How is Pacquiao going to survive this?

[jazluvr]

In case you're memory is bad, this is Cotto's last 4 fights...beat Alfonso Gomez, got on his knees for plaster Margarito, almost killed Michael Jennings, beat Joshua Clottey with one eye and a 1st round kd.

The Cotto of today doesn't hold a candle to the mid-2008 Miguel Cotto, he's now battle hardened. JMM on the other hand, is at the pinnacle of his career. And Floyd is conceding weight.

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[JM1]

Above 140, cotto has only ever struggled against huge WW. If cotto can't KO pac, he needs to consider a different line of work.

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[jazluvr]

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I know...lol rinse, wash, repeat. Good one JM!

[Chewybo0]

If Pacman fought like the way he fought Ricky, he will get KTFO, but if will employ the same tactic he used against Diaz and Oscar, he has a good chance.

Either way, Nov. 14 will be a good night for boxing fans...

i agree 1o0% great points and this is a fight i wish they would just stop gossiping about and let it play out as it is .

I think it will be the toughest fight of his career. This fight could go either way, though, since they both have their advantages over each other.

true . it can go either way , i guess it's going to come down to the training and how much they pay mind to how eachother is coming in that day .

[popeyes]

employ the de la hoya tactic - throw bruising combinations then move away etc, bruising and closing cotto's eye like he did to de la hoya would help too, box smart in the early rounds since thats when cotto is most dangerous, cotto gassing would make the odds of pacquiao increase so the longer the fight goes on the more it goes to pacquiao's favour

[Pharcyde]

Fixed for you! No need to thank me, it was my pleasure.

To be fair, it's somewhere in the middle.

[rommel357]

If Manny goes toe-to-toe with Cotto like that, he'll get KTFO. But i think Manny is smart enough not to do that and it's not his style to go inside like that in the first place. He'll keep his distant and rely on his speed to go in and out.

[jazluvr]

To be fair, it's somewhere in the middle.

I was just havin' fun...thanks for bein' a good sport, and i respect your opinion.

[ericsantos]

This fight cant be called down the middle yet,1st Pacman has Never faced a 147 top welter and 2nd Cotto has never faced anyone with the speed or the style or pacman so the way i see it it should be a great fight and either Miguels size and power turn out to be too much for pacman or pacmans speed and style turns out to be hard for cotto to figure out,Either way it goes I say it gets Fight of the year if not the decade! I'm just saying!!!!!!

[jazluvr]

This fight cant be called down the middle yet,1st Pacman has Never faced a 147 top welter and 2nd Cotto has never faced anyone with the speed or the style or pacman so the way i see it it should be a great fight and either Miguels size and power turn out to be too much for pacman or pacmans speed and style turns out to be hard for cotto to figure out,Either way it goes I say it gets Fight of the year if not the decade! I'm just saying!!!!!!

Exactly how i see it. They both have what it takes to win. And they both have weathered their own perspective adversities. However i very slightly give Cotto the edge, (my opinion, not a prediction or "fact"...lol.).