Felix Trinidad: "Cotto Should Retire in Two or Three More"

[Eric_Teaman]

Dont tell me PACMAN retired another fighter? Cotto should really take a long vacation and enjoy his family, maybe retiring is not bad after all. He made all his money and a good legacy.

[Young Herschel]

I think you may be right El Cabron. Cotto's scar tissue is not going to get any better with more fights it will only become more of a liability. His corner told him to pressure Pac-man in the eraly rounds (1-3). This was a mistake. I would have emphasized boxing and defense early on while he still had a full tank of gas. One can always stand flat-footed and **** it out Gatti-style later on.

His corner failed to properly prepare him for Pac-man's agility and explosive striking ability . . . his Tampa,FL training camp consisted of the same two guys he had used for previous fights according to HBO 24/7. Someone explain to me how Team Cotto could rely on "Slow Joe from Boise, Idaho" and "No-Name James from Ames-Iowa" to get Cotto ready for Pac-man; an opponent with proven ring experience and an explosive offense in what was obviously his last shot at superstardom?

[daju99]

Most of you are a bunch of cowards! Typical fans! Once your fighter loses you say he's done and should retire. Then you change fighter just like football when they have bad seasons you criticize and then change teams. I will always be a Cotto fan no matter what cuz he ducked no one ever unlike mayweather & others!

[benjamin2004]

Cotto needs to go back to what brough him to stardom, the basics. He has totally forgotten about the body work, he started off with the jab and had everyone including Roach concerned about the outcome of the fight, then he stopped using it as he was, only used randomly and still it was effective. He needs to get rid of Santiago, I'm rican, but Santiago just dont cut it at this level and his so called "conditioning expert" has to go too, he has regressed Cotto's stamina instead of pregress it, I remember when Cotto started his career he would fight rounds 10-12 even harder than when he started the fight, but since Landman took over he has diminished. IMO he should hire Tito's conditioning coach, he's only known in PR, but dude can get the job done cardio wise, Tito used to recover in 30 secs, and that's because his conditioning coach focused on that cardio, Landman is more of a weight lifting kind of guy. Definitely he needs a world class trainer that is for sure, he needs to stop crying over money if he wants to get back to the top; otherwise I'll be the first one to admit he needs to hang them up and I've been a fan since amateur. Another thing is his face is swelling way to quick, which indicates that time is closing in on him, so either he changes his defense, surgeon, or call it a day, cause if not he'll finish disfigure. Overall he still got a litle going on, but substantial changes have to be made ASAP, if not he'll lose again in an even bloddier fight with more damage. He needs to take a break, get some confidence builder fights, go back to his body work and jab, improve his D, and give it one more try, if not successful, then that shold be it, IMHO.

[malia_andrew]

Most of you are a bunch of cowards! Typical fans! Once your fighter loses you say he's done and should retire. Then you change fighter just like football when they have bad seasons you criticize and then change teams. I will always be a Cotto fan no matter what cuz he ducked no one ever unlike mayweather & others!

I did not read what others were saying on here but I am a Boxing fan who thinks that Cotto should retire. I agree that Yes he has ducked no one unlike Gayweather but he seems to always come up short against the top guys much like Fernando Vargas, and look what happened to Vargas. I hope Cotto quits now and doesn't go down that same road.

[kidynamite]

Glad Cotto got his ass kicked

I am glad that Cotto got his ass kicked. Many people doubted Manny from Day 1 and made some very bold and disrespectful statements against Manny. Manny took the best shots Cotto had to offer and Manny took it well w/o falling. Cotto was the one who couldn't take Manny's shots. So many critics kept saying Cotto is too big & too strong for Manny or "there's no way Cotto can lose this fight" or "Manny can't beat a true welterweight at his prime" Well, all you Cotto supporters are all wrong. It was great to see all these loud-mouth Puerto Rican fans at the MGM sitting back saying nothing w/a ****** look on their face. I mean what can they say? Nothing. Instead they went into hiding. Like I said, I'm glad Cotto got his ass kicked. This is what needed to happen to shut the big mouths of those people who doubted Manny in the 1st place.