i think cotto wins
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NO EXCUSES
I'm going for a Cotto TKO after round 8. I personally don't see the weight as a factor, I think 145 is fair and Pac will have just come up against someone who is too big, powerful and skillful this time around. No shame in that for a former Flyweight World Champ.Comment
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Dont want to hear about Cotto being weight drained...he weighed 146 Clottey..1 pound wont kill him.
And I dont want to hear about Pac being too small.....He could have always fought Bradley or another 140 pounder...HE chose Cotto..He wants the WW title on the line...wel you need to beat an ACTUAL WW to get it.
NO EXECUSES.
Any bitching about size is daft. The fact is Pac is actually a very big guy. The more I see him at these weights the more I realise that he is winning because he is not smaller than the guys he is fighting. Hatton thought he was bigger and stronger and he wasn't. They were the same size and Pac was quicker, as strong, and much more skilled. Cotto will come in with a weight advantage, but he really won't be that much bigger at all, so that is absolutely no excuse for losing. Pac has shown that he is basically a natural 140 pound guy and has been for a long time.
As Nazeem said, when he met Pac he simply could not figure out how the guy ever made it down to 130, 135 and all the weight under that because he is bigger than most of the guys fighting at 135, and 140 now. The guy is just a freak. The fact he was ever able to make those smaller weights is weird, but man, at some of those smaller weights he must have seemed like Paul Williams!
A genuine 140 pounder (because he is still solid muscle with no fat and as big as all the other 140 pounders now only in his late twenties and thirties) that was able to whittle himself down and make 112 or wherever he first won a title is crazy! He's a genetic freak. When you think of the other big weight jumpers they were often towered over by eeryone they fought in the latter weights and also fat as all **** and pretty ****eful when fighting these bigger guys. At these supposedly big weights for Pac he is the same size, and probably more solid and stronger as well as being quicker and just as powerful. The size will not be any problem whatsoever in fact. It won't be any different than the 140 guys that Cotto fought before. All of those guys, like Malignaggi, Torres, Branco, Corley, Abdullaev are all around 5'6 - 5'7 and Pac is the same size at 5'6 1/2 with a pretty good reach too at 67 or 68". Cotto is 5'7 with a 67" reach. Literally, the only difference in size will be Cotto's weight. As Pac has been sitting at this weight for much longer now, he will probably come in at a solid 145 and get up to around the 151-153 mark afterward and Cotto coming in at 145 will probably only get up to about the 153-155 mark. There won't be any difference and if Cotto thinks that his size will win him the fight, he seriously has another thing coming. That will be a huge mistake on his, and his team's part, if they think that.
So, in conclusion, Cotto and any weight drain issues are non-existent as he has fought at 140 before, and is very comfortable at 147 and has no problem making weight, and in his most recent fight made 146, only one pound off the catch-weight limit. Pac, and the size issue is also a moot point as he is a lot bigger than everyone thinks, which is one of the huge reasons opponents underestimate him. They think they are coming in to fight a little midget only to realise he is just as big, if not bigger, and not only stronger but probably faster and more powerful too. Pac is quite literally the same size as the large majority of Cotto's opponents, apart from guys like Margarito, Mosley and Clottey. The rest are all the same size as Pac.
No excuses at all. The better guy on the night wins. My pick? Pac UD in a great fight.Last edited by BennyST; 07-08-2009, 08:10 AM.Comment
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