Is Joshua Clottey a harder puncher than Shane Mosley?

[BennyST]

Clottey doesn't have one punch KO power. Mosley is a bigger puncher quite easily. That's not really the issue though. It's all about the styles as they say. Cotto punches harder than Clottey too, but there is no way that Cotto will ever KO or stop Clottey.

[Ravishing]

well..
cotto has few ko and only most his KO record is TKO,like a clottey.

What are you talking about? A TKO is a TKO and winning a cuts against Zab doesn't constitute as a legit KO in the sense of the fighter physically not being able to continue.

Cotto has TKO'd 3 of his last 6 fights (including Zab)

[goza]

What are you talking about? A TKO is a TKO and winning a cuts against Zab doesn't constitute as a legit KO in the sense of the fighter physically not being able to continue.

Cotto has TKO'd 3 of his last 6 fights (including Zab)

I mean, cotto isn't a One punch Ko artist too.

[mathed]

Mosley hits harder because he throws his whole body into the punches. Clottey has short punches better suited for in-fighting.

[oldgringo]

Mosley is a bigger puncher for sure. Clottey is a good hitter but I wonder how much of it is cosmetic. His punches are pretty quick and precise and they look nice to the eye, but he hasn't scored a notable knockout in forever. His last two versus fights were somewhat disappointing (Flores, Alvarez) because, even though he largely, dominated he didn't get rid of smaller, vulnerable opponents. Clottey likes to let his opponent hang around for whatever reason.

[The Scientist]

No, Joshua is not a harder puncher than Shane.

[Pugilistic™]

Mosley clearly hits harder than Clottey.

[MELLY-MEL...]

ssm 4 sure. that said, clottey can ko cotto.

[krispy kreme]

He stood his ground but after 6 rounds he basically quit. His hands where not found to be broken, he later admitted that he bend his thumb nail back. Seriously Thumb nail WTF?? People question wether Cotto has heart because he went 11 rounds with Margarito (a focused and motivated Maragrito) but they fail to mention that although Clottey was doing well the first six rounds he wanted to quit around the seventh. Watch the fight he had no intention of fighting after that and even his corner asked him if he wanted to go on. Which he kept replying my hand is paining me. Watched the fight last night and believe me he quit. Cotto won more rounds then Clottey and put up the better effort so lay off of the Cotto quit **** and for you Mexicans that say a true warrior would never quit like Mexicans I got two names for you Morales and Vazquez.

People say it was a bruised knuckle, it seems to be a different story with every post. You keep saying he wanted to quit, but for the later rounds he was still there landing punches, although he didn't throw anywhere near as many as Margarito. If he quit, explain to me why he finished the fight?

[tis4u2envy]

His corner did not allow him to quit. Simple as that he had no interest after the sixth round when he saw Margarito still coming foward sort of what Cotto did. I'm not saying he did quit I said he wanted to quit. Cotto up until the 11th round caved in, it is as simple as that. To me people say Cotto got demolished by Margarito but look at Compubox Cotto landed over 288 punches about twice as much as Clottey did against Margarito just let look at Maragrito's face after that fight he could not see out of either eye almost. He kinda overlooked Clottey and didn't take him as serious he was the favorite to win not like against Cotto. The hunger he had against Cotto was totally different and can't be overlooked.