Pacquiao's Fast Pace Will Wear Cotto Down, Says Roach

[Datu Puti]

No but what I'm sayin is that Manny hasn't done anything that someone else hasn't already done. So why do you guys give him greatness because he is not a great fighter, just a hyped up Top Rank fighter.

yEAH the difference with PACQUIAO is that he started his career at 106lbs and BEAT DOWN bigger guys as he move up in weight ducking none of the top fighters in that division. And when he beat those fighters that other fighters beat. Pacquiao didn't just beat them he destroyed THEM...and put one guy into realizing retirement....and maybe even HATTON is contemplating retirement...thats what separates PACQUIAO from all the other guys that beat DLH and HATTON the way he dominated them...HOPKINS landed a one solid on the point liver shot to DLH...(no one has gotten up from that) MOSLEY BEATS DLH by decision twice...MAYWEATHER BEATS DLH by split decision...TRINIDAD we all know who really won that fight..but CHICKEN DLH was to ****** to run around and gave that fight away. NOW PACQUIAO beat the **** out of him and toyed with him for 8 rds, then made him quit on his stool. I could go on and on, but i prove my point on how ignorant and ****** HOTBOX2 is....thats the bottomline...

[wizard king]

i dont give a damm who beats who in this fight but i keep reading ******s say that pac is gonna be in out and he is going to be all over the place. thats if cotto can catch him and all this other bs. like pac was all over the place when he fougt jmm,morales,mab wake the **** up people, pac got hit alot in these fights. so now all of suddan cotto is not a threat and is going to get destroyed by pac.yall people are some dumb mofos **** boggles the mind.iam telling you cotto even in state of mind will beat pac. plus all thes articles claiming he is shot is just giving cotto that motviation to shut people up. the way i see it i think we see the old cotto with a new state of mind.

[Datu Puti]

i dont give a damm who beats who in this fight but i keep reading ******s say that pac is gonna be in out and he is going to be all over the place. thats if cotto can catch him and all this other bs. like pac was all over the place when he fougt jmm,morales,mab wake the **** up people, pac got hit alot in these fights. so now all of suddan cotto is not a threat and is going to get destroyed by pac.yall people are some dumb mofos **** boggles the mind.iam telling you cotto even in state of mind will beat pac. plus all thes articles claiming he is shot is just giving cotto that motviation to shut people up. the way i see it i think we see the old cotto with a new state of mind.

this i can respect...I would love to see COTTO shut us PACQUAIO fans up..and you know what i will be humble if that defeat happens....but with his new state of mind or whatever the **** you refering to...his state of mind is not gonna help his stamina in the later rounds..LIKE I SAID..COTTO better be in his best shape of his life then he will definetly be a big advantage...I'm not worried how big he is, or how hard he hits with those body shots...his chin AS WE KNOW had been rock before and mark my words...YOU WILL witness once again PACQUIAO's greatness...shutting up the haters and making a believer of all the doubters...

[wizard king]

this i can respect...I would love to see COTTO shut us PACQUAIO fans up..and you know what i will be humble if that defeat happens....but with his new state of mind or whatever the **** you refering to...his state of mind is not gonna help his stamina in the later rounds..LIKE I SAID..COTTO better be in his best shape of his life then he will definetly be a big advantage...I'm not worried how big he is, or how hard he hits with those body shots...his chin AS WE KNOW had been rock before and mark my words...YOU WILL witness once again PACQUIAO's greatness...shutting up the haters and making a believer of all the doubters...

dude pac was rocked by marquez and you think cotto wont rock pac.people are way over the head with pac to point where its just getting ******.iam not a doubter of pac but just not brain washed by the pac hype. their going to be alot of disappointed pac fans come fight day.

[Clint650]

roach isn't always right on his predictions.

[Clint650]

to beat Cotto you would have to pressure and punish him like Margo all nite. hit him with everything, and laugh his punches off. Manny can't afford to get hit. with that, How the hell is he going to defeat a warrior like Cotto if he's going to avoid close exchanges?

[Clint650]

Roach's plan is for Manny to get in and out, and win rounds. He's hoping by the later rounds Cotto will have nothing left and that Manny can finish him off, but i see Pac having some trouble even beginning to bother Cotto in the early rounds. once Manny feels he needs to fight, is when he will leave himself open to a Cotto counter.

[knwledg]

Blueprint

If Roach wants a blueprint all he has to do is watch the Zab Judah fight. All they need is speed and the left uppercut.

If Judah would've stuck to what was working he would've knocked out Cotto but he didnt so he didnt.

Not a fight that im excited about but no doubt i want to watch it.

[Beater_of_ass]

The problem is, Cotto seems to have abandoned his body punching. Check out his fights with Margarito and Clottey. You could almost count the body punches on two hands. I almost went mad waiting for Cotto to go hard to the body in those fights. I see him throwing very little to Manny's body because Manny is just not going to be in range for him to go there with any confidence.

He landed about 50 punches to the body in the Clottey fight according to Compubox. Granted isn't as much as I would have though but he was getting bombarded with right hands seeing as how that eye was near blind. He was landing about a 4 per round average, for Manny I'd like to see that around 10 at least.

[vince_carter123]

maaaaaaan... are you serious?

PUNCH STATS:

TOTAL PUNCHES: Cotto - 179 of 723 (25%); Clottey - 222 of 622 (36%)
POWER PUNCHES: Cotto - 123 of 404 (30%); Clottey - 168 of 413 (41%)
JABS: Cotto - 55 of 319 (17%); Clottey - 54 of 209 (26%)