Pacquiao admitted that the punches hurt...

Not that much, really Cotto landed had punches but not enough to really damage pac! Ch@mp, how've you been coping with it, man? I was all ready to come on here and celebrate with you Ricans, but instead it's more like commiserations after that beating. I'm still devastated, myself. :conf3:

Nah, I don't think it damaged him mentally at all. He probably has more confidence in his chin now because Cotto can bang.

Well considering he had just finished fighting Miguel Cotto, it's pretty safe to say he was referring to that fight. yeah, but pac's english is limited, hence lost in translation. but I could see why you translate it the way you did.

I don't think pac was talking specifically about cotto's punches.... I think he was talking in general that getting hit hurts but you gotta work through the pain, but I can see why you interpret it the way you do.... personally I think something is lost in translation. Well considering he had just finished fighting Miguel Cotto, it's pretty safe to say he was referring to that fight.

pacman face wasn't pretty after the fight & he was wobbled in the fight but cotto didn't act on it. Pacman basically shan sunged him.

The way Pacquiao was fighting late into the fight it didn't appear that he was at all afraid of getting hit by Cotto. Pretending to not be hurt and fighting as if your opponent can't really hurt you are totally different things. I'd take that as a pretty good sign that no, Cotto didn't take any of the fight out of Pacquiao.

I think Cotto and Margarito more or less, ended each other's careers that night. I agree..That was a war...There are people in bad car accidents who walk away with less head trauma than these two inflicted on eachother..

but Pac isn't smiling everytime he tasted those bombs, is he?

I thought the same thing http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=326526

...during the post fight press conference. However he said that he was 'pretending' to not be hurt by them to defeat Cotto mentally as well as physically. Cotto landed his share of hard shots on Manny, but Manny took them better than even I expected. Although Manny took Cotto's shots well, I'm wondering if Cotto put enough leather on Manny to possibly affect Manny's future performances. Cotto is a very heavy handed puncher, not a one punch KO guy, but someone who definitely does damage over the course of a fight. I'm still convinced Cotto took some of the fight out of Margarito. Although he lost that fight, he landed some hellacious shots on the Tijuana Tornado. And I think those heavy shots affected Tony in his next fight with Shane. With that said, is it possible that Miguel Cotto landed enough, hard, true Welterweight punches to possibly take some of the fight out of the Pacman? I don't think pac was talking specifically about cotto's punches.... I think he was talking in general that getting hit hurts but you gotta work through the pain, but I can see why you interpret it the way you do.... personally I think something is lost in translation.

I think Cotto and Margarito more or less, ended each other's careers that night. Possibly, that was a brutal fight.

Smiling after a hard shot usually means it hurt, see Winky Wright and Floyd Mayweather. Yeah, I wanted to say this a while back.

He did a damn good job of it, too. Seeing Pacquiao just shrug off those shots and smile must've destroyed Cotto mentally. Deceptively, perhaps, it looked like he had no power - even though we all know he has big time power and could've given anyone else a much better fight. Pacquiao's chin is more granite than Margarito's.

I think Cotto and Margarito more or less, ended each other's careers that night.

I said the same thing. For all we know, everytime Margarito smiled, Cotto may have hurt him and not known. Mentally that could mess up a dude but Shane was very strong mentally and didn't back up.