I want to see Mayweather tested against Paul Williams.
How would he fair against someone with a good jab.
Cotto seems to be the easier option, he is too slow, has a questionable chin and would get UD'd or KO'd.
Alot of people see Cotto as the danger man at Welterweight. I think Williams and Cintron are more dangerous.
Yeah, certainly an outcome that I can see.
-Floyd not being around long enough for Cotto to do anything substantial...
-Clean right hands from Floyd early being the telling punches on the scorecards as Cotto gets started too late...
-Floyd using his guile, stamina, mental toughness and ring awareness to dictate the fight in a smart showing.
All I hope is that these guys prove what's really real with it in the ring later this year.
As I posted in other occasions, this one is not on top of my wishlist, I wanted to see PBF fight, and I knew that would happen in the Hatton fight. As far as PBF goes, that was my dream fight.
Anything can happen in boxing, though. And if Cotto can make Mayweather fight a fight and not a chess match, without being frustrated and losing punch variety, it could look really good, as with Cotto's size and power Mayweather would need to dig deep and take risks. Mind, making Mayweather fight the fight you want to fight is not an easy task by any means.
I DO think it is going to happen after Cotto fights Oscar.
people seem to have forgotten that cotto only looked good when mosely stood in front of him, mosely outboxed him when he was up on his toes.
The one round where Shane got on his toes and "boxed" Shane did little to no damage. It was a very nondescript round and I even remember boos from the crowd. You say Cotto only "looked good when Mosley stood in front of him," but how about Round 11 when Cotto won the entire round by fighting off the back foot? If anyone was being outboxed in that fight, it wasn't Cotto.
If a mosely can do that, mayweather will just nullify cotto and then ramp up the pace in the later rounds, similar to the way he fought hatton.
I still think there is a big chance that cotto's chin will get exposed.
Cotto aint Ricky Hatton man. Big difference in not only size, strength, and power..but style and versatility too.
Cotto's win against Judah was impressive. He was in trouble and lowblowed Judah which I though a good strategy to take Judah out of his gameplan.
I not saying it legital thing to do but it was a good stratgey even if the ref took one point from Cotto. Judah is not focused fighter at all so the lowblow will take him whole out of his gameplan.
For people who say well it lowblow and blah blah blah. I would say anything to do to win. Judah didnt have the mental capablitiy to go on through the fight he got 10 or 20 sec of a super performance in a rough intell Cotto comes and control the more than 2:00 of every round.
So therefore your also saying Mayweathers chin is questionable too cos Judah dropped Mayweather. You couldnt make a point with an arrow.
Cotto is a very difficult fight for anybody and I hope he whoops PBF
you are an idiot.
I want to see Mayweather tested against Paul Williams.
How would he fair against someone with a good jab.
Cotto seems to be the easier option, he is too slow, has a questionable chin and would get UD'd or KO'd.
Alot of people see Cotto as the danger man at Welterweight. I think Williams and Cintron are more dangerous.
I'm a Mayweather fan but he would either have to stick and move the whole fight against Cotto (and lose by decison) or stand and trade (and lose by KO). And it isn't that Cotto is the better boxer (no one in the game right now is a better boxer than Mayweather) it's because Cotto is a MUCH better fighter than Mayweather. He is too big, too strong and hits way too far for Mayweather, plus his boxing skills are top notch.
Mayweather is smart and knows this. hence, the fight will never happen.
Do you want some scientific explanation of
"cotto is slow"
What the fuck dont you understand about that?
Mayweathers punches are faster than Cotto's.
Judah buzzed Cotto and had him on queer street.
therefore "his chin is questionable".
I could go on...
So therefore your also saying Mayweathers chin is questionable too cos Judah dropped Mayweather. You couldnt make a point with an arrow.
Cotto is a very difficult fight for anybody and I hope he whoops PBF
Why are people writing Cotto off? Are you trying to plant the seeds of you demanding a bout with Williams even after Floyd faces Cotto. I can already seeing it in the making.
remember when jack mosley asked shane "why arent you using that jab we worked on in camp" Mosley looked at him, rolled his eyes and said hmm i dont know, like are you seeing what the F is going on? boxing is unpredicatable, sometimes an advantage one fighter thought they could count on turns into their worst liability.
Cotto made Mosley's jab look trash...
Mayweather easily decisions Cotto. The plodding slugger version of Cotto got stunned by Judah early. Mayweather is probably a slower starter than Judah but the feeling here is that Mayweathers stings will hurt a lot more than Judah's and Mayweather is a terrific finisher when he hurts a guy. As mentioned previsouly in this thread though Cotto is a lot smarter than just some plodding slugger, so it stands to reason Cotto wouldn't take the careless chances and expose himself to Floyd the way he did to Judah.
For the fight to last Cotto needs to land a haymaker early or some manner of lucky shot to get Floyd's attention before round 5 or it will be a public blood-letting. "Pretty Boy" Floyd would become Floyd the butcher and cut up Cotto something awful. Asuming Cotto lands early and gets Floyds respect it will go all 12 with little drama in a one sided boxing clinic, W12 Mayweather
Ignorant claims with no valid reason pisses anyone off.
remember when jack mosley asked shane "why arent you using that jab we worked on in camp" Mosley looked at him, rolled his eyes and said hmm i dont know, like are you seeing what the F is going on? boxing is unpredicatable, sometimes an advantage one fighter thought they could count on turns into their worst liability.
Mosely could have boxed Cotto's ears off. Instead he stood right in front of him for almost the entire fight and didn`t get up on his toes.
When he was on his toes, Cotto looked slow, ponderous and easy to hit
You should've been on Mosley's shoes that night then.
Prediction: Cotto beats Floyd's ass in a jaw dropping, oh shit kinda way, by the end of the fight Jr will look like Sr and his tears will be legitimate and unrehearsed.
maybe we dont want to spend 15 minutes typing each post.
MAYBE we want to state the obvious.
MAYBE its none of your fucking business what people say
if you dont want dialogue on a subject why are you here?
Sadly I have to agree that Cotto is not a difficult matchup for Floyd.
But he has to fight whoever comes through. If there's no one who can touch him, so be it. It's the same story for Wlad at HW. Ibragimov, Povetkin, Chambers, etc., don't seem to have it but Wladdy has to fight them anyway.
Well both Floyd and Wlad are human and have some weakness but the problem with people thinking to beat Floyd you need to outbrawl him, intesive pressure and out speed him. Most fighters are going in the wrong direction in giving Floyd a loss. To beat Floyd you need to outsmart him which is pretty diffcult to do. I seen alot of fighter in boxing but none have the same ability as Floyd, it is as if he controls the whole ring and knows even what is outside the ring is happening just watch Sharmba and Brussle fight. So his focus is amazing. In boxing or any sport it not how many stuff you could do and what you could do. but its how you could use it effectively these stuff.
As for Wlad his clam and compsure is what give him a huge advantage over many HW. But also Sultan have the same thing even though he left his power with Panama Lewis but he is more composed taking time with his shots. Patiecne is the key goal.
People are saying about Chavez having a thick head and Pryor having a thick bone chin. Whe it more amazing if you could sense and feel everything happening in the ring.
But at the end if Floyd makes the fight look easy remeber this, He trains x2 as hard at the gym to do it. So no it not easy fight at all.
Sadly I have to agree that Cotto is not a difficult matchup for Floyd.
But he has to fight whoever comes through. If there's no one who can touch him, so be it. It's the same story for Wlad at HW. Ibragimov, Povetkin, Chambers, etc., don't seem to have it but Wladdy has to fight them anyway.