Mayweather vs. Cotto post fight Thread -DON'T make new threads about the fight

[Mr. Philadel]

MurkaMan...i see you are totally gassed up, and ready to ride the fmj train to the end of the line...its all good...personally, i don't have a favorite fighter such as yourself, but cotto is a fighter i can respect...he's fought everbody they put in front of him, and was always game, win or lose, to go out swinging...i respect fmj's skills as well, but i hope cotto has enough left in the tank, to give fmj a tough fight, only because the top fighters, imo, are getting involved in too many mismatches, where the outcome is already predetermined, and laugh all the way to the bank...it must be good for a top fighters fanbase, to see their guy, always matched up with fighters, who are either past prime, totally shot, have to move up two divisions to fight 'em, or just not on their skill level...i guess i'm too old school, for what passes in today's boxing world...lol

that made me LOL

B.Hop gonna son Chad...oops my bad, wrong thread!!

[wmute]

That was soOo kind of Hagler..... I thought it was more about the $$$ who else could he have fought to generate that type of revenue???

All I know is 04/06/87 Leonard>Hagler..... That's all that matters

That might answer the previous post. Not mine.

Come captain bold, tell us how Leonard's "retirement" is not ducking.

[wmute]

He had no reason to face Hagler he was a weightclas above him! This means Hagler ducked Spinks too, right?

Fair enough afterwards but, I'm not sure Hagler really wanted it to be honest. Maybe for a year but, stopped pursuing quickly.

Ok then for before, let us not call it "ducking" just "not wanting none of" Hagler.

As for after... come on... one year of demanding a fight is "not really wanting it", "stopping quickly". you can't be serious...

[calamaro]

More like Floyd Maravilla. Lineal welter against lineal middle champ.

[bojangles1987]

Stop it. Now. All of you.

[The Noose]

such was srl's career...imo he had all the talent, but was a media darling, prima donna fighter, who beat everybody on his terms, who claimed he didn't do rematches after beating hearns, but when he chose to slug it out with duran and lost straight up, immediately begged for a rematch, especially after he heard duran had slacked off after the first fight...his politics was mad corny, and all the retiring and unretiring started to wear thin with a lot of old school cats i know...cats were cracking up, when terry norris pretty much ended his career...

I was never a fan of Leonard, until some years ago when i realised just how great his accomplishments were. And how many people dont give him his just dues because he was a media darling and flashy at times. Its a shame people come up with so many excuses as to why he won thos big fights without seeing he was just the better fighter.
Hearns was gassed.....
Duran was out of shape for the rematches....
Hagler was old and fought righty for the first 4 rounds....
Benitez was cut.....
ALL excuses. Leonard deserves credit for those wins.

mj223, i can see why you would favor srl, in the hagler fight, but at the same time, you should be able to see why, many who supported hagler, and even casuals, felt srl shoeshined hagler out of his title, when the adage, you gotta whoop the champ, should have applied when it came to beating hagler for his undisputed middleweight title....now, after how srl got on his bicycle in the championship rounds, which was one of the first fights to move to the 12 round format from 15, mj223 can you honestly say srl whooped hagler for his undisputed middleweight title?, or was he more interested in throwing some meaningless flurries, in the last 10 seconds of each round, to steal rounds with the judges and entertain the crowd....

I dont agree with the notion you have to do more to beat the champ. I dont see how that is fair. Score it round by round without bias towards either fighter.

And i believe its a total myth that Leonard threw meaningless flurries at the end of the rounds. His punches throughout the fight were sharper, cleaner, harder, and his flurries had Hagler covering up, and Leonard when pinned against the ropes getting hit by Hagler, fought his way out with spectacular flurries that stopped Haglers attack. For a guy who hadnt fought in 3 years, what he did was incredible.

[tredh]

I want to see how Cotto is gonna react to the body shots PBF throws. That jab to the pit of the stomach PBF throws does damage on 2 fronts. It takes it toll over the course of the fight and it also stops the fighter from applying pressure and makes them reset.

[Paclan]

Mayweather Cotto is going to be just like Ali- Foreman

The way cotto uses his length and feet reminds of the way ali fights, and foreman and mayweather are both black.

[Phil Ivey]

Lol wut? Lol

[bojangles1987]

You'e doing this to piss people off. STOP.