Honestly, why was Cotto running without trying to fight let alone win?

He shot himself out. Cotto always fights more than he should in the beginning rounds. He didn't pace himself and he tried to brawl with pac in the wrong occasions. He has a lot in common with Jermaine Taylor. If they tried too hard they get fatigue faster. After cotto was knocked down the first time he tried to recover the round by knocking pac down, but all he did was waste his energy. And the second knockdown was an exchange of punches. Which was a big mistake and changed the fight from there on. Cotto hurt pac, he just wasn't able to finish him off. all Cotto need is to measure pac and not try to out punch him. He could be losing all the rounds, but if he saved his energy and only tried to knock him out when Pac was hurt he had a better chance of winning.

Cuz he let lil Pac get past 6 and got tired and whomped.

Some of the same people that praise Cotto for being a warrior are the same ones that bash Chad Dawson and Andre Dirrel for being runners. So the double standards come into play to suit agendas. I hate all three guys, but I apply what I see across the board.

im still hurt by this fight

Hatton is overrated. Watch JMM pick him apart easily. meh... diaz was beating jmm and diaz is feather fisted. not saying jmm won't win, but hatton will give jmm a lot of trouble.

Cotto knew that Pac chin was able to take his best shots and he didn't have a chance to win a decision so the last thing was finishing the fight, I can't blame him.

When Cotto starts moving backwards things are always going downhill for him. He has some boxing skill but he is just not the type of fighter who can move away and win atleast if his foe does not let him off the hook like Clottey and even Mosley to a certain extent. When watching Cotto train you could tell there was a steady rythm to it but he was training to go at his own pace. There is some merit to training at your own pace if a fighters style is based on controling pace but in both of his loses Cotto got brought into the other guys pace and that was not what he was trained for. Manny trained to go 12 hard rounds all out, Cotto trained to go 12 rounds at his own pace you saw the results.

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because he didnt want to get hit anymore?? with all the punishment he received from pacquiao, its only natural for cotto's body to say enough is enough. atleast he didnt do a victor ortiz. lol

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I just think he should have went out on his shield. At the end of the day it would have been a KO loss, but they are KO losses that can be looked at as a badge of honor (Hearns vs Hagler) and there are those looked down upon (Tyson vs Seldon).

Cotto did the best he could, but what I do not get is that, you know you are not going to win, you know you will get KOed, why not go for broke and get stopped without embarrassment rather than get stopped while being booed after trying to play keep away when the other guy has six times your speed?. cause he called hatton overrated and didn't want to get KTFO like hatton.

Evidently, not everyone has the same ideals. Ah well.

Because at the beginning of the fight he was going all out and it wasn't working.

plan b..........boxing....he was having some success...but he "ran" too much imo......................... He power boxed for the first three rounds. Tried to box on his toes for the next three, and then gave up all together and booked it without even trying. I honestly believe he should have said fukk it and looked for a bomb, since he knew he wasn't making 12 rounds.

Tough to think like that in the ring. Survivial instincts take over...he was trying to survive. He wasn't going through his options saying "well if I go for broke maybe I'll save face and people will call me a warrior". What happened was the natural progression of the fight.