The Trout fight is meaningless. Cotto was having issues with his trainer. He didn't come in prepared to fight. Of course, as a professional, you are SUPPOSED to always be ready, but stuff happens in real life. Anyone who saw the Mayweather fight, and then the Trout fight, can tell you, in Mayweather's words even, "That's not the Miguel Cotto I (Mayweather) fought." It was the worst performance I'd ever seen from him. At the time, I didn't know that it was related to training issues; I thought perhaps that the wear and tear of boxing had finally caught up to him. Nevertheless, that fight woke Cotto up to his training issues, and now everything has been cleared up. He's with a great trainer in Roach; Cotto has been performing excellently since the change. A Cotto-Trout rematch now would likely be close to the Geale fight in terms of outcome. The same goes for Lara, although I think a Lara fight would last longer. Cotto is better than both.
**** off with the excuses.
If Mayweather rematched Cotto straight after like he did Maidana and fought how he did against Manny he'd shut Cotto out! Fact.
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