By Mark Vester
WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto feels that his last opponent, Zab Judah, is more dangerous than former three-division champion Shane Mosley. Cotto defends his title against Mosley at New York's Madison Square Garden on November 10.
"Yes, I think he [Judah] was. He was a more dangerous fighter than Shane. I don’t think at the age of 36 years old Shane can handle Miguel Cotto. I’m just going to do my thing. I never think about what Shane Mosley is going to bring on November 10. I’m just going to do my thing the best way I can," Cotto said.
Jack Mosley, Shane's father and trainer, has accused Cotto of being a dirty fighter, and both father and son have questioned the durability of his chin. Cotto says that a fighter will do whatever he has to do in order to win, even if it means bending the rules. And he feels that every fighter gets hurt at some point, it all about how a fighter responds when he gets hurt.
"Every boxer is going to get hit in the ring. Everyone’s going to get hurt some time during a fight. It’s just a question of what you’re going to do with it. Are you going to respond or are you going to fall? And I think that I responded every time I’ve been hurt in the ring. And the question I have for them, what will happen to Shane Mosley when he gets hurt in the ring? Will he respond to it? I know I have," Cotto said.
"And the question about the dirty fighting – this is a fight, this is professional fighting. You do what you have to do to win and so things that happen in the ring are going to happen. And whatever it takes, that’s what I – you know, whatever it takes in the ring, I’ll do – and a– to get a win and I will do it."
Cotto later said that his two low blows against Judah were not intentional.
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