Miguel Cotto: "I Don't Need Mayweather"

[Sin City]

Sorry Cotto....Floyd doesnt need you....but YOU need Floyd...trust me...

There's plenty of fighters out there for Cotto to establish a legacy.. he doesn't need Floyd.
If anything he can fight an old ass worn De La Hoya like Mayweather did and get the same credit..

[Sin City]

you guys give cotto too much credit. He is fighting GOMEZ... GOMEZ are you ****in serious?? he thinks hatton is overated. cotto is overated. he beat a 10 year age difference mosley. cotto will get completely manhandled by mayweather get your facts strait.

cotto only calls people out and then sais. talk to bob arum. so he is an idiot. He is fighting a ****in bum from the contender. you guys don't give cotto a hard time but always maywetaher a hard time. cotto mayweather would generate 600 thousand ppv buys. look at cottos numbers. not that it matters but maywetaher aint fighting that bum unless he beats Oscar, Hatton and so forth. If cotto wants to be the best then HE HAS TO FIGHT THE BEST. Cotto is acting like he has been the number 1 p4p fighter for the last 5 years... Cotto should fight oscar then see if he can compete with the big guys. Mayweather is just laughin at you haters. and once floyd beats cotto is will be "oh cotto was pre-prime fighter" HAAHAHAHAH YOU ****IN NEVER RUN OUT OF EXUSES HATERS...

6 belts 5 weights 39-0. Maybe thats why he is the best pound for pound fighter in the sport (COTTO) YOU ******.

Gomez is a tune up for Margarito. next...

[Xplosivo]

There's plenty of fighters out there for Cotto to establish a legacy.. he doesn't need Floyd.
If anything he can fight an old ass worn De La Hoya like Mayweather did and get the same credit..

No he wont get the same credit . Difference being DLH at 154 would beat Cotto.

[Sin City]

No he wont get the same credit . Difference being DLH at 154 would beat Cotto.

No a prime DLH would.. not the DLH of now. sorry..

[wmute]

Yes, but that doesnt have to be all he wants, as it isnt all that I want. The man should make the money, money shouldn't make the man. And it isnt like Cotto is getting paid with rocks unless he fights Mayweather either.

Clearly.

I was just pointing you that money is the motive for fighters building up their status.

Look at Maywaether's early career... excellent competition. why? to make noise. Now cashing in. Cotto wants to unify so he can cash in later. It's normal and there is nothing wrong with it, we can cheer for our favorite fighter all our lives, diss the ones we dont like, and call them names if they dont fight who we want, we can do that when we are 80yo, if we dont feel ridiculous.

But at the end of the day boxers can fight olny until 35 or so, and after that, they are not going to be making much money (especially with the possible, likely in fact, injuries connected to boxing). Mayweather is not ******, but with all the time he spent training he is ignorant and surely did not learn any other job but boxing. The same goes for most fighters, surely for all those who started early like Cotto, Hatton, etc. Their careers basically pay the bills for the rest of their lives.

[Addison]

WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto is not concerned with chasing after Floyd Mayweather Jr, who holds the WBC's version of the title at 147-pounds. In the opinion of Cotto, there are more than enough big names at 147-pounds to keep him busy. [details]

There's more to than just that for many Cotto supporters and Boxing observers. They sincerely feel that Miguel has a stylistic advantage that would give him a better chance than virtually anyone to beat Floyd. I guess they find the situation more frustrating than Miguel does. Alot of these same people think Cotto could lose to a lesser fighter because of styles. We'll have to see if it ever comes about, personally I don't see it happening.

[deevel79]

So why doesn't he give up the belt?

Your guess is as good as mine.

[BigPenis69]

No a prime DLH would.. not the DLH of now. sorry..

If Ricardo Torres can drop Cotto I'm pretty sure Oscar De LA Hoya can tko him. That being said I dont see Floyd beating Cotto.

[edgarg]

He already did that. Where were you when 23 year old Mayweather fought and beat down undefeated p4p king Corrales? Mayweather isn't a true WW, never forget that, it's only natural his resume doesn't look as good in that category (even though i'm sure you'd consider it good for another fighter, lets say katsidis , having both 43-0 Hatton and De la Hoya in it).

Subject: Corrales and Mayweather fight


This is an brief account of the weigh-in for this fight by T K Stewart, who is a very well known boxing writer as well as a Barney Award winner. Corrales had given up the 130 class 6 months before and was campaigning as a lightweight, when Mayweather saw his opporunity to take advantage of him and, as Corrales said in a pre-fight TV interview, when saying that is was VERY hard to make the weight, "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse".....
Corrales actuakky needed the money to pay his lawyers, as he was facing Jail.


Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Diego Corrales, MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 19, 2001 - The fighters are weighing in and Corrales misses making the 130-pound mark his first time. He comes back about an hour later and strips down to nothing. I'm standing beside HBO fight judge Harold Lederman, and he says, "I haven't weighed 130 since my Bar Mitzvah!" Corrales looks like a prisoner of war he is so skinny. 6'0" tall and 130 pounds. His skin is gray and dry and he looks like he's close to death with hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. He looks like one of those starving African kids you see on those UNICEF commercials as his head looks too big for his emaciated body. Only a few of us are there. Jose Sulaiman, Marc Ratner and a handful of others. If Corrales doesn't make the weight there is no fight...He steps on the scales and everybody takes a deep breath....130 it is! Miguel Diaz his trainer erupts in celebration. The fight will go on!

Hi Edgar,

It was an interesting fight for sure.

A few weeks before the fight, Corrales had a couple of his wisdom teeth
removed and this kept him from training for several days during a critical
point in his preparation. Diego was also dealing with the spousal abuse
charges that eventually sent him to jail for over a year not long after
this fight took place. His mind was elsewhere, and his trainer Miguel Diaz
told me it was all he could do to get Corrales to come out of his bedroom
from playing video games to train. They trained for this fight at the
Prince Ranch just outside the Las Vegas city limits.

Whatever the case, Corrales was actually a 5-4 favorite at the Vegas
sportsbooks when the first bell for this fight rang, so a majority of the
people actually thought he would win it. I believe he would have won as
well had his weight not been the real issue for him. I picked him to win,
but after I saw the weigh-in I knew he had no chance. The man was
emaciated and he was totally spent. He looked physically ill and he no
doubt was. His eyes were sunken in his head and his skin tone and color
was corps-like.

As for his performance in the fight? It was unusual. He had no pop on his
punches, there was no speed and he was always a step of two behind Floyd.
The shots that caused him to sink to the canvas weren't anything like he
withstood against Jose Luis Castillo Acelino Freitas or Joel Casamayor in
later fights. Your theory is the best explanation for his performance in
that fight.

That was a big fight and it was tainted by the weight problem. I would
have loved to see the two of them do it again at 135 or 140 but it doesn't
look like a rematch will ever happen now. Corrales is also damaged goods.
The first fight with Castillo probably ruined him and the struggles of
trying to make 130 and 135 over the years has also played havoc with him.
My guess is that Corrales is pretty much at his en

Let me add to the above that Larry Merchant has often said, that when he was passing Corrales' dressing room just before the fight, " I saw him stuffing a huge sandwich into his mouth, he was starving".

[edgarg]

Edgarg's theory

My "theory" is that Corrales was, because of excessive re-hydration before the fight, suffering from hypo-naetraemia, which every years, somewhere causes death.