My thoughts on Chop and Cotto

[moochi]

i can't wait to see cotto fight the least recognized of the proper super lighwight champs...being vivian harris......i know cotto would chicken out of facing the big 3...

so it would be great to see him fight harris......i am sure that harris would knock the f... out of cotto..to such an extent that cotto would have to re-do his ****** eyebrows.

[Slipx]

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it'd be different if cotto was more of a boxer, but he's an aggressive bull. an aggressive bull should have a strong chin.

That's how lennox got away with it, he stood back and strategically boxed his opponents, cotto comes in like a bull chinless,he'll get punked very soon

[MetalVomit]

Really? He didnt knock him out he didnt even punch him....If you saw it you know it was bogus. Corley took a knee and dodged Cottos punches...

Yeah, ive never seen a fighter take a knee when not getting hit. Is that legal?

[WillieW]

Yeah, ive never seen a fighter take a knee when not getting hit. Is that legal?

Maybe it was a delayed effect. I'm guessing here because I haven't seen the fight yet. He was hit with a body shot the first knock down and got up...from what I have read...and he took another knee shortly after, body shots are notorious for having a delayed effect. Just a thought.

[MetalVomit]

Yeah, ive never seen a fighter take a knee when not getting hit. Is that legal?

It didnt look like a delayed reaction he stepped back and dodged cotto's punches, and as he dodged the third, he took a knee. Can someone clear this up for me? Is taking a knee when you have not been hit and are dodging punches legal?

[m00ks]

It's legal but it will count as a knock down. Fighters do it to avoid unnecessary punishment specially when the rounds about to close.

[Mech.]

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it'd be different if cotto was more of a boxer, but he's an aggressive bull. an aggressive bull should have a strong chin.

That's how lennox got away with it, he stood back and strategically boxed his opponents, cotto comes in like a bull chinless,he'll get punked very soon

Nah,cotto fought a ****** fight,very ******,of all the cotto fights i seen,i never seen him fight like that,ever,i knew it was trouble right when i saw him rushing the dude,cause he kept getting caught cleanly,even with a dude that dosent have great power,you keep getting caught and your gonna get hurt eventually,cotto took way too many of those shots,he didnt smarten up until that last round,but it was a ****** ref,cotto has a blemish on his record for being ****** and getting rocked,and because of a controversial stoppage in which he could have,imo,finished off corley.

[The Fix]

the fight was dissapointing. cotto was lucky he was in his home town because the stoppage was terrible as was the first knockdown. the first knockdown was corley reacting from a low shot and then when corley was on the ground the ref allowed cotto to get in some shots while corley was on the ground. roy jones was dq'd for less than that.than when the fight was stopped it was just corley takin a knee. i have never seen a fight stopped from a guy taking a knee. the guy just wanted to avoid getting hurt, corley had a good chance of winning that fight. he had cotto hurt badly in the third and could have hurt him again if he were given the chance.

[QueenCity]

Cotto seems like to totally diffrent fighter when he is in Puerto Rico, he thinks he has to knock everybody out inside of four or five rounds. He deserved to loose last night and was very lucky to walk away with a win. Myself I under sold Chop Chop, I didn't think he would be able to land anything hard without being knocked into the fifth row, however he was enough of a pro to make Cotto look bad at times (and almost knock him out) when Cotto was leaving himself wide open. I hope Corley gets a well deserved rematch, but like you guys say he more than likely won't.

I was one of those guys who picked Cotto over Mayweather, it looks like a bad pick now but every figher takes his lumps. I'll just chalk this one up to Cotto being lead on by the big crowd and being tot a lesson by a crafty southpaw.

[HayeFan]

Yes, it's worrying that Cotto got rocked.

Yes, it was a bad call, ending the fight.

Yes, Cotto 'could have' lost had Corley been able to capitalise.

But to insinuate that he's now fodder for the likes of Harris and Gatti is taking it too far.

I mean, wow! Cotto's human after all.