will we ever see the 'OLD' cotto again?

[BMWM3P]

If anything this is old vintage Cotto, when he started out his career he fought in this measured way taking his time and making his punches count.

[kadafee]

Cotto has almost always been that way.. he fought like that early in his career.

yeah i know, i've been following his career closely since he turned pro, he has always been a fast 'slick' fighter such as in the abdulaev, ndou and sosa fights but he was more of a come forward slick educated pressure fighter, since the gomez fight he has been different, i think gomez gave him some kind of false belief that he was a better counter puncher than he is a pressure fighter.

[kadafee]

Where are you coming up with this ****? I don't know if you got the news update, but Cotto won by TKO after he knocked his opponent down three times. He fought a perfect fight! His body shots were amazing and his footwork. The one thing he didn't do in the fight with Margarito was tie him up while his back was against the ropes. Cotto admitted he didn't believe in doing that as a strategy in any of his fights. That was before he watched Mosley use that strategy against Tony to beat him. All Mosley did to beat Marg was throw combo's, then tied him up to allow the ref to give him back his space till he worn marg down.

yes i watched the fight and it proved to me cotto will have some problems when facing elite fighters such as joshua clottey.

[Sin City]

yeah i know, i've been following his career closely since he turned pro, he has always been a fast 'slick' fighter such as in the abdulaev, ndou and sosa fights but he was more of a come forward slick educated pressure fighter, since the gomez fight he has been different, i think gomez gave him some kind of false belief that he was a better counter puncher than he is a pressure fighter.

I've never known Cotto to be a "slick" fighter.. More of a technical boxer puncher that applys lots of pressure. He does what gets the job done and doesn't worry about being flashy.

[rj_ct]

Cotto has almost always been that way.. he fought like that early in his career.

exactly. this was the cotto of old. it seemed like after he became jr. welterweight champion he started with that brawling-look-for-the-knockout-first style. now he's going back to what made him a champion in the first place.

and he did not fight smart against margarito. that's not what got him beat. his game plan was terrible when he fought margarito.