How does Cotto expect to beat Mosley with his terrible defense ?

[Addison]

That's not even what I was reffering to, I forget what round it was but Cotto carelessly ran into a punch and he staggered backwards, he did recover though. I will try to find the round and post the video.

It's at the end of the 9th round. Same round.

Legs got tangled like he said - but it was a good shot.


Cotto got staggered 28 seconds into the same clip.

STAGGERED. They can make any excuse they like. Cotto did his little Cotoo Dance when he gets hurt and you can see it after he lets go of Paulie.

[Addison]

That's the punch I thought he was referring to at first too. It's hard to notice unless you look for it. Cotto got hit on the back of the head and was staggered for a brief second. Nothing to fuss about.

The right hand before that was the hurting shot.

But the back of the head shot helped it.

[WLAD OWNS]

Lol. Betting points here is one thing, betting paychecks, you obviously dont love yourself or your family. Betting on this fight is ****** at best. It could go either way. Cotto HAS the tools to HURT Mosley, I doubt to KO him but he can hurt him. Mosley as well can break thru his offense and hurt AND KO Cotto. This is one of these fights, unlike Mayweather - Hatton ( that we all know that Mayweather is far superior in every sense of the way than Hatton ). Let's just wait and see.

I don't need to support a family, I'm only 20 and my birthday is November.10 on fight night, believe it or not. I am having a party at my crib and I am ordering the PPV.

My paycheck isn't huge either, I am just driving a forklift until I go to college next year. I am confident that Mosley is gonna pull it off.

And I was exagerrating when I said I was betting half my paycheck.

[Wiley Hyena]

Cotto isn't planning on boxing Mosley, he thinks he can come forward and steamroll Mosley. Cotto even said "nothing can stop me" like he is superman or something. Cotto is underestimating Mosley's power and he will leave his chin exposed when he comes forward and brawls with Mosley. Oh well, Cotto's below average defense is gonna help make me a lot of money on November 10.

Cotto's chin is "squishy" not glass. Never been knocked out. How do you guys rate Mosely's chin?

[WLAD OWNS]

Cotto's chin is "squishy" not glass. Never been knocked out. How do you guys rate Mosely's chin?

Mosley's chin isn't iron, but it's pretty damn solid. It's Mosley's body durability that I am worried about, I can't really recall him being hurt to the body though.

[Thread Stealer]

Mosley's chin isn't iron, but it's pretty damn solid. It's Mosley's body durability that I am worried about, I can't really recall him being hurt to the body though.

forrest hurt mosley BAD to the body in their first fight. round 10 with a left hook.

[Addison]

Cotto's chin is "squishy" not glass. Never been knocked out. How do you guys rate Mosely's chin?

Molsey's chin is great. An extremely solid chin.

The only time he was ever seriously hurt was after he was dazed by a massive head butt and caught with a fully extended straight right hand that he most likely couldn't see very well. After that he was hit with an uppercut that appeared to make his brain momentarily seize up.. After which he got back into the fight and won rounds and was able to hurt his opponent.

Mosley isn't a defensive fighter though. Shane and Miguel are going to love fighting each other. Both want to slug - but Cotto will be the one who has to back off when they start landing.

[WLAD OWNS]

forrest hurt mosley BAD to the body in their first fight. round 10 with a left hook.

Yeah, but Forrest is the only guy who has ever seriously hurt Mosley. Forrest was a 6 foot tall Welterweight with huge reach, Cotto is a 5,7 Welterweight with short arms.

[Addison]

forrest hurt mosley BAD to the body in their first fight. round 10 with a left hook.

He did that's true. But that shot landed on a BRAND NEW surgery scar on Shane's waistline.. I'm pretty sure it was appendix. Shane has clarified that recently, but didn't seem at all interested in taking away from Forrest's accomplishment. The video is here at Boxingscene I'm pretty sure..

And again.. That was Vernon Forrest on the greatest night of his life. The shots he was throwing were some of the most vicious ever anywhere.

[Thread Stealer]

Yeah, but Forrest is the only guy who has ever seriously hurt Mosley. Forrest was a 6 foot tall Welterweight with huge reach, Cotto is a 5,7 Welterweight with short arms.

well i think de la hoya did land some good body shots that bothered him, but didn't hurt him seriously. vargas did good body work on mosley in the first fight, but mosley was still going strong in the latter rounds.

mosley is not vulernable to the body, per se, but a guy with a vicious body attack like cotto can hurt or wear down almost anyone to the body.

usually a good way to discourage an opponent from doing good body work is to counter to the head well, but cotto seems disciplined and keeps doing what he does.

a plus for mosley is that the punches he seems most vulernable to are the straight right hand and the jab. cotto has a nice jab, but his speciality is the left hook to the body, which mosley usually defends way better than the straight right to the head.