Prime Cotto vs Today's Top Welters

[GhostofDempsey]

Who does he beat, who beats him?

[£-4-£]

He beats Porter, DSG, Thurman, Ugas. Dunno about the other top WWs

[lefthook2daliva]

He beats Porter, DSG, Thurman, Ugas. Dunno about the other top WWs

Agree except not sure about Porter. If Porter can take Cotto's offense, might be a bad style matchup.

[boogbx]

Prime Cotto beats every welter including Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao took advantage of a post Margarito weight drained Cotto but Cotto beats all of them.

[Beercules]

Cotto and Spence would be great, I take Miguel on points.

[Beercules]

Prime Cotto beats every welter including Manny Pacquiao. Pacquiao took advantage of a post Margarito weight drained Cotto but Cotto beats all of them.

I'm Puerto Rican and love Cotto but Pacquiao beats him period.


Bad style for Cotto

[billeau2]

I'm Puerto Rican and love Cotto but Pacquiao beats him period.


Bad style for Cotto

Ditto. I also love Cotto, found him to be very underrated after people fell in love with his body punching. Pac has too much speed off the line. Trinidad would have even more problems lol.

[billeau2]

Agree except not sure about Porter. If Porter can take Cotto's offense, might be a bad style matchup.

You think so? i don't know... Porter is a pressure fighter and certainly with relatively fast feet, Porter can catch up and smother a lot of boxers and punchers... But to me Cotto would destroy Porter to the body with technically better punches, while Porter tried to loop in and attack using his footwork.

Cotto was an incredible body puncher and I think he would catch Porter to the body.

[GhostofDempsey]

Ditto. I also love Cotto, found him to be very underrated after people fell in love with his body punching. Pac has too much speed off the line. Trinidad would have even more problems lol.

Trinidad vs. Cotto would have been a blast while it lasted. I see Tito stopping him in late rounds. Side note, I asked someone who is from the island of PR and a boxing fan how the popularity of Trinidad and Cotto compares...he said it wasn't even close, Trinidad gets way more love from Puerto Ricans.

[Tails]

Cotto would likely beat the majority but I see most being close fights. Cotto got lumped up and hurt at almost every weight class he was in at least once so I imagine the current 147lbers can do the same.

I see Spence and Crawford giving Cotto a good fight with the southpaw matchup. I also see Porter giving a good account of himself with his pressure style.