Cotto vs Lara

The Trout fight is meaningless. Cotto was having issues with his trainer. He didn't come in prepared to fight. Of course, as a professional, you are SUPPOSED to always be ready, but stuff happens in real life. Anyone who saw the Mayweather fight, and then the Trout fight, can tell you, in Mayweather's words even, "That's not the Miguel Cotto I (Mayweather) fought." It was the worst performance I'd ever seen from him. At the time, I didn't know that it was related to training issues; I thought perhaps that the wear and tear of boxing had finally caught up to him. Nevertheless, that fight woke Cotto up to his training issues, and now everything has been cleared up. He's with a great trainer in Roach; Cotto has been performing excellently since the change. A Cotto-Trout rematch now would likely be close to the Geale fight in terms of outcome. The same goes for Lara, although I think a Lara fight would last longer. Cotto is better than both. **** off with the excuses. If Mayweather rematched Cotto straight after like he did Maidana and fought how he did against Manny he'd shut Cotto out! Fact. Floyd laid on the ropes all fight!

Not even that competitive! 9-3 Lara. Lara does what he does better. Cotto wouldn't have any answers in that fight.

Lara skools Cotto, Cotto can't beat skilled fast boxers.

Cotto vs Lee also interesting he can do a cw also

Lara wins on points by using his speed and defensive and offensive boxing skills. Cotto likes to work behind his jab but Lara has an even better, longer and more accurate right jab than Cotto's left jab. I think Lara would land his long straight left often and he might even get the KO although he is a safety first type of fighter. Lara outboxed Trout by a mile and Trout outboxed Cotto. Cotto has improved with Roach and might beat Trout in a rematch but he will never beat Canelo or Lara in my opinion..

Laura by utter and embarrassing domination.

Lara wrecks him I pray for this fight lol

When the stage is biggest - Lara will freeze. He's so overrated. The Trout fight for Cotto was a one off - his worst performance and he took an L. He came out flat and lost. It really doesn't define anything. The mediocre Lara we saw two weeks ago is the same Lara we've always seen. If Cotto who showed up for Geale fights two weeks ago against Lara, Lara would have ran sprints outside of the ropes. The dude is so gunshy ever since Angulo put them paws on him. He's literally surviving off of his loss from P. Williams.

Cotto's conditioning was pretty awful against Trout but even then it was a winnable fight for him. The mistake Cotto did is that he didn't take rounds off similar to what Canelo did, he also had an opportunity to rest after a low blow and decided to quickly resume the action.

Trout beat Cotto 11-1 on my card. Lara shuts Cotto out. No, absolutely no way. That was an 8-4 fight and if one decided to give round 9 to Cotto (I didn't) a round in which the commentators found close, it's a 7-5 fight. Just an overrated performance by Trout if one looks at the many thoughts that were expressed on here afterwards.

Lara runs a 5K in the fight.

Trout beat Cotto 11-1 on my card. Lara shuts Cotto out. LOL, this guy again with his score cards. this is worse then your 9-9 score for round 1 in the Cotto/Clottey fight. Oh wait, never mind.

Cotto gets absolutely schooled. Being an excellent out-fighter, Lara is going to use his height and reach advantage to maximum effect. Cotto would struggle finding him, and with cotto's habit of leaning over his front foot, I would expect Lara to lace him with left uppercuts at will.

Lara would beat him worse than Trout did.

Trout beat Cotto 11-1 on my card. Lara shuts Cotto out. Just in time, and Mr. Brush My Hair didn't even finish his bottle of Haterade...

I'm waiting for the Trout/Lara triangle theories. ... Trout is a Boxer. Lara is a Master Boxer. Lara Master Classes Cotto.

Trout beat Cotto 11-1 on my card. Lara shuts Cotto out.

I'm waiting for the Trout/Lara triangle theories. ...

Cotto by questionable, but completely justifiable decision. Like a 7-5 Cotto or 6-6 fight. Against most fighters that level or near it, Lara will always do just enough to arguably win, but never enough to make it clear.

It's tough, Cotto can win but he'd have to invest in the body early and doing that is gonna be extremely difficult against Lara who's very defensive minded. The early rounds would be key since I have no doubt Lara will give up 3-4 rounds since he goes lapses without doing anything. Cotto would have to get dirty as well, rabbit punch if need be and punches on the thigh.