if only cotto was the best fighter

[Hyper Knuckles]

What would boxing's landscape even look like if Cotto carried the sport today? If only he passed on Tony and fought P-Will instead, and won. Maybe Shane still would've wrecked Margs. It's been interesting to watch his style transform over the years. I'll always have him to thank for introducing me to boxing.

[spytactics]

If floyd wouldve of fought cotto's resume would he still be undeafeted?

[DeelDough]

Cotto is top 5 welterweight of all time. Probably Top 20 Jr MW.

[Kagami Taiga]

Cotto is top 5 welterweight of all time. Probably Top 20 Jr MW.

Wtf is wrong with this site?

[boxingfeind]

he is truly the only fighter that doesn't duck anyone, is a warrior, and a fighter whol is always fighting the top man when ever

guys like floyd and pac might be better boxers, but they don't fight the best, they fight good fighters, but not the ones they should the cream of the crop

cotto is that fighter

Cotto is that fighter who ducked Paul Williams and fought Margarito instead who Paul Willaims beat,Ducked Sergio Martinez when he was at his prime, and fought the weakest belt holder at 154 called Yuri Foreman.Never made any attempts at unifying his 140 pound WBO belt with Floyd WBC belt when Floyd wanted to unify.Sorry but we have plenty of Cotto`s in the fight game,one of them is called Manny Pacquiao.

[Hyper Knuckles]

If floyd wouldve of fought cotto's resume would he still be undeafeted?

Hard to say.. you'd have to be extremely blessed to make it through such a rigorous pace. That's a marathon of pure suck. Cotto deserves to walk away from the sport right now, he's given his fans everything he has.. he's just too damned stubborn to lay over and let past transgressions define his legacy. Glad he got his vindication against Margarito and I'm thrilled he's seeking out Martinez's lineal belt despite his shortcomings.
It's going to be grand reading about him in the history books years from now, how he raised hell against all the greats in his era and carried himself on an equal pedestal despite never winning "The Big One". Maybe Martinez is the ticket .

[soul_survivor]

Yeah seems some people are confused about the word resume...Cotto has a good resume, his results from it aren't as great however. He has a very strong list of opponents though, more so than many other fighters recently anyway. As he says himself sometimes "I want the big names" or whatever he says, who else talks that way and really means it? The guy would fight anyone.

Yep, Cotto does, more often than not fight the best. It's just a shame he ran into Magy and Pac at 147 and was never big enough to be THE MAN at 154, even though a post prime Cotto in his least effective weight gave Mayweather even more trouble than Hatton and almost as much as DLH.

Mosley, Quintana, Malignaggi, Judah, Urkal, Gomez, Clottey, Foreman, and Margarito aren't enough? He's a 4 time, 3 division champion in an era where granted they don't mean as much as they used to, but that goes for fighters with titles to a degree.

He doesn't need the lineal MW title to be a first ballot HOF. That's more than secure. I'd bet my account he goes in on his first ballot.

Agree totally, ma ***** Cotto is a 1st ballot HOFer, seriously, anyone can make it into the HOF when you have Gatti in there and a fictional fighter such as Rocky lol