Has miguel cotto ducked anybody at welterweight???

[David_TheMan]

Cotto blatantly ducked Paul Williams twice.

[King Ju-Ju]

Most welters don't either.

not 4 nuttin but if i was 5'7 i wouldnt either. williams is 2 tall.

[jrosales13]

Cotto blatantly ducked Paul Williams twice.

Can you give me examples of those two times? Who did Cotto fight in order to duck P-Will?

[Ravishing]

I wont argue that Cotto had a good WW resume.

To play devils advocate though he did fight Jennings, Gomez, Clottey and Urkal. They arent big draws at all.

...and I'll agree with you, but just like many fighters in the history of Boxing (Leonard, Hagler, Mayweather, Tyson, etc) Cotto won't be crucified for fighting lesser opponents here and there. Williams was an up and comer who was a huge prospect in the making, but not a star attraction just yet. Williams was still working up the ranks just like Cotto did prior at 140 before making the move to 147. Cotto himself wasn't a star overnight, he just kept fighting until he got his call. I think Williams' team were really impatient and tried to make fights elsewhere as the headliner, but they ultimately found out he's not there just yet. Him fighting and beating Pavlik IMO puts him over the top in today's scenario.

[krispy kreme]

No, he fought all the top fighters. Williams might be the only exception.

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Can you give me examples of those two times? Who did Cotto fight in order to duck P-Will?

http://www.boxingscene.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7951840#post7951840

[Zarco]

A lot of people didn't want to fight him, and neither did fans want to see him that bad basing it off the attendance for his biggest fight to date against Winky Wright. They had to move people down to the front rows so it didn't look as if there was nobody there. When they panned away that's when you REALLY saw it.

Williams has the worst of both worlds, a risky fighter who brings no money. But if the answer you're looking for is "Williams would beat Cotto", then yea you could be right.

No they didnt, I was at that fight and every one was directed towards the seats they bought, we were going to try and sit in the lower level but arena workers were at the entrance of that section. Yes some times that happens for fights but dont say it was for that one because I was there live. They did it for Ward vs Kessler, there were tables all around the arena where we turned in our tickets for closer ones at no charge.

[Enzo Mc is SHIT]

He ran to Junior Middleweight to avoid Matt Hatton.

[Uturn]

Not really. Cotto has pretty much took on all top welters. Arguebly the best resume at WW right now to.

[daggum]

he avoided baldomir, hatton, marquez, and mitchell. all the top welters of this era.