Cotto is a very beatable boxer, but you need the right tool to do it: height, reach, and power. After you have these tools you need to apply them and be a damn good pressure/swarmer fighter, i.e Margarito style fighter. Clottey had these, but he's not a pressure fighter so he lost. His crybaby antics cost him some favor as well.
Only Margarito and Pwill have these tools or a combination of these.
Pac will trade and Cotto will plod forward. He will get tagged, but do you think Pac brings more power in his shots than a 170 lb Clottey, or a Mosley that TKO'd Margarito? Or Margarito himself?
Pac's ducking haymaker with his eyes closed won't work on Cotto. I want this fight made, not because I don't feel Cotto can loose, because he can, but because Pac is being made out into some type of juggernaught and his fans will be in for a real surprise once he fights a game fighter like Mosley, Cotto, or even Mayweather.
Well, as for your first point (in bold): according to sparring partners, Pacquiao hits harder than Margarito.
WTF is this "ducking haymaker with his eyes closed" ****? You're talking about the hook & slip that Pacquiao hurt Hatton and Marquez with? Roach and Manny worked hard on that, yet by describing it as you did above you are downgrading a beautifully executed skill that has proved effective multiple times.
Well, as for your first pointed (in bold): according to sparring partners, Pacquiao hits harder than Margarito.
WTF is this "ducking haymaker with his eyes closed" ****? You're talking about the hook & slip that Pacquiao hurt Hatton and Marquez with? Roach and Manny worked hard on that, yet by describing it as you did above you are downgrading a beautifully executed skill that has proved effective multiple times.
I still see it as a haymaker. He closes his eyes, he ducks way too close to the opponents belt line in my opinion. It's a damn powerful punch, but to call it skilled... I don't know, seems more like a hail mary shot to me.
Pacquaio harder than Margarito? I don't buy it. Not everything that is said is true, sometimes it's just to hype things, like a fighter for instance.
dude get over it
pac is too small for everyfight he fought but still ends up the winner!!
never go against the man who beats the man!!!! get that to your thick skull
I still see it as a haymaker. He closes his eyes, he ducks way too close to the opponents belt line in my opinion. It's a damn powerful punch, but to call it skilled... I don't know, seems more like a hail mary shot to me.
Pacquaio harder than Margarito? I don't buy it. Not everything that is said is true, sometimes it's just to hype things, like a fighter for instance.
All of Valero's sparring partners said he hits much harder than Margarito. These are world champion boxers who are saying this.
Pac might hit harder than Margarito, because Valero hits MUCH harder.
cotto smashes pac man. clottey smashes pac man. mayweather beats pac. pac is an easier fight than mosley or clottey. cant wait till cotto kos pac and all you haters say pac was too small.
Pacquiao would stop him late when Cotto is gased and the fight starts to look oddly like Margarito-Cotto. Just like Clottey-Cotto started to look like after the 7th.
Pacquiao stops him late anywhere between the 10th-12th.
I still see it as a haymaker. He closes his eyes, he ducks way too close to the opponents belt line in my opinion. It's a damn powerful punch, but to call it skilled... I don't know, seems more like a hail mary shot to me.
Pacquaio harder than Margarito? I don't buy it. Not everything that is said is true, sometimes it's just to hype things, like a fighter for instance.
"I agree, Manny's power hurt more. Manny's not the most technically sound fighter but he's more so than Margarito. When you have a snapping punch coming at you, a punch that you don't see with some speed on it, that's an explosive kind of power that hurts you. That's the kind of power that startles you and can put you down.
When you have a heavy-handed individual, which is what I consider Margarito, his punches aren't the type that hurt you with one shot but an accumulation of them can put you down." ~ Rashad Holloway
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