If Cotto is shot... then what is Mosley?

[ThePrince]

I just find it strange that after Pacquiao ran through Cotto, the haters tried to take away from this victory by saying that Cotto was done, shot, past his prime, etc... at age 28-29, being active.

Then they try to legitimize Floyd beating a 38 year old Mosley who had been inactive for a year and 3 months, had gone through 2 training camps, and had suffered a back injury while sledding.

let's put that aside for now, let's just look at how they looked in their respective fights immediately after their losses:

Cotto vs Yuri Foreman (28-0, won WBA LMW championship in last bout):



Mosley vs Sergio Mora (22-1-1, best known for reality TV show 'The Contender')



Cotto, directly after losing to Pac, takes on a much bigger, slick, undefeated champion and after easily winning the first few rounds and looking great under Steward's tutelage, KOed him following a leg injury.

Mosley, on the other hand, struggled mightily against a weight-drained Mora, gassed after 4-5 rounds (just like he did against Floyd) then proceeded to throw weak pitty pat punches, struggle to breathe, and get hit flush by a man who admitted to taking it easy so as not to hurt Shane. In the end, after a horribly bad fight, a controversial draw was handed out.

So if Cotto is/was shot, then Mosley was bombarded with canons.

[AP♠]

exactly





IF pac whoops margarito,i don't wanna hear that hes shot.especially for a cotto rematch.cottos taken just as much punishment.

[ThePrince]

exactly





IF pac whoops margarito,i don't wanna hear that hes shot.especially for a cotto rematch.cottos taken just as much punishment.

Everyone that Pacquiao destroys is shot automatically.

Barrera had beaten Naseem Hamed (35-0), Enrique Sanchez (28-1-2), Erik Morales (41-0), Johnny Tapia (52-2-2), and Kevin Kelley (54-5-2) in succession in the 2 years before he fought Pacquiao, and he was only 29 years old. Pac demolished him, made his corner throw in the towel... so of course Marco was shot, even though he went on a 6 fight winning streak against the likes of Morales, Ayala, Juarez after Pac.

Hell even if Pac beat Floyd, you'd hear 'oh but he only fought twice in 3 years and he was 34, Floyd was shot!'

Losing to a great fighter doesn't make one shot, losing your speed, power, accuracy, stamina, general ability and skills (see Jones, Roy) makes you shot. Cotto has many fights left in him, especially with Steward tweaking his style and making improvements. He looked GREAT in the Foreman fight- footwork, stance (less hunching), and his jab especially.

[AP♠]

Everyone that Pacquiao destroys is shot automatically.

Barrera had beaten Naseem Hamed (35-0), Enrique Sanchez (28-1-2), Erik Morales (41-0), Johnny Tapia (52-2-2), and Kevin Kelley (54-5-2) in succession in the 2 years before he fought Pacquiao, and he was only 29 years old. Pac demolished him, made his corner throw in the towel... so of course Marco was shot, even though he went on a 6 fight winning streak against the likes of Morales, Ayala, Juarez after Pac.

Hell even if Pac beat Floyd, you'd hear 'oh but he only fought twice in 3 years and he was 34, Floyd was shot!'

Losing to a great fighter doesn't make one shot, losing your speed, power, accuracy, stamina, general ability and skills (see Jones, Roy) makes you shot. Cotto has many fights left in him, especially with Steward tweaking his style and making improvements. He looked GREAT in the Foreman fight- footwork, stance (less hunching), and his jab especially.

Very well said mann.if margarito loses we can only find out afterwords.I think a rematch looms regardless win or lose.

[ThePrince]

Very well said mann.if margarito loses we can only find out afterwords.I think a rematch looms regardless win or lose.

I think a Cotto-Margarito match is the logical future matchup. If it's half as good as the first fight, we'll have a great war on our hands, and it will answer a lot of questions. Easy fight to sell too, that's a real PPV match. Probably will have to wait until early 2012 though, unless Chavez flakes out again.

[DARKSEID]

Yes, this is EXACTLY the point I've been trying to make, but everybody keeps jumping on me like I'm a floyd hater- I just wanted to give credit where it's due

People can't accept that no matter what we thought of Mosley before he fought Floyd, he proved that he wasn't it anymore as soon as he fought mora.

Mosley was so obviously struggling to breath(you can tell by the huge gulps of air he's taking) by the 4th or 5th round that it's impossible to ignore that shane is shot.

[Pullcounter]

before mayweather accepted the shane fight, all *****s could do was say how old mosley was and how mosley didn't deserve the fight.

[Russian Crushin]

Never thought Cotto was shot. He lost to 2 top P4P fighters in the world and beat everyone else.

Looks good and will beat almost anyone

[MaD RoBoT]

haters will continue to hate regardless

if ever cotto & mosley fight again, cotto would still win

[daggum]

before mayweather accepted the shane fight, all *****s could do was say how old mosley was and how mosley didn't deserve the fight.

so true. the funny thing was how it appeared floyd was ducking someone so old and shopworn. we are used to floyd ducking prime opponents but this was a new low. even *****s said mosley was garbage until the fight was signed then it was wow this is a great fight mosley's the best welterweight in da world! typical ***** hypocritical behavior.