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The difference in pressure between GGG and Margarito is one guy does it with extreme skill, the other used his chin to get through incoming. GGG won't take near the damage Margarito did and likely get Cotto earlier.
Besides, Cotto has already PROVEN he has balls, proven his mettle, and took two career damaging beatings already to go with a high-contact career where he's a first ballot HOF'er without GGG. It's just not a fight he's likely to have much a chance in and the risk wouldn't be worth it.
Plus, he is insanely small for a modern MW. It's not the 50's where the average MW was 5'8.......most of the guys are 6' and walk around at 180+. The only MW he beat was a carrer JMW with bad legs........good timing for him. But doesn't show much for what he would do with the bigger, younger field of MW out there who can really crack.
Were I Cotto, I'd try to get Canelo for a nice chunk of change, then challenge Floyd, assuming he beats Pac, then walk........I think he beats Canelo, gives Floyd a tough out and puts $30 mil+ in his pocket, even more if he can offer Floyd a crack at the 'real' mw title for win # 50....
I think those are two fights he can get.....then walk. Let the real, full-sized MWs fight it out for the 'Lineal' title, which IMHO, is pretty easy for GGG at this point. The guys that are on the radar that can crack he already beat handily in the amateurs including Lee, the guy Lee just KO'd and a few others........and I don't see Quillen or Jacobs lasting too long either.
Cotto is borrowing the belt that will eventually belong to GGG. But he's earned it. And he should use it for those two fights and be done without GGG.......just unnecessary punishment in the career of an unquestioned warrior (except the nuts who know nothing)....
The difference in pressure between GGG and Margarito is one guy does it with extreme skill, the other used his chin to get through incoming. GGG won't take near the damage Margarito did and likely get Cotto earlier.
Besides, Cotto has already PROVEN he has balls, proven his mettle, and took two career damaging beatings already to go with a high-contact career where he's a first ballot HOF'er without GGG. It's just not a fight he's likely to have much a chance in and the risk wouldn't be worth it.
Plus, he is insanely small for a modern MW. It's not the 50's where the average MW was 5'8.......most of the guys are 6' and walk around at 180+. The only MW he beat was a carrer JMW with bad legs........good timing for him. But doesn't show much for what he would do with the bigger, younger field of MW out there who can really crack.
Were I Cotto, I'd try to get Canelo for a nice chunk of change, then challenge Floyd, assuming he beats Pac, then walk........I think he beats Canelo, gives Floyd a tough out and puts $30 mil+ in his pocket, even more if he can offer Floyd a crack at the 'real' mw title for win # 50....
I think those are two fights he can get.....then walk. Let the real, full-sized MWs fight it out for the 'Lineal' title, which IMHO, is pretty easy for GGG at this point. The guys that are on the radar that can crack he already beat handily in the amateurs including Lee, the guy Lee just KO'd and a few others........and I don't see Quillen or Jacobs lasting too long either.
Cotto is borrowing the belt that will eventually belong to GGG. But he's earned it. And he should use it for those two fights and be done without GGG.......just unnecessary punishment in the career of an unquestioned warrior (except the nuts who know nothing)....
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