whose competition was greater???...Cotto or floyd

[trk]

You can make a good case that Cotto has fought better competition the last few years, but career wise Mayweather has a massive advantage in competition faced. Cotto has only fought good competition for about the last 3 years since he moved up to 147, Floyd has been fighting good competition since 1998 when he was at 130.

[KingTito]

Gotta give it to Cotto. He has one of the best resumes in the sport right now.

[ChampBox@PR]

Cottos opposition
Pacquiao
Mosley
Margarito
Clottey
Quintana
Judah
Malignaggi
Torres
abdullaev
Corley
Bailley
N'Dou
Ceballos
Maussa
Bazan


Floyds Opposition
Castillo
Corrales
Hatton
Mosley
Hernandez
De La Hoya
Judah
Marquez
Gatti
Baldomir
Manfredy
Corley
Chavez


Cotto fought the better comp and his oponets where at there best possible

[johncods]

I wanted to make this thread. Yea cotto's resume is greater than floyd's the last couple of years cotto has fought nothing but the top fighters at WW.

[TOBYLEE1]

while i find this entire thread to be very ****ing suspect, you are saying floyd would get beat by margarito or pacquiao, and also lose to branco, foreman, mosley, quintana, jennings, clottey, gomez etc?

If you think floyd would lose to margarito that is your opinon, or pac...thats your opinion, but him and floyd have alot of common opponents, its not exactly light years ahead in competition. also i think basically it seems to be ok to just completely ignore floyd body of work and overall dominance he had at the lower weights. Cottos resume at welterweight is better than floyds, but cottos overall body of work and especially his accomplishments, basically aside from cottos two losses, shouldnt cotto be ranked ahead of floyd in all time discussions if his resume conesnsus is so "SUPERIOR"

this is a very bizarre discussion

You read my post wrong, I meant that each other would have positive outcomes if facing each other opponents. I exclude Pac ODLH

[Frank Ducketts]

what was wrong with those four, all of them were undefeated until Cotto fought them.

Look at those fighters now...

[Frank Ducketts]

Margarito and Pac have a very high chance of giving Floyd an L, so no, if Floyd fought everyone in Cotto's resume he might just have his same record. If Cotto fought everyone in Floyd's.... he might have Floyd's.

All of those guys have been knocked out, and they are all inferior in skill to Floyd, and Dlh would beat the ****e out of Cotto and Margarito at 154...

[Frank Ducketts]

You can make a good case that Cotto has fought better competition the last few years, but career wise Mayweather has a massive advantage in competition faced. Cotto has only fought good competition for about the last 3 years since he moved up to 147, Floyd has been fighting good competition since 1998 when he was at 130.

Thank you lol... I thought I was in the Twilight Zone... I won't ever say a fighter like Cotto does anything better than Floyd because Cotto does nothing better than Floyd...not even fight better comp.

[trk]

Cottos opposition

Pacquiao
Mosley
Margarito
Clottey
Quintana
Judah
Malignaggi
Torres
abdullaev
Corley
Bailley
N'Dou
Ceballos
Maussa
Bazan


Floyds Opposition

Castillo
Corrales
Hatton
Mosley
Hernandez
De La Hoya
Judah
Marquez
Gatti
Baldomir
Manfredy
Corley
Chavez


Fighters underlined were ranked #1 in their division (not including Floyd/Cotto) by The Ring at the time they fought Floyd/Cotto. Fighters in bold were ranked as in the top 3 of their division at the time they fought Floyd/Cotto. Fighters in italics were ranked 4th-6th at the time they fought Floyd/Cotto. Names written normally are fighters who were not in the top 6 at the time.

[Frank Ducketts]

Floyd's tough comp:

Mosley
Marquez
Hatton
Dlh
Baldomir
Judah
Gatti
Corley
Castillo*2
Chavez
Hernandez
Corrales
Burton
Vargas
Rios
Hernandez