Comments Thread For: Austin Trout Shocks Miguel Cotto With Lopsided Win

[Sugar Q]

Cotto is a true warrior and I am a ride or die fan of his for life but this fight gave us a great idea of what would've happened to Cotto against Martinez. Martinez would've crushed Cotto probably within 5-7 rounds!!!! Last night's fight was a true jr.middle-wt vs a true welter-wt. Gotta love Cotto but Trout wasn't a good opponent for him especially at this stage of Cotto's career.

[cherpotpot]

Trout's size proved to wear Cotto down. Cotto struggled to win but his body was not willling. Looked like he was weakened by Trout's consistent jabs. So no matter how skilled he is or how well he prepared for it, he didn't prove to belong to that division. I wished he was not that gusty and should have fought a lesser opponent while getting used with fighting in that division. Anyway, kudos to Cotto for being so brave and taking on a big, young champion in Trout. At least now he knows that he can't fight Martinez.

[IMDAZED]

Boy Al Haymon has one hell of a stable. Pretty one-sided fight. Definitely don't want to see Cotto against Canelo now. Lots of smokescreens being thrown around these past few days. Get ready for the real news in the coming weeks.

[Beater_of_ass]

agreed. remember when Arum was talking about Chavez Jr vs Cotto? Cotto would've been murdered in 5 rounds. People need to realize Cotto is not as serious about his boxing career as guys like Bhop and Mayweather. He blows up/chubs out in between fights and then has to drain back down to fight weight. the only reason he went up to 154 is because it's less of a hassle to get down to 154 than 147. his obvious stamina issues tell me he will never beat a top elite fighter again in his career

I have to agree with this, but I also think the first Marg fight took a hell of a lot off of Cotto. Since then he hasn't been able to go past 8 rounds well, he did against Marg (II) but he was wearing out bad. Against Mayweather he was done after 10 rounds, no more pop and any punch could KO him. He is shop worn as people have been saying but only just now, for the Mayweather fight he was in as top condition as he'll ever be from now on. He can make 147 but you can tell he is being lazy and he doesn't have the hunger anymore contrary to what he has been saying. He is fighting for the money, nothing wrong with that but it will cost him some of his fanbase myself included, especially with him walking out two fights in a row. The Mayweather fight was closer so I can handle him walking out on that with the scoring there is no excuse for last night.

[Ray Corso]

I'm glad he wasn't in there with a heavy handed fighter because he is primed to get hurt! He doesn't have good reactions and his motor is NOT running on all cylinders anymore. He's done! He had a few bad outings that took his power away and thats that! I hope he walks away and retires I'd hate to see this young man get KO'd badly! He had a nice run and made some decent money and now its time to stop! Nice fighter, good competitor! Ray.

[Averiguau]

Cotto is a true warrior and I am a ride or die fan of his for life but this fight gave us a great idea of what would've happened to Cotto against Martinez. Martinez would've crushed Cotto probably within 5-7 rounds!!!! Last night's fight was a true jr.middle-wt vs a true welter-wt. Gotta love Cotto but Trout wasn't a good opponent for him especially at this stage of Cotto's career.

Indeed, I don't see Cotto wining Martinez as this guy is like Pacquiao at 160. ...and Cotto wining Canelo? I doubt it.. unless pure boxing & great movements are applied, there must be no KO on Cotto's mind!

[IMDAZED]

I have to agree with this, but I also think the first Marg fight took a hell of a lot off of Cotto. Since then he hasn't been able to go past 8 rounds well, he did against Marg (II) but he was wearing out bad. Against Mayweather he was done after 10 rounds, no more pop and any punch could KO him. He is shop worn as people have been saying but only just now, for the Mayweather fight he was in as top condition as he'll ever be from now on. He can make 147 but you can tell he is being lazy and he doesn't have the hunger anymore contrary to what he has been saying. He is fighting for the money, nothing wrong with that but it will cost him some of his fanbase myself included, especially with him walking out two fights in a row. The Mayweather fight was closer so I can handle him walking out on that with the scoring there is no excuse for last night.

He's never been able to go past 8 rounds well, even Malignaggi tagged him a bit in the latter rounds.

[b Murphington]

i just need to take a moment and laugh at all the ppl saying this fight was close, having it a draw, some ppl even had cotto winning???

that was a 117-111 fight for trout, maybe u can argue 116-112 for trout....u gotta watch fights closer....even the rounds that i had cotto winning, he didn't dominate at all, he just made the rounds close, trout dominated at least 4 or 5 rounds, cotto didn't win a round after the 6th from what i saw

[WESS]

I had it 113-115 Trout.

Gave Cotto rounds 2-5 and 10. Anyone could argue that Cotto didn't win those early rounds but either way it wasn't a blow out. Either guy could have won but Trout made his mark and did what he had to do. The younger faster taller man won and i give my respect to Trout for stepping into Cotto's house and winning.

IMO Cotto didn't finish strong enough in the last 2 rounds to make an argument that it was a robbery. I think anyone who has it a draw or either man winning by a point or two is fair.

Cotto’s aggression early on had me favoring him while Trout turned it on later in the fight to give him most of those rounds. All and all I thought it was a great fight and wouldn’t mind seeing a rematch. However Trout vs Alvarez would be the fight to see at 154 now!

[mikeMack]

Trout battered the small Cotto

Trout won big and it was no upset. Sad to see Trout being backed by sammy the pimp and his 2 chimps. Trout don't need al pimp haymon.