Comments Thread For: Cotto: No Doubt I Would Beat Pacquiao in a Rematch

[Lords]

Hey man. You get GREEN! I know for a fact that without a catch weight, MANNY wouldn't be able to keep COTTO off him. This is the best version of COTTO because of how he's matured as a fighter and learned from past mistakes. His defense is much better and he seems to understand why he lost the first time against MANNY. People don't understand what catch weights do to fighters. But obviously WE DO. It drains your power, chin, and stamina. I doubt MANNY can take those power shots from a fully hydrated COTTO. He can punch! I wouldn't mind seeing him against MAYNEVER either. He always wanted to fight him but we all know how cricket ARUM is! I hope he signs with Golden Boy but if he is able to get a rematch with MANNY, he might stay.

Good post^. In the Manny fight Cotto's footwork was TERRIBLE, he had basically trained himself, and fighting at 145 was a huge mistake. Cotto right now is 10x better then the Cotto Manny fought. I would love for Cotto to fight Manny at 150 and beat him so I can laugh at all you idiots counting him out.

[boxingfan76]

I really do respect everyone's opinion but did you guys actually watch the fight against Margarito this weekend? Please stop being fans for a second and be real. Cotto won against Margarito who isn't even the same anymore by using movement because he still can't take punches like he use to and by holding on when Margarito got too close. Seriously folks, Cotto is not built as a boxer that throws combos and moves. He's not a pure boxer but he was able to do it against Margarito because Margarito is slow as hell and is extremely easy to hit. I've watched the 1st fight between Cotto and Margarito many times and its almost the exact same thing. In the first fight, Cotto boxed the hell out of Margarito like he did this past weekend but the only difference is this time he got the hell out of there when Margarito came too close or he held on for dear life. He still wasn't able to hurt Margarito at all while it was obvious he still can't take Margarito's punches. I mean, i like Cotto and everyone knows he has more skills than Margarito but if Pac didn't beat the **** out of Margarito and mess up his eye then Margarito's eye wouldn't have been that bad that night.

thank you green k the problem is people cant think without the fan bias,people need to be honest,good post thats exactley how it played out,what bugs me is fanatics cant even realize what they see with their very own eyes? I mean there's guys on here saying cotto wasnt gassed?? saying he hardly got hit?? saying he wasnt running for dear life particularly towards the end when margs started landing with more frequency? thats exactley what happened ,cotto was saved by the doc despite being ahead on points,it wouldve been an interesting 3 rounds he may have ran fo anoither 3 rounds to a points victory but Idunnnnoo the way things were going.Im not dis*****g he was well ahead he was but thats exactley how it was the first time around ,you could clearly see cotto wasnt taking margs shots well at allllll.,if that fight woulda been 15 cotto wouldve been ktfo for sure guy is a 6 rounds fighter and cant take any form of sustained pressure or punishment,to me hes the exact same cotto of before only he ran alittle more and took full advantage of margs smashed eye.

[Laborer]

I can definitely see this fight happening.

Team Pac are so full-of-****, they would be nuts to fight Marquez again.

Clearly Bob Arum will not allow Manny to fight Floyd, as proven by the recent revelations that Arum's (completely unnecessary) "investors" turned out to be old offers that have already been rejected.....
http://fighthype.com/pages/content11320.html

I can see a Cotto/Pac rematch happening.

Aint that the truth!

Bob will always find a way for the Cotto-Pacroid 2 to overcome the initial resistance from the people (or Sheeple) and make this fight a more palatable one. Raise the Catchweight a little bit higher than the last time, and every writer in the planet will no doubt concoct a story that describes the uphill battle Pacroid is going to take to win the fight...

Who needs Floyd, right? The sheeple have already bought into and drank the Pac-Arum Kool Aid a ling time ago. This is going to be another 'Hit' for Arum!

[JOM'S]

at 154 yes, otherwise, probly not

.... at what weight?

weight dont matter ending will be the same...

anyway I dont mind seeing a rematch between them, but that is only after PAC-PBF ...

