The answer will be clear after 5/5/2012 but after a thread the other day, I wonder about Cotto’s fight night weight against Pac more than his 145 weight-in. It looked like Cotto didn’t rehydrated too much(like ODH did) after the 145 lb weigh-in. He looked smaller than on his jww fights which make me wonder if there was any rehydration clause on his contract???
Photoshopped photo(Cotto from the Clottey fight)
http://thenewschronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pacquiao-vs-cotto-02.jpg
Actual photo of the fight
http://www.boxeo.ws/files/images/Manny_Pacquiao_vs_Miguel_Cotto_pelea_3.preview.jpg
Thanks for sharing this brutal, short and sweet fight. Zamora and Gomez had Ko% 100 and Zarate only one fight by points. I wonder if they were fighting bums by then(started watching boxing on '99) and if they would be capable of such high ko% with the pillow gloves of today.
I watched the fight again but this time I used a sound software to filter out the commentators and crowd's noise and this is what I found:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHkkJM-LjHs
They hit like a mule?
It might have something to do with Colombian men having sex with donkeys.
Look it up.
:D :D :D
I thought about that too...Here is the 15 min documentary(It has an epic ending):
Based on the Segura-Calderon fight I thought Segura was the bigger man, but Viloria was as tall and physically the bigger man . It was painful to watch Viloria land 99% of his left hooks on the skull fracture... Thanks for the upload:boxing:
For some unknown reason Chris John reminds me of orangutan Island(great show though):
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Christianjohn.jpg/200px-Christianjohn.jpg
http://travel.mongabay.com/malaysia/600/borneo_5276.JPG
http://www.boxeo-boxing.com/images/Chris-John-Titulo.jpg
http://images.allmoviephoto.com/2001_The_Animal/rob_schneider_the_animal_001.jpg
I agree...Luis got robbed. For a moment right after the fight was over I think one of Berto's staff said we have to work the scorecards or something like that and then the long wait that usually means robbery...
At their primes I believe 1-Tito, 2-Oscar,3- Mosley. To me the main difference is that Tito and Oscar usually landed theirs on the side of the jaw while Mosley land his straight down the pipe,right on the middle creating a more concussive shot as he snaps their heads backward instead of sideways. Just to compare, see Mosley's left hook against Vargas,Mayo and Margarita(8th round) and see Trinidad's left that he stopped Campas with which was right down the middle...he almost decapitated Campas with it and yes if wasn't for the referee holding him he would of land to the floor face first.
Randall Bailey is the only guy that comes close to a Julian Jackson punch. He leaves guys comatose. His right hand is harder than everyone's else choices.
I read somewhere after his fight with Cotto, that Bailey landed a huge right hand on Cotto that dislodged a couple his teeth and Cotto ate it which surprised Bailey. A couple of years and wars later Cotto couldn't tek Manny's pounches and I don't understand why...his punch resistance is gone perhaps?
Thanks for posting this awesome fight thephantom5. I don't understand Japanese but you can feel the energy from the commentary team...take notes hboring commentary team.
They definitely took some magic away with that boring commentary. I hate when they are in the middle of a boring personal thought and something spectacular happens, and they finalize the thought before commentating on something meaningful that just happened .
Juan La Porte > Anyone you guys can think of
He took the best shots of Salvador Sanchez, Azumah Nelson, Julio Cesar Chavez, Kosta Tszyu and John John Molina and went the distance with all of them.
I believe he also fought Wilfredo Gomez and went the distance too. I’m in no position to judge his chin as I only seen him vs Chavez and he did not looked like a guy that gets hit cleanly often(good defense and skills). How he did against all of those mentioned boxers?
There was a documental on the National Geographic Channel called "Fight Science" in which they unfold the fighting facts and the fictions with the latest technology measuring devises. On the fighting’s arts a former boxer and trainer (heavyweight) was the hardest puncher at almost 1000psi with a right cross to the dummy chin, even a skinny kun fu Asian scored over 600psi with short fast punches so prime Tyson with that speed would’ve been over 1000psi for sure. Overall the hardest punchers were the Olympic brick busta champions with a little more than a ton. The hardest was the shoulder shot at little over 4000psi and the mothafucka destroyed through a wall of bricks. That are the fact guys, this 2 hours documental was great! Oh the two finger under arm ko was proven a fact by the ningitzu(sp?) master…That was AWESOME…
Sabia que lo habia visto,el es el welter colombiano que aparecio en showbox unas semanas atras...no se quien es la japonesita lo que se es que me facinan :D
who do you expect him to fight when the other contenders and champions wont fight him?
really, who in their right mind would want to fight a 5'11", hard hitting, iron-chinned, brawling welterweight?
100% agreed
He is listed as 5'11'',27 years old with 72'' of reach.As much I love Hatton and Cotto I won't want them in the same ring with that tough son of bitch :(
I've been following Floyd for years and there no doubt in my mind of his in-ring skills he has all the talent to be great,when he is focused he's flawless.He understimated Castillo in their first fight but got lucky with the judges.Some people thought he lost that first fight including myself and HBO commentators.Hes a judge favorite,with that said the only way to beat him is knocking him out IMHO.