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Now the former champion Miguel Cotto will overwhelm his opponents. Or at least that's what new coach Emanuel Steward expects, who said yesterday that the Puerto Rican fighter has better balance in his legs and is capable of launching up to six to seven shots in the row.
It was that balance in the ring what Cotto found under the tutelage of Steward, in training for his fight this June 5 in New York, before the champion Yuri Foreman.
"My balance was bad before this training camp and is now better than ever," Cotto said during a conference call with reporters yesterday. "It's what we've worked on this training."
Stewart, meanwhile, argued that small adjustments in the style of Cotto have made a huge difference.
"Miguel had his feet wide apart and hands too high. He could not throw more than one stroke at a time, he had no balance, "Steward said in the teleconference. "But I did not major changes, subtleties were mainly to improve his balance, his hand speed and so he can throw combinations."
"I know that Yuri is fast, but Michael is going to surprise us," predicted the famed coach. "It's going to be much faster than people expect."
But Cotto is still a knockout artist, first and foremost.
"Do not get me wrong, we do not come on tiptoe wanting to be Muhammad Ali," said Steward. "But we come to throw combinations of six and seven hits, to dismantle Yuri."
"We can not let Yuri go on front at the beginning of the fight, to be honest," he added, on the strategy to try to Cotto. "We can not fall behind."
And Steward speaks knowingly about Foreman, who admitted yesterday he had agreed to train, before changing sides.
"I had agreed to work with Yuri but never as a head coach, only to adjust a few things to improve his punching power," Stewart said yesterday. "But I thought it would be better to train with Miguel."
The Caguas native apparently forgot his plans to retire at age 30 in November, and spoke about future fights at 154 or 147 pounds.
"I feel comfortable in both weights," said yesterday the former welterweight and junior welterweight champion. "Everything is in what kind of business at 147 we have. Boxing is a business, if the best deals are there, we return to the welterweight division. "
Cotto was expressed star honored with the first lineup of boxing in the new Yankee Stadium.
"It means a lot to me to fight in a legendary stadium, a legendary team that is always in contention," Cotto said yesterday, in which the mark is 34-2 with 27 knockouts. "I'm going to feel like a Yankee that night, like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez."
It was that balance in the ring what Cotto found under the tutelage of Steward, in training for his fight this June 5 in New York, before the champion Yuri Foreman.
"My balance was bad before this training camp and is now better than ever," Cotto said during a conference call with reporters yesterday. "It's what we've worked on this training."
Stewart, meanwhile, argued that small adjustments in the style of Cotto have made a huge difference.
"Miguel had his feet wide apart and hands too high. He could not throw more than one stroke at a time, he had no balance, "Steward said in the teleconference. "But I did not major changes, subtleties were mainly to improve his balance, his hand speed and so he can throw combinations."
"I know that Yuri is fast, but Michael is going to surprise us," predicted the famed coach. "It's going to be much faster than people expect."
But Cotto is still a knockout artist, first and foremost.
"Do not get me wrong, we do not come on tiptoe wanting to be Muhammad Ali," said Steward. "But we come to throw combinations of six and seven hits, to dismantle Yuri."
"We can not let Yuri go on front at the beginning of the fight, to be honest," he added, on the strategy to try to Cotto. "We can not fall behind."
And Steward speaks knowingly about Foreman, who admitted yesterday he had agreed to train, before changing sides.
"I had agreed to work with Yuri but never as a head coach, only to adjust a few things to improve his punching power," Stewart said yesterday. "But I thought it would be better to train with Miguel."
The Caguas native apparently forgot his plans to retire at age 30 in November, and spoke about future fights at 154 or 147 pounds.
"I feel comfortable in both weights," said yesterday the former welterweight and junior welterweight champion. "Everything is in what kind of business at 147 we have. Boxing is a business, if the best deals are there, we return to the welterweight division. "
Cotto was expressed star honored with the first lineup of boxing in the new Yankee Stadium.
"It means a lot to me to fight in a legendary stadium, a legendary team that is always in contention," Cotto said yesterday, in which the mark is 34-2 with 27 knockouts. "I'm going to feel like a Yankee that night, like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez."
Cotto is going to be doing some of this on Foreman
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