In effect he was shot. I was fooled by the 24/7 hype, but after seeing the fight 3 times since Saturday night, its clear Cotto was shot.
He was the easiest pickings at WW, had a belt and was forced to fight at a cw. Which clearly affected him. He looked much stronger against Clottey in the upper body. In this fight he looked skinny.
His punch resistance was gone too. Judah, Tony, Mosley all caught him w/ real hard shots, but in those fights Cotto always fought to the death and didn't lose his courage.
In this fight, he gets clipped in the 4th and he basically stops fighting from then on.
No punch resistance, his heart and belief in himself gone from past fights, and a catchweight that had him cut too much weight and overtrain and you get another Packy win clouded with su****ion.
It is what it is I guess.
Cotto's team shouldve fought harder for better terms,, but I guess they knew their guy was done and just wanted to cash him out.
Sad really.
Say what you want about Floyds team, but they won't put up w/ this stuff. No catch weights, no diamond belts, no weird terms.
And while Floyd may be a jackass as a person, his skills are the truth.
Still not buying the Packy hype. Too many carefully selected opponents, w/ catchweights, and dubious terms.
You might want to crossreference the punchstats for those fights.
The only other fight where Cotto was hit by an average of 50+power shots a round was against Margarito in which he was also knocked out. The difference being Pac brings it every round.....not just from round 6 on out.
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