Cottos body shots are overrated.....

[-Antonio-]

Interesting thread topic, although I disagree. Would have read your whole post if you were able to make a better point.

Mosely's number one concern was Miguel's body attack. It's why he kept his right hand tucked and traded body punches himself. The fact that Cotto was able to win (not arguably lose I struggle finding anyone who had Mosley the victor) without being able to use his best weapon is why so many people were impressed with his performance. By the way he won half of the rounds he "ran" in.

I do think that his punches to the head are overrated. I don't see Cotto as a big puncher upstairs at all. He's just a good, thudding, consistant puncher, that can wear people down. It's why he usually messes his opponent's face up. Because he doesn't hit hard enough to remove you from your conciousness, but he hits hard enough to batter you physically.

[ELPacman]

Cotto is a BRUTAL body puncher. Hard to listen to anyone saying his body punching is overrated. That alone merits zero respect for the statement. The 2 fights you mentioned that he didn't do much body work on or didn't have as much effect on are tough hombres. Have you seen Margarito go down recently prior to Mosley? Have you seen Mosly go down? 2 of the toughest hombres. The last thing they'll do is go down by bodyshots. To Margarito's credit, the way he fought Cotto, Cotto never really was in position to land his body punches or was afraid to go downstairs so he never got it going. Against Mosley, well Mosley isn't human. We know that now after January.

[-Antonio-]

Well it is true that he could not hurt Mosley and Margarito to the body and those are probably the best fighters he has fought.

He did beat Quintana with body punching, he broke down Zab with body punching then KO'ed him to the head if i recall. He broke down Torres with body punching first then the head, and I think he got the better of Malignaggi because of his body punching.


But let's not compare those names to Mosley and Margarito.

I think Cotto will have to box, because TS is right, he won't hurt Clottey in the body. If he tries to get inside, it's over for him because Clottey is too dangerous in the inside just ask Tony, a dangerous inside fighter himself that had no answer against Clottey's inside fighting. Margarito beat Clottey with workrate(1700 punches thrown), Cotto's most thrown punches in a 12 round fight was 600 something if I remember. That's not enough to beat Clottey.

You're right. Cotto's best chance is to keep the fight at a distance and use his jab. Clottey's at his best when his gets inside and trades punches with him. Cotto will find this out early because I'm sure Clottey's rib cage will be too hard to pass up.

That said, he'll still make an impact with body punching, whether he gets countered or not because you have to score points, and it's hard to when Clottey is able to guard his whole face. He'll just have to be conservative.

[King Jaffe Joffer]

No need to be butthurt Cotto huggers.. What I said were facts.. The 2 A fighters he fought.. He didnt hurt AT ALL...

THOSE ARE FACTS.. THEREFORE THE THREAD TITLE IS LEGIT...if you read the thread.. The 2 fighters he fought werent hurt to the body nor the head..

[BoxingChaos]

No need to be butthurt Cotto huggers.. What I said were facts.. The 2 A fighters he fought.. He didnt hurt AT ALL...

THOSE ARE FACTS.. THEREFORE THE THREAD TITLE IS LEGIT...if you read the thread.. The 2 fighters he fought werent hurt to the body nor the head..

But you are trying to take away from Cotto but you are not giving Mosley or Tony any credit of their own toughness. I could see if you were talking about other fighters such as Gomez or Jennings lol who both were crushed because they are not made of steel like Mosley or Tony are. Every fighter has his little something. The great Mike Tyson did not knock everyone out but you would be dumb enough to say that Mike Tyson's power was over rated because he was unable to knock out every Tom **** and harry out? No, so shut up please because you sound IGNORANT son.

[TheGreatA]

[Deja_Vous]

dam u are a str8ght hater and obviously by your ridiculous posts you dont no **** about boxing

You're a hater too,dude.

You can dish it out but you can't take it...just like lil Cotton.

[Deja_Vous]

I actually remember Mosley being a bit cautious about Cotto's power.

Shane wasn't the one running in the championship rounds.

[madhive]

I don't think Clotteys worried about body shots from Cotto because he let Margarito set a box office record for punches landed on him. Plus margarito is known for his body punching and he never had clottey hurt. Isn't clotteys defense called a high gaurd and not a peak a boo like tyson?

[Nacho_Analstain]

I agree.

Also Alis jab was fucking awful, Tyson had no power, Bruce Lee was out of shape and Sugar Ray Robinson was an absolutely terrible boxer.