Comments Thread For: Miguel Cotto's Bad Habits are Being Broken By Steward

[Brassangel]

I honestly feel like Cotto has been one of the worst trained fighters i have ever seen. If he aws properly trained he would be even sicker

This is a bit of a simplistic view of what actually happens, but you are partially right. He's too fine a boxer to suffer the in-ring tactical flaws we saw against Margarito and Pacquiao. Against Clottey he suffered a headbutt that basically slowed him down. Against Margo and Pac, he was doing very well to start the fight, but when they [his opponents] made adjustments, he didn't respond well. He just started running.

The Cotto from the Pinto and Mosley fights huh? Against Mosley, Shane landed over 60% of his power punches despite the fact he didn't get the decision in that fight. And Pinto who?

Cotto simply outclassed Mosley. Most of Mosley's power punches didn't come until the last 3-4 rounds. Cotto easily won round 11, and round 12 was a draw (as neither fighter did much).

[-Antonio-]

I agree 100%. There's no reason why a proffessional boxer should not know how to defend themselves. I could understand if his style made it hard to defend himself, or left his face wide open, but that's not even the case. He actually tries to defend, but he looks hopeless. It looks like Joshua Clottey is fighting with his eyes closed. Somebody ruined the guy's talent.

You guys act like Cotto is a club fighter. His past trainers weren't bad, just limited. He needed somebody years ago, probably when he moved to WW, that could improve his inside fighting. Because he lacks head movement and never clinches. It's what lost him the Margarito fight.

[Iceta Lives]

Steward is someone I actually question as a trainer. Granted, he has better experience than Cotto's other trainers. But just look at the Cintron-Margarito rematch and you will see he didn't give Cintron any good advice in that fight. He didn't tell Cintron to land some body punches like ****m Richardson told Mosley to do against Margarito. And I don't even know if Cintron could've beaten Angulo with Steward in his corner.

[TheSurgeonMDMPH]

Face 1st brawler who only boxes when he gases or gets hurt.

Steward will do just as good as he did with JT.

[Iceta Lives]

Face 1st brawler who only boxes when he gases or gets hurt.

Steward will do just as good as he did with JT.

This pretty much sums Cotto up.

[-Antonio-]

Steward is someone I actually question as a trainer. Granted, he has better experience than Cotto's other trainers. But just look at the Cintron-Margarito rematch and you will see he didn't give Cintron any good advice in that fight. He didn't tell Cintron to land some body punches like ****m Richardson told Mosley to do against Margarito. And I don't even know if Cintron could've beaten Angulo with Steward in his corner.

I agree. Add Taylor to the list too. For what ever reason those guys responded better to other trainers.

That said Steward mentions the gap in Cotto's defense so much that you have to think he's working hard on trying to fix it.

[-Antonio-]

Face 1st brawler who only boxes when he gases or gets hurt.

Steward will do just as good as he did with JT.

Taylor and Cintron are more athletes than true boxers anyway. Cotto has a boxer's mind.

[boxingfan76]

cotto is shot, margarito ruined him , then clottey and pac man finished him off, cottos defense does suck , but like pacs is a defensive genious??? i think not. clottey barely hit him and lost every round, and pac still looked all busted up.i dont see him faring well against mosley/mayweather.

[HandSpeed303]

Steward always breaks down his fighters, and biulds them back up to what he wants them to be...It does not always work for him.

The only difference I expect to see out of Cotto, are the same changes I see out of every Steward trained fighter. Stay on the outside, jab, staight right hand..

Cotto had that already...He will just stay on the outside alot more under Stewards teaching.

Not a bad thing, but like I said before, it doesn't always work for fighters that have been figting a certain style for a long time.

[Iceta Lives]

Steward never tells any of his fighters to go to the body. His mindset is on having all his fighters fight like Hearns, Lewis, and Klitchko. And that doesn't work against pressure fighters. The reason those other guys can do that is because of their power. I'm not saying they aren't skilled because they are. But it's just that when you fight in lower weight classes body punching is something that you need to be skilled at and if Steward trains Cotto to fight like those guys I mentioned above, his body work will probably be non-existant. Margarito, Clottey, Mosley, and Pac all shut down his body punchig game, so I don't know if that matters that much or not. But Steward needs to get Cotto to go back to his body punching.