Cotto > Erik Morales, Gatti and ODLH

[IMDAZED]

Cotto better than a prime Oscar De La Hoya??? haha funny one man. where you around when oscar fought in his prime? He was unbeatable. So Cotto is better than Tito?? Oscar smoked Titio!!

Based on this post I'd guess YOU were the one who wasn't around when Oscar fought in his prime.

[Cuauhtémoc1520]

I don't know who had better boxing skills between a prime Tito and a prime Cotto. I may have to give the edge to Tito there.

No way, Tito was NOT a great boxer, he had great power there's a difference. DLH was schooling Tito, he would not have had that easy of a time with Cotto.

Cotto is the better polished boxer, with more amatuer experience.

[Luis12]

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I don't know, Tito was a pretty good boxer when he was young but fell in love with his power. In his prime at welter he had an excellent style.

very true. tito fell in love with the Left hook to the body then to the head.

i think cotto is a better boxer but tito have the power

[xcaret]

oscar fought a prime mosley and got robbed, that version of dlh and mosley would kill cotto

[street bully]

oscar fought a prime mosley and got robbed, that version of dlh and mosley would kill cotto

Oscar fought a Mosley coming off of 4 losses, and looked like he won. But Oscar got hsi ass kicked by an undefeated Mosley.

[Pugilistic™]

Skill wise, a prime Morales and De La Hoya were clearly superior to Cotto.

Cotto has more skills than Gatti did but he doesn't have Gatti's toughness and heart.

I'm a big Cotto fan by the way.

[Pugilistic™]

Oscar fought a Mosley coming off of 4 losses, and looked like he won. But Oscar got hsi ass kicked by an undefeated Mosley.

The Wright losses happened after the second DLH fight.

[IMDAZED]

No way, Tito was NOT a great boxer, he had great power there's a difference. DLH was schooling Tito, he would not have had that easy of a time with Cotto.

Cotto is the better polished boxer, with more amatuer experience.

Cotto is pretty polished - that's why I say it was close. But Tito was a very good boxer in his prime, I don't know what you're talking about. To use the De La Hoya bout is silly. Not only was Tito drained in that bout (his last fight at 147) but he still managed to more effectively impose his game plan of stalking Oscar and wearing him down later. Either way, Tito was a pretty good boxer in his prime. That's not a knock on Cotto at all.

[street bully]

The Wright losses happened after the second DLH fight.

Yes. I got the dates mixed up. Either way He fought Oscar after two losses in a row, and a NC.

[nujabes77]

No disrespect to these great fighters, but Cotto is a superior boxer than these three. The Cotto that fought Mosley would kill any of these three, and any WW or JW today (except P.Williams). With that said, it does seem like he is declining a bit, but we won't know to this next fight. I mean with Marg there was the plaster matter (that we do not know about), and with Clottey there was the cut. So I guess we will really see where Cotto stands on Nov 14th.

Just FYI, I am not saying that he blows Erik Morales, Gatti and ODLH out of the water. We all know they have certain areas where they excel over Cotto, but overall Cotto IS better.

this is reaching now...