Miguel Rivera
WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is distancing himself from anything that happened surrounding Manny Pacquiao in the May 2nd 'Fight of The Century' with Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Cotto, who ironically was the last person Pacquiao scored a knockout over in late 2009, now shares the same trainer as the Filipino star. Although both men are trained by Freddie Roach, they rarely talk when they see each other.
Roach has said in prior interviews that he tries to keep their training camps separate at all times because there is a little bit of animosity from their 2009 encounter.
Cotto will not touch on the subject of Pacquiao's defeat, the controversy with the shoulder injury, and even refused to compare his own 2012 performance with Mayweather to that of Pacquiao.
"I do not usually talk to Manny. When he comes here [to the Wild Card Gym], he greet us. He has his way of thinking. Miguel Cotto has his own way of thinking. I have no comment on any of that. I have no opinion and Miguel Cotto has nothing to do with Manny Pacquiao's career. Every fighter is different and I do not know what was going through Manny's head. That situation is something that has to do with Manny and Freddie - it has nothing to do with me," Cotto said to ESPN Deportes.
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