[boxingfan76]

Cotto might be able to win if he can somehow learn how to counter punch like JMM but until then, he doesn't have a chance.

the problems with cotto are many especially against pacman,heres a few :first of all cottos stamina is shiaat he always gasses after 5 rounds,that alone would ensure a tko loss against pac or just about any of the top guys at 154.secondly he has no power in his right hand an extremley necessary weapon against pac since his left hand brawling style cant get out of the way of right hands.Cotto cant take sustained punishment and when he does he stops fighting and starts running.pac has too much speed .people dont know or care to know or realize that despite most of pacs foes being completley washed up or old, delahoya,cotto,diaz were natural lefties fighting as conventionals and agianst a southpaw thats suicide because your power is gone ,you have nothing to really counter with,against a conventinal that works. natural right handers like clottey,morales,even mosley to a degree and jMM proved that its a big help against pacman.delahoys even in his prime always struggled with lefties ,because again his power hand was at angles that wouldnt help plus he never knew how to fight lefties anyway.Cotto will never beat pac. stylisticilly its all wrong,and physically even worse,Cotto is too late in his career to change anything and his last 5 performances have well proven that he fights exactley the same.just like pacman after the second jmm fight to me he fought exactley the same but they put him in with weaker yet bigger comp and people started claiming a false improvement or transformation that really wasnt there.Pac improved from the 1stjmm fight to the 2nd jmm fight ,but hes essentially the exact same,same with cotto.

[Lords]

weight dont matter ending will be the same...

anyway I dont mind seeing a rematch between them, but that is only after PAC-PBF ...

Even Manny himself said the catchweight did matter..

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Last Saturday in New York's Madison Square Garden, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) avenged his 2008 TKO loss to Antonio Margarito. After a great display of boxing, Cotto stopped Margarito in the tenth round. The Mexican boxer's right eye was swollen shut and the ringside doctors would not allow him to continue. There is one more defeat that Cotto wants to avenge - a November 2009 TKO loss to Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38KOs).

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I've been thinking that Cotto's win last Saturday did more to hinder a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight than OST. In some ways Miguel's win took some of the pressure off of Bob Arum to make the next most natural fight out there. A Cotto rematch is completely sellable and given the fact that Cotto's last fight was lucrative, the avenging his loss angle might work to reel in alot of the Pacquiao flatworms. Add to that Manny has looked terrible in his last "rematch" you get another level of intrigue and more money than a Marquez fight.

If it’s at any other weight than 154 he takes another beating. That guys face swells up faster than the frickin' Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, seriously, that guys face swells faster than a p o r n star's penis.

Whichever way this goes, the money stays in house and Arum keeps on doing what made him rich in the first place.

[GodInFleshSuit]

True Cotto looked like a prime fighter on Saturday BUT Pacquiao's constant aggression and superior speed would overwhelm Cotto again. I think the fight would be more competitive and it has the angle to sell, but Cotto should be happy w/ the Marg revenge and leave that one alone.

[GodInFleshSuit]

True Cotto looked like a prime fighter on Saturday BUT Pacquiao's constant aggression and superior speed would overwhelm Cotto again. I think the fight would be more competitive and it has the angle to sell, but Cotto should be happy w/ the Marg revenge and leave that one alone.

He should go after Mayweather now. The public was once drooling over that matchup and now it's a realistic fight to make. I'd shell out $60 to see it. I think Mayweather is the best P4P in boxing but I think Cotto has the style to possibly beat him.

[Mr. Philadel]

Last Saturday in New York's Madison Square Garden, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) avenged his 2008 TKO loss to Antonio Margarito. After a great display of boxing, Cotto stopped Margarito in the tenth round. The Mexican boxer's right eye was swollen shut and the ringside doctors would not allow him to continue. There is one more defeat that Cotto wants to avenge - a November 2009 TKO loss to Manny Pacquiao (54-3-2, 38KOs).

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