Cotto: "I Gave Pacquiao the Key to Victory by Exchanging Blows."

[BorderPatrol]

Agree with Cotto in that when you elect to go blow for blow with a fighter who is as fast as Manny, you will lose.He will land 6 to your 2 shots. You gotta pick your spots, try and avoid damage and HOPE that you land the type of shots that end the fight in your favor. Manny is simply too fast and punches from different angles. His punches catch you off-guard, and you find yourself on your asss. Cotto does have a chance though, and perhaps a different approach will yield different results. He cannot try and out shoot Manny though.

[KING MEAT]

I kinda agree with him. He was doing ok when he boxed Pac behind the jab. He got caught with that uppercut when he was swinging for the fences, trading with Pac which was ******. And he never recovered.

Honestly though, he doesnt beat Pac in a rematch, not a ***in chance.

Its either Cotto forgot how to keep doin it or mustve been something that pac did to make cotto stop throwin jabs. This is kindof a fanboy to say but pac is an offensive tactician, he will adjusts his ammuniton mid-game.

[bojangles1987]

Its either Cotto forgot how to keep doin it or mustve been something that pac did to make cotto stop throwin jabs. This is kindof a fanboy to say but pac is an offensive tactician, he will adjusts his ammuniton mid-game.

It's not being a fanboy. It's completely discrediting Pacquiao to say Cotto just stopped jabbing. Pacquiao is an extremely hard fighter to neutralize, even the fighter everyone says did the best job, Marquez, got the sh** kicked out of him in two fights. Pacquiao did an obviously underrated job of making Cotto pay every time he jabbed, that's why Cotto stopped jabbing.

[-Antonio-]

Pac timed Cotto's jab too though. if you are a left hand heavy fighter you are going to have trouble against Pac already. You have to be able to land the right hand and keep him at a good distance. only Morales and JMM have been able to do this really. Mosley is too old, and less of a boxer than those two.

Cotto is a guy who has to lead and finish with his left hand most of the time. I do think Manny would force him to throw a lot more right hands, but will it make that much of a difference? Cotto is better served moving down to 147 and fighting these other guys like Berto or Bradley.

[boxingfan_123]

i like cotto but even if he changed his gameplan i still dont see him winning

[Daniel Alpha]

Pac is always feeling his opponents in the first and second rounds. That has always been the case with the exception of Hatton who came out smoking in the very first round forcing Pac to throw bunches of combos.

Cotto tried to box in the early rounds but was being caught with flurries of punches. He was actually KD'ed by a right hook doing the box style. He changed style and tried to exchange with Pac and that didn't work either.

The key to his defeat is not about lack of boxing skills nor the change of style... It isn't about his decision to exchange punches with Pac either.

It is Pac's speed and awkward style that spelled his defeat. Pac was throwing blazing punches at angles he can't anticipate.

The key to neutralizing somebody like Pac is speed counter punching plus anticipating those awkward punches... easier said than done.

The only boxer I think that might have a chance in doing this is floyd... My honest opinion.

First, he boxed but he got caught frequently with combos to the head.
Second, he exchanged with pac and got mauled in the process.
Third, he run but was chased by pac all over the ring. Though at some point Pac was becoming frustrated with Cotto's runnning away.

I just don't know if speed counter punching will do the work... How can one counter those punches he can't see coming... just thinking....

I want to see Pac/JMM 3 and pac/floyd... I want to see if our theories here are true.

[oc9979]

The only way Cotto win this fight would be if he just counter Pacquiao but blow for blow he is not going to win. Pacquiao will land 3 to 1 on Cotto. I thought that Cotto was going to box in the fight and let Pacquiao come to him and counter with the left because Pacquiao is usually jumping in to attack. Also Pacquiao timed the jab, everytimes Cotto would throw the jab Pacquaio was looking to land his right hook.

[BMWM3P]

Cotto is right he was doing very well until he got wild and seriously hurt. He never recovered from that second knockdown and was out of the fight after that.

If he sticks to boxing, doesn't get into wild exchange and doesn't try to go punch for punch with Pac he might do much better.