Imagine the atmosphere at either San Juan or MSG for a Tito Trinidad-Miguel Cotto Super Fight? If they did that in PR they would have had to shut down the Island. Let's say the Tito from 1999 vs the Cotto of 2007....who wins and how does the fight play out?
Wow! What an event! The island would literaly shotdown for this!
I would say: Tito by mid to late KO/TKO
Best chances are for Miguel 1-3 KO (Tito was a bit shaky on his early rounds) or an unlikly split decision.
Tito would knock cotto out. He would take more of a beating than what PAC and marg gave him.
Being that these two are my favorite
fighters I would much rather see a prime cotto vs a prime macho camacho and the Tito who ruled the welterweight division with 14 title defenses(he holds the record) vs a 147 prime manny PAC with no damn catchweight. I could just here the PAC fans already planning to jump me for
this but Tito would put PAC to bed early and
tuck him and say night night around the 7 round. Now
cotto vs camacho would be epic
because they would probably hate each other and talk crap like when cotto fought mayorga
Tito Trinidad would be seriously outboxed by Miguel Cotto. Against a 'good' boxer Trinidad stands no chance. Hence De La Hoya, Hopkins and Winky Wright. In my opinion Cotto is better than a 'good' boxer but is not a superior boxer. Cotto in 12 round unanimous decision.
Iceman, would u rather be Mexican or Puerto Rican if u had to choose for boxing purposes ?
Hmmm....well, Ive been to PR and Mexico, boxed in both places...I like PR better LOL
Right now if you mathc Canelo vis Chavez Jr somewhere in Mexico you would have that type of electricity.
Maybe a Pascal/Bute bout in Canada might produce the same
I think if Cotto had more of a reach, then I would pick him in a UD/SD
As it is, his T-Rex arms won't allow him to keep Tito at bay with movement and his jab, so the gap is closed and Tito land them bombs
So I'd say probably a UD or TKO12 for Tito in the end.
I like Trinidad vs Benitez more. Benitez took flush shots from Hearns and Duran and didn't fold. He was bigger than Cotto, his defence was superb, and he damn near matched Leonard in the speed department when they fought. He would have made Trinidad miss a lot. Could go either way when you think about how good Benitez was in his prime. If not for Leonard and Hearns, Benitez could have ruled for a long time. 3 division champ.
Tito is my all time favorite fighter...
Now as far as that event would go it would be ridiculous!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love cotto but tito would completely knock his head off, in a short amount of time.
I would've loved to see a fight between a prime Fernando Vargas and Cotto too..
I think in terms of being in the arena on fight night it would be hard to imagine a more intense scene...I mean, as big as Ali and Frazier was in 1971 it was a lot of middle class white people in the building that night...Puerto Rican fans of guys like Tito and Miguel aremuch more intense and vocal and energetic...every single person in the building would be into the fight in a huge way....energy to spare...
Insane event. Tito would stop Cotto.
But food for thought....if you've followed Cotto's career closely, for all of his defensive flaws, for whatever reason he hardly ever gets caught with left hooks.
Imagine the atmosphere at either San Juan or MSG for a Tito Trinidad-Miguel Cotto Super Fight? If they did that in PR they would have had to shut down the Island. Let's say the Tito from 1999 vs the Cotto of 2007....who wins and how does the fight play out?
trinidad would take his head off
it would really be a matter of the decisions cotto makes:
if he went full retreat he might last a while
but if he went in there like he fought in his prime at 140 and his brief, pre marg tenure at 147 he would get absolutely murdered
you're talking about a totally different class of offensive fighter
think about the guys that wobbled cotto badly
judah
corely
torres
tito would finish the job. kayo in less than six.
different size and frankly class of fighter
it would be a serious occasion in NY and PR for sure.