Cotto vs Zab a few questions.....

[R.Winky Wright]

I don't want anyone to think i'm stirring up **** but, when i saw the fight a few things stuck out to me. I would like to mention also the i am a Cotto fan.

1) was it possible for zab to take cotto out in the 1st round after he rocked him. Zab didn't seem to pounce on Cotto when he knew he was hurt. it's like he hurt him and then continued to box??? Cotto was all over the place but Zab would let him off the hook. he did it in round 1 and round 3.

2) Zab looked like he still had allot of gas left in the tank when he quit? he also wasn't throwing punches. Do you think he was either trying to wait for cotto to gas out or do you think he was hurt in some way. I dunno i honestly though after cotto got rocked the fight was just a matter of time till he got Koed? but i know cotto has heart. and hits damb hard! I watch allot of boxing as well.... just some things sit funny with me about this fight.

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Late in the fight even when he didn't look tired its like Zab's brain turns off and back on again and he's just a stick that moves and sometimes throws a punch or 2. I think he wants to knock the other guy with one punch. He waits and waits and then Cotto pounds him with body shots and the same thing continues.

[Undocumented]

Having watched the fight again, I don't see Cotto ready to get KOd...He got caught, and off balance, but ready to counter to that little Zab chin. Zab has been traumatized by the Kostya KO. So he lost that courage to go in...even if he thinks he has hurt his opponent. Self doubt of the CHIN. Fear.

Anyway you look at this fight, 97-91 on cards, would have been 98-91 w out point deduction for Cotto. Zab was beat down. The End.

I would LOVE rematch...NO excuses..just a brutal KO in less time.

[Left2body]

1) For some weird reason Cotto recovers quickly. I'm not sure if its due to him not being REALLY badly hurt and just stunned or if he just recovers that quickly but you'll see that 5-10 seconds after being sparked against Judah he seems to have his legs back and is pressuring again.

I think Cotto was sparked by Judah but not as badly hurt as someone people think and not as hurt as he was against Torres or Corley. In those fights when he was hurt he was trying to dance away from them and hold on. He didn't try to run from Zab or hold on like he did in the Corley/Torres fight's in which he was REALLY hurt.

2) Judah's wasn't waiting for Cotto to gas out he was taking punishment as illustrated by him taking a knee even though there was no 1 particular punch that had hit him especially hard. I think Judah could've gone for a little longer but I think he would've finished that round on his knee or back if the referee didn't stop it. Cotto's attack was constant and never ending.

[Soundtraveler]

1) For some weird reason Cotto recovers quickly. I'm not sure if its due to him not being REALLY badly hurt and just stunned or if he just recovers that quickly but you'll see that 5-10 seconds after being sparked against Judah he seems to have his legs back and is pressuring again.

I think Cotto was sparked by Judah but not as badly hurt as someone people think and not as hurt as he was against Torres or Corley. In those fights when he was hurt he was trying to dance away from them and hold on. He didn't try to run from Zab or hold on like he did in the Corley/Torres fight's in which he was REALLY hurt.

2) Judah's wasn't waiting for Cotto to gas out he was taking punishment as illustrated by him taking a knee even though there was no 1 particular punch that had hit him especially hard. I think Judah could've gone for a little longer but I think he would've finished that round on his knee or back if the referee didn't stop it. Cotto's attack was constant and never ending.

Very nice post, I agree, Judah was looking for that opening for the uppercut, unfortunately, given his lack of vision in one eye, and Cotto's unrelenting attack, what may have seen like an open shot to t.v. viewers, may not have looked that way in the ring...