Just **** training, bad habits and no stamina? Yes.
Pac beating him had nothing to do with the weight. He would have lost at 147 too. Cotto doesn't know what to do when someone can take his punches well and hurt him back. He hardly went to Pac's body when Pac was against the ropes, letting him punch too, which was foolish because he could have got a lot of work done at those times but stood back not doing anything probably trying to conserve energy because he knows he gasses so bad.
I think that shows the difference between the old Cotto, pre Marg, and the new Cotto, post Marg. He doesn't have that same brutality. He tries to box more but does a terrible job of it and ends up getting himself trapped in bad positions and ends up getting hit more than he would if he went forward. Terrible defense too and just tires himself out more by moving away so much without needing to.
If Clottey had tried to go non stop for the KO in their fight and had better stamina you would have seen the same thing happen in that fight to Cotto as it did against Marg and Pac.
Yeah, I agree. Cotto fought the wrong fight plan. Big mistake, because all things considered, it was a winnable fight for him had he done it with a different approach.
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