Cotto will leave a greater legacy in the sport than Mayweather!

[Phil Ivey]

At least be impartial TS, you put SD for Mayweather-Oscar yet you don't do the same for Cotto-Clottey????? Putting Foreman really? Alfonso Gomez > Foreman. Btw Marg is stylistically a nightmare for Cotto... he would've beaten him either way (not excusing him if he did indeed had plaster hands but nothing has been proven). Cotto's resume at WW is better than Floyd's but I Floyd's overall resume beats Cotto's. There's a reason why Cotto's never been top p4p.

[UmarImranKhalil]

Cotto got beat by Margarito fair and square. As far as we know. So, no asterisks.


Certainly, the outcome of the fight was congruent with my prediction of it. Cotto simply can not handle a high-level version of that style. He was not the complete fighter he was believed to be by many in early 2008.

[Mr. Philadel]

love Cotto to death...thats my ****in dude....got mad respect for Floyd's skills but the love aint there like I got for Cotto....BUT lets be REAL my dudes....Floyd will leave a bigger foot print in the game than Cotto when its all said and done....but Cotto will be way more RESPECTED by ppl who don't usually give respect!!!!...trust me!!

[AndrewDobson]

cotto is doing it ... fans remmeber the fights and mayweather
hasnt fought much has he ? ...

cotto win lose or draw fights them all

people will remember cotto

the OP should win best post of the week !

[AndrewDobson]

mayweather hasnt had a real fight in years ...

he is becoming irrelevant

[UmarImranKhalil]

love Cotto to death...thats my ****in dude....got mad respect for Floyd's skills but the love aint there like I got for Cotto....BUT lets be REAL my dudes....Floyd will leave a bigger foot print in the game than Cotto when its all said and done....but Cotto will be way more RESPECTED by ppl who don't usually give respect!!!!...trust me!!

Because he isn't a trashtalker and he keeps his head down and just takes fights which usually deliver spills and thrills. That's it.


It isn't to do with the comparative quality of their respective bodies of work at all.

[shade darkar]

i dont think so.

[UmarImranKhalil]

What achievements are greater than the achievement of beating great fighters?

Being a 5 weight world champion means little if he didn't beat the best fighters along with it.

What kind of achievement is owning a crap-strap if you didn't take it off a truly worthy holder...like a Hernandez or a Castillo?

Being a three-weight world champion means little if you didn't beat anyone worthy of holding the straps in each case.

We can do this all day and night. The upshot is, you're biased here.



And, as illustrated in an earlier post, your "lesser opposition" claim is bogus (LOL @ implying the Mosley who Cotto fought was somehow "prime" by comparison to the one who fought Floyd).

[Uturn]

Of course.

[joelab75]

better resume doesnt always the better fighter though. but Cotto is definitely a hall of famer when they look back at what he accomplished and the level of oppositions he faced. there is no doubt Cotto will still fighting the best out there.