Where would Cotto be without vacant title

imagine cotto has to fight real belt holders instead of C- fighters to be called world champion. Where would his career be. Instead of fighting the mighty kelson pinto, cotto fought guys like kosya tszyu, ricky hatton, junior witter, arturo gatti. No way he beats tsyzu or hatton at his say at 140. I'll give him a chance against the late gatti but witter's movement would have sure given cotto fits just like malinnaggi did Instead of fighting the one hit wonder quintana, he had to fight mayweather, cintron, williams for the welterweight title. he would have lost to mayweather and williams. maybe a slugfest against cintron to see who can quit the fastest Instead of fighting the greatest michael jennings, floyd actually fought berto and mosley for the 2nd time. berto is too green and mosley would have kod him this time around Vacant titles made cotto. It allowed him and gave him excuses to fight C- D- fighters and calling it title shot. Without that vacant titles people would have gave him hell for fighting these never was has been, corley, urkal, branco, abdulaev, shot as hell zab, alfonso gomez, jennings, quintana, pinto, bailey.... Agree