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cotto's lateral movement actually started to bother manny pacquiao a bit. pacquiao likes to circle right when he punches, especially when punching in combination.
this is of note because it's natural for a southpaw to do such, it helps him keep his opponent "turning", it takes him out of range of their right hand which keeps him in position to punch without fear of that heavy counter-shot and it lets his opponent help him out by remaining flat-footed while taking, slipping or blocking pacquiao's punches.
david diaz couldn't keep up with pacquiao's speed at all so he remained flat-footed as pacquiao destroyed him. manny pacquiao kept de la hoya turning the whole fight. hatton's style of attack was straight line which played into manny's hands perfectly as manny circled and allowed hatton to run into straight left and right hook counters. cotto started to stand-still after he took a couple hard punches which really spelled the beginning of the end until he started moving and stretched things out. clottey's whole style of fighting allowed manny to circle him and i expect margarito to be guilty of the same thing. take a couple punches to get inside and find that pacquiao has turned him by the time he opens up to attack.
the clottey fight made something really apparent for anyone that was looking for patterns when fighting pacquiao and that is when clottey did not allow pacquiao to have his foot outside clottey's own, pacquiao would reset and approach again to try and get dominate foot position. this could be just due to the gameplan for the clottey fight or it could be that pacquiao is depending on that positioning to get his heavier combinations off against true welterweights.
cotto was capable of cutting that angle off with his speed and margarito will be capable of doing the same if he keeps a high guard and does not give up his height advantage until he is where he wants to punch from.
this is of note because it's natural for a southpaw to do such, it helps him keep his opponent "turning", it takes him out of range of their right hand which keeps him in position to punch without fear of that heavy counter-shot and it lets his opponent help him out by remaining flat-footed while taking, slipping or blocking pacquiao's punches.
david diaz couldn't keep up with pacquiao's speed at all so he remained flat-footed as pacquiao destroyed him. manny pacquiao kept de la hoya turning the whole fight. hatton's style of attack was straight line which played into manny's hands perfectly as manny circled and allowed hatton to run into straight left and right hook counters. cotto started to stand-still after he took a couple hard punches which really spelled the beginning of the end until he started moving and stretched things out. clottey's whole style of fighting allowed manny to circle him and i expect margarito to be guilty of the same thing. take a couple punches to get inside and find that pacquiao has turned him by the time he opens up to attack.
the clottey fight made something really apparent for anyone that was looking for patterns when fighting pacquiao and that is when clottey did not allow pacquiao to have his foot outside clottey's own, pacquiao would reset and approach again to try and get dominate foot position. this could be just due to the gameplan for the clottey fight or it could be that pacquiao is depending on that positioning to get his heavier combinations off against true welterweights.
cotto was capable of cutting that angle off with his speed and margarito will be capable of doing the same if he keeps a high guard and does not give up his height advantage until he is where he wants to punch from.
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