Photos: Miguel Cotto Training in New York For Clottey

[williamhvx1]

mera puneta!!!!

[Puntoyhauf]

I'm down. Reply to confirm and I'll sig it.

confirmed...20k that Clottey beats Cotto. I'll sig it.

[SicarioVDL]

I think Clottey is good, but not elite. If he was elite he would have knocked out a shot Diego Corrales who hadn't fought at 147 before. Cotto is gonna have to do a lot more to be considered an all-time great than just beating Clottey.

ok...why does everyone keep talking and saying that Cotto needs to fight or do a lil bit more to be consider an all time boxer or an elite fighter!!? is like saying who has Mayweather and Pacquiao fought that make them Elite and so much better!!! LMAO!!! come on, please..theyve probably fought like 6 to 8 boxers that were really good, the rest is trash.... Im going for Cotto over Clottey any day...we all know that piece of **** Margarito cheated and had to **** up hes record...

[ricky1978]

Cotto by UD, not a KO. You will need a train to KO Clottey

[Iceta]

ok...why does everyone keep talking and saying that Cotto needs to fight or do a lil bit more to be consider an all time boxer or an elite fighter!!? is like saying who has Mayweather and Pacquiao fought that make them Elite and so much better!!! LMAO!!! come on, please..theyve probably fought like 6 to 8 boxers that were really good, the rest is trash.... Im going for Cotto over Clottey any day...we all know that piece of **** Margarito cheated and had to **** up hes record...

Why are you bringing Mayweather and Pacquiao into this? I never even said anything about those two. The best victory on Cotto's resume is a controversial decision over Shane Mosley and on top of that he has never beaten a legit titleholder for their strap. He's always won vacant titles. I'm not trying to sound like I hate Cotto, I'm just trying to keep things in perspective.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

Are you kidding me? He looks scared? WTF?

I hope you are being sarcastic because he looks like ready.

I agree. Miguel looks focused and in shape to me. Saturday night is gonna be an awesome fight.

Guerra Cotto!

[prsi]

This is the best shape that i have seen Cotto for fight in the past 3 years and proof of that is not the pictures on PrimeraHora.com from yesterday (06/06/2009) the proof to me were some pictures made public at the begining of May, when he received the visit of his Mom in gtraining camp in Florida.

At that time we were 1 month away from the fight and he already looked thin and his abs where as cut as it would normally be 1 week before the fight.

I think the training camp away from PR did good on him phisically and mentally because, with no distractions around him, he seems more focus.

You never know probably the got to the wheight early just to see how would it feel if they need to come down 2 or 3 more pound under 147 for a possible fight against Pacquiao afterwards. But that's just me speculating.

Bottom line is that Cotto is the type of boxers that never has had a pronounce or extremely visible cut abs, and for this fight he had them 1 month ago.

I'm glad he did train hard because Clottey is not an easy fight.

[prsi]

Where did you find those pictures? I wanna see more!

The pictures are from Primera Hora. Here's the link to the report just click on where it says "imagenes del entrenamient publico":

http://www.primerahora.com/diario/noticia/boxeo/acciondeportiva/miguel_cotto_entrena_al_aire_libre_en_el_bronx/304714

This was outside public training that Cotto did for the fans in the Bronx, New York, yesterday (Saturday 06/06/2009)

[prsi]

Why are you bringing Mayweather and Pacquiao into this? I never even said anything about those two. The best victory on Cotto's resume is a controversial decision over Shane Mosley and on top of that he has never beaten a legit titleholder for their strap. He's always won vacant titles. I'm not trying to sound like I hate Cotto, I'm just trying to keep things in perspective.

I disagree with you that Cotto in not yet an elite fighter. I must admit that he's not as elite as pacman or as pretty boy, but Cotto has great previous fight which he has drawn great PPV's a arena crowds, (example Zab Judah, Mosley and Margarito) and i mention those 3 not only because they are 3 of the best fighters he face, it's because at the moment Cotto face them, they were not a big PPV or crowd draw. Which is the proof that Cotto was the "main ticket" in those fights.

I also disagree how you call "controversial decision" the fight against Mosley, because it wasn't. I must admit that it was a close fight but Cotto clearly won the fight and even Mosley admitted on the ring that same night and even gave props to Cotto saying "he's a pretty good boxer also" meaning he was not only a puncher.

Now on the vacant titles, that's just crap because everybody in boxing knows that in this day and age, titles are not that important no more. Boxers are making great fights in catch weight or non tiltle fights. It's all about who you fight and you can not deny that Cotto has fought damm good fighters and has not refused to fight people like Margarito and Clottey which have been avoided buy lots of the so called "elite fighters" of our generation.

By the way this will be the second time that Cotto tries to face titleholders (Margarito and Clottey) since he's in 147 and both of them got their belt taken away from them before the fight.

Cotto is not to blame for that. Blame the boxing organizations.

[Iceta]

You act like it doesn't matter if Cotto becomes the man in weight divisions, and that's just crap. The only fighter that didn't that won a lot of titles was Tommy Hearns, but at least when he won all his titles they were from an established belt holder, like Duran at 154 for example. This is something to think about if you want Cotto to go down as a great.