is cotto on the decline?

[-Lowkey-]

ok so ive heard alot of guys talking like cotto is now passed his best and starting to decline im a cotto fan i would like to give him the benefit of the doubt due to getting cut early which clearly effected him what do u guys think? honest opinions please...

[goza]

ok so ive heard alot of guys talking like cotto is now passed his best and starting to decline im a cotto fan i would like to give him the benefit of the doubt due to getting cut early which clearly effected him what do u guys think? honest opinions please...

not at all.

[RRICAN]

not yet, he is fighting the best WWs so of course is not gonna be easy

[-PedoBear-]

hard to say.... he knows he's not invincible, but its up to him as to where he goes from here.... i think it will take him a little more time with the new trainer to get used to it, hard to gauge after one fight.... too many variables to pin everything on him "declining" at this point...

[fallenloki]

I don't know if anyone else picked this up, but he was absolutely RIPPED for the Margarito fight last year. After that fight he took a while off and hasn't looked as good technically or physically since the Margarito fight.

I voted yes based off of this.

Maybe Margarito beat the ***** into him with all them weird tats

[Spirit]

I think he's actually getting better. He didnt bring anything new to the Clottey fight due to him not having a real trainer. If thats what people are basing their statements on theyre in for a suprise (if Cotto gets an experienced trainer for his next fight, which I hope he does)

[rape]

ok so ive heard alot of guys talking like cotto is now passed his best and starting to decline im a cotto fan i would like to give him the benefit of the doubt due to getting cut early which clearly effected him what do u guys think? honest opinions please...

i'll tell you why he's not.

since his questionable loss to margarito who has he fought?

michael jennings. it was a confidence booster of a fight and nothing more. he blew the guy out and let him last longer than he needed to. he could have put the guy away early but wanted to give people there moneys worth. he looked like regular old cotto.

against clottey we have the issue of the cut over the eye and he wasn't really able to fight his fight. you didn't get to see how he would perform against serious opposition. they were still in the warm up and feeling out early rounds of the fight so cotto never really got into his rhythm or got a chance to try to learn clottey and build an attack around what he was dealing with. he spent the entire fight trying to preserve his eye and keep it clear of blood while trying to thwart a forever approaching clottey.

so honestly we still have no ability to judge if cotto is still the same dude.

hopefully against pacquiao no cuts occur and it lasts longer than 5 rounds.

then we can determine if cotto is still the man he used to be.

[toysale]

I don't think he's past it, but everyone needs to decide that now before he fights Pacman. If Pacman wins then everyone is gonna say 'he showed signs of being shot in Clottey match etc'. Choose now people!!

[oldgringo]

There is nothing to suggest that his skills are regressing at all. He had a rough time with a top Welterweight last weekend and fought for 9 rounds with a bad cut. Cotto is still more or less at his peak.

[WhoreUs]

he's fine.

clottey is an elite fighter.

having the cut and not being able to see DOES affect how one fights you know.



if pacquiao does beat cotto , i expect nothing less than people saying cotto was weight drained and shot.