Can This Be Why Floyd Struggled With Cotto?

[Gorilla Dog]

I just think its that cotto, while being shot and past his prime, still is a top level guy, who would beat most welters if he went back down,,, staying at 154 is a mistake,,,

I think floyd fought a good fighter, and when that happens you get punched like floyd did..

floyd still won and cotto only had about 8 good rounds in him and then faded,,,,
plus floyd didnt move at all, like he usually does,,, it was like SRL-Duran 1 when duran came out and tried to go toe2toe with duran..
but cotto aint no duran and floyd beat him in a slugfest,,,,,,

My personal opinion and i have no facts to back this up: floyd had aged and lost his legs, took a year off and got on some stuff to restore legs and boxed circles around ghost,,,
if the floyd that fought ghost fought cotto,,, cotto wouldnt have won a round,,,
but thats my own conspiracy theory and like i said, have no facts to back it up
just my observation

Why does he have to be on "some stuff" to restore his legs? I provided plenty of reasons why it possibly wasn't his best performance, do you think none of the "stuff" I listed matters? It would matter for other fighters wouldn't it?

[Sugar Adam Ali]

Cotto has the style to bother Floyd when Floyd stand still,simple as that,Cotto fought the right fight and Floyd fought the wrong fight

exactly this^^^^^^^^^^^^

cotto fought the right fight, floyd fought the wrong fight,,
yet may is so good he still won

[MurkaMan]

I use the word struggled loosely, Cotto in my opinion only won about 3 rounds but why does no one ever provide an excuse or reason why Floyd loss a few rounds and got touched up a lil bit? Cotto is simply given credit for doing better than anyone else has in years vs Floyd but no one provides a reason why....

I can think of 3 major reasons quite easily why Floyd didn't have his best performance against Cotto.

1. Floyd was on his way to Prison in a month...is prison not a distraction?

2. Floyd was separated from his children and thats not cool heading into a fight

3. Floyd was moving up in weight where Cotto was comfortable, fighting a bigger guy at 154+

4. Roger Mayweather had Floyd fighting more offensively and being less responsible defensively

5. Floyd wanted the Pacquiao fight not Cotto on May 5 (40 million offer declined)

If any other fighter were going through these sorts of things heading into a fight there would of been a ton of excuses made for them. Remember Corrales and how going to prison is why he got KO'd by Floyd??? Remember MAB and how he loss to Pac because he had a metal plate in his head and a forest fire delayed his training? Remember Morales and how it was only his first fight at 135 so the Raheem shut out dont count?

With that said the only fight Floyd has ever come close to losing was against Castillo, that was his first fight at 135, vs the true champ, he had a torn rotator cuff, was clearly the smaller man and yet none of that can be used as an excuse???

Floyd was overtrained and its the only reason why. Leading up to the fight, his entire team did multiple interviews voicing their concern that he may potentially peek too soon. They all separatedly said they wanted him to take a few days to rest. I knew right away, that Floyd was overtrained when I saw him get hit by an old washed up Cotto. He looked terrible and over the hill. Leading up to the Ghost fight, Floyd's father said the first day he seen Floyd train, he told him he needed to do less, and let his body rest in between sessions, so once he healed up he would see results the next day. Because he felt that with Floyd being 36 and not 26, he needed to be easy on his body. Against Ghost, Floyd was MORE lightfooted than when he fought Gatti, and looked like he did at 130. They been saying some amazing things about Floyd this camp, but I am fearing that he may peek too soon again. The fight is about 16 days away.

[Deeznuts]

6. Floyd's nuts were sore from you gripping them so tightly

What he said^^^^

[JoeKidd]

5. Floyd wanted the Pacquiao fight not Cotto on May 5 (40 million offer declined)

So you're the resident comedian?

[Gorilla Dog]

So you're the resident comedian?

only on boxingscene is 40 million funny

[JoeKidd]

only on boxingscene is 40 million funny

The thing with comedians is they find an audience somewhere. Regardless how bad they are.

[mrpizza-nd_beer]

Why so many reasons? The only true reason is once Floyd fights a live fighter who he thought was a cherry pick they give him trouble.

How does someone come from a Cotto fight to a Guerrero fight? Only Floyd does that. Now we will see what a live opponent can do to this Floyd. I think he will finally lose this one. Let's just hope the weight draining technique isn't too bad on Canelo.

[Gorilla Dog]

Why so many reasons? The only true reason is once Floyd fights a live fighter who he thought was a cherry pick they give him trouble.

How does someone come from a Cotto fight to a Guerrero fight? Only Floyd does that. Now we will see what a live opponent can do to this Floyd. I think he will finally lose this one. Let's just hope the weight draining technique isn't too bad on Canelo.

If he is drained at 152 then what is he at 154?

[Larry the boss]

Why so many reasons? The only true reason is once Floyd fights a live fighter who he thought was a cherry pick they give him trouble.

How does someone come from a Cotto fight to a Guerrero fight? Only Floyd does that. Now we will see what a live opponent can do to this Floyd. I think he will finally lose this one. Let's just hope the weight draining technique isn't too bad on Canelo.

Smae way you get ko'd by Juan(who floyd is accused of cherry picking)and fight Rios,lol(who isnt even top 5 at 140)