Why Didn't Cotto get as much credit as Floyd for Fighting Mosley?

[musiol]

people thought it was the passing of the torch to the new generation and moslety was prob on the slide cotto was really good that nite and mosley was good also

[Counter Punch]

According to NSB


Mosley on Cotto's resume = Best win of Cotto's career

Mosley on Mayweather's resume = Mosley was old, past his prime, cherry-picked, so on and so forth........

[catalinul]

Cotto gets plenty of credit for fighting Mosley and putting up a very good performance aswell.

From me anyway.

[Owlzfan84]

Because when Cotto fought Mosley, Mosley wasnt considered the best Welter.....Ever since Mosley beat margarito, his stock sky rocketed because of margaritos win over Cotto.....

just like Margarito didnt get any praise when he fought Cotto...Cotto Looked bad against Ricardo Mayorga a.k.a the human punching bag....

I assume you mean Mosley looked bad against Mayorga. Honestly anyone who fought Mayorga that night would of looked bad. He was doing a lot of holding and hitting. Shane came through with a brutal knockout. Plus 154 isnt exactly Shane's best weight.

[DLT]

I dont see Floyd getting a ton of credit but alot of people thought Shane beat Cotto or came very close, then he stopped Mayorga, and then wrecked a Margarito who killed a prime Cotto. Thats why its elevated in some people's mind

[HARLEM AL]

Cotto got credit for the win(altho I thought it was a draw). And come on fam. You know dam well floyd aint getting no credit for fighting Mosley.

[DE100]

People just making stuff up now, Cotto doesn't get credit for fighting Mosley??? Since when. When the fight is talked about he does.

[PAC-BOY]

now that i think about it...I think Floyds ONLY getting credit for finally fighting a true WW or a guy who is a threat. Cotto is a real fighter who wouldnt get this credit because he fights everyone and has a great resume in the WW division. He gets credit for the win and the fight itself. Its just not unusual to see Cotto fight a game ass guy like SSM. Mayweather on the other hand, well...

[Sugar Jay]

I assume you mean Mosley looked bad against Mayorga. Honestly anyone who fought Mayorga that night would of looked bad. He was doing a lot of holding and hitting. Shane came through with a brutal knockout. Plus 154 isnt exactly Shane's best weight.

Yea ma bad i meant mosley....and yea right come on now, no matter how it went, it took him 12 rounds to beat that bum and it was a difficult for him..and it was close 105-104 107-102 and 1 judge had mayorga winning 104-105....thats pittiful

he didnt seem to have that problem against Fernando Vargas or Oscar De La Hoya.....

[Dynamite Kid]

Like the title says, Why didn't Cotto get as much credit as Mayweather for fighting Mosley? Because if I recall there weren't much credit for Cotto for fighting him but now Floyd is fighting him and everybody is praising him. Don't get me wrong I like the fight and I'm happy Floyd is stepping up his game but it looks like a double standard the credit his getting.

Because Mayweather is so reluctant to fight the best that when he does actually step up its made out to be something special when in actual fact he is just doing what he should of been doing.

Cotto also beat a much better version to.