Who's greater, Miguel Cotto or Vitali Klitschko?

[El Angel]

Vitali is an ATG, but Cotto is surely not a bum.

About your thread, Cotto will obviously win on the resume, so the thread is redundant for starters.

But I'm interested in hearing why Cotto should be a greater fighter?

If his résumé and skills are better, he's the greater fighter. Unless there's some other definition for it I don't know of. Cotto has better wins and acting like Vitali is more skilled than him is garbage. They are very close in that area with strong cases being made for both, more often for Cotto according to the poll.

[El Angel]

The question is whether Cotto is the type of fighter that would beat Vitali, theoretically speaking. He has the skills yes, and the heart, but his chin is too suspect. Vitali goes toe to toe with his opponents, has heart and an iron chin.

Cotto loses because of a weaker chin.

This is NOT what I'm asking. You can compare guys from two different weight classes on resume and skills, some people seem to be having an issue with it.

[Castro Jr]

Clearly Vitali Clearly

[El Angel]

Let's look at two of Cotto's loses, against Margarito and Pacquiao. Both tough and durable fighters, comparable to Vitali in many ways. Vitali is the type of fighter that would beat Cotto too, should they be the same weight.

Again, that isn't what the poll is asking. You can't blame Vitali for fighting in a weak era, but it's not like we can up his résumé with what ifs because we think he'd beat people. We can only judge on what we've seen and what opponents we've seen it against.

[El Angel]

Clearly Vitali Clearly

Care to explain mate?

[Anderson Silva]

Cotto is such a bad boxer its unreal, I guess its his "look" that makes you guys like him. Watching him vs Floyd was such a terrible fight yet all you people thought it was such a great effort.. haha morons.

[El Angel]

Cotto is such a bad boxer its unreal, I guess its his "look" that makes you guys like him. Watching him vs Floyd was such a terrible fight yet all you people thought it was such a great effort.. haha morons.

Has Silva woke up? at least gave a flying fuck about him, even though it was only for a night.

[Szef]

Cotto has the better resume, but Vitali's dominance and his succesful comeback after 4 years make him the greater fighter.

Plus he's never been beaten up so badly as Cotto by Margarito - (Who was an average fighter, at best), sure Vitali lost 2 fights but he was ahead on points in both of them and was never dominated and humilated like Cotto.

[Weltschmerz]

Cotto has the better resume, but Vitali's dominance and his succesful comeback after 4 years make him the greater fighter.

Plus he's never been beaten up so badly as Cotto by Margarito - (Who was an average fighter, at best), sure Vitali lost 2 fights but he was ahead on points in both of them and was never dominated and humilated like Cotto.

^^ this. You have to look at not only wins, but also loses, and how it all went down, if you wanna compare them like that.

[RadioBox]

I love it how years later.. Vitali's shining moment is still getting his face torn off by a obese, ******ed corpse version of Lennox Lewis.