Cotto's departure from Emmanuel Steward

I believe it was schedule and money. Steward wanted training camp to start later than what Cotto wanted and he was asking for a bigger purse. Diaz was the right trainer for the Margarito fight.

Out of nowhere today, Kellerman went in on Cotto today. Basically saying his decline was in part due to him taking the easy way out in training for fights (location, quality of sparring partners, trainers). In part Ill have to agree with that statement. I love Miguel but there is somthing missing from his trainimg camps. Could it be quality of sparring? Strength and endurance? Diet? Dedication o stuberness to give 110%, do one more? Distractions? I dont know. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android

At the time, it seemed like a calculating, almost cold move by Cotto to distance himself from Emanuel Steward and begin training with Pedro Diaz. In hindsight, it occurred to me that Miguel and Emmanuel might have discussed the separation personally and decided it might be best due to Emmanuel's health problems that we all weren't aware of at the time (at least I wasn't.) I have a completely different take on the situation now, but I could be totally wrong about this. What do you guys think? Agreed. Its very possible that they talked about his Steward sickness and that was part of the breaking away along with some disagreements regarding schedules and monies Now, Ill like to know more about the reason behind breakimg up with Diaz. Posted from Boxingscene.com App for Android

Out of nowhere today, Kellerman went in on Cotto today. Basically saying his decline was in part due to him taking the easy way out in training for fights (location, quality of sparring partners, trainers). Fuck Max Kellerman. In his defense, he's hard to understand with Paul Williams' dick in his mouth.

Out of nowhere today, Kellerman went in on Cotto today. Basically saying his decline was in part due to him taking the easy way out in training for fights (location, quality of sparring partners, trainers).

At the time, it seemed like a calculating, almost cold move by Cotto to distance himself from Emanuel Steward and begin training with Pedro Diaz. In hindsight, it occurred to me that Miguel and Emmanuel might have discussed the separation personally and decided it might be best due to Emmanuel's health problems that we all weren't aware of at the time (at least I wasn't.) I have a completely different take on the situation now, but I could be totally wrong about this. What do you guys think? IMO Diaz was a good trainer for Cotto.

This was a business relationship between two guys that had respect for each other. Cotto and Steward's schedules didn't match up and his very personal and emotional rematch with Marg coming up. Also heard money could have played a part. I'm sure Cotto was saddened by his passing and offered his condolences. Dude is pure class.

Lets not put Cotto in an unfair position here. Sure they must have respected eachother a lot but in the end this was a business and they might not have been friends at all. I'm sure Cotto was saddened by his death.

Did Cotto even attend the funeral?

It was a bad decision in my humble, but honest opinion.

I was waiting for Cotto to throw a R.I.P. Manny on his trunks or something but I never saw that he did. Seemed kinda weird to me.

Cotto was worried about his rematch with Margarito and wanted a coach by his side earlier than Steward was able to do it. Cotto said they were cool on a personal level and looked forward to the possibility of working with him again, no bad blood at all-my words not his. From what I remember that was the gist of it though.