Castillo nd Cotto lacking fitness

[MiamiVice]

Castillo and Cotto earlier in there careers used to be alot more active imo and maintained there power, but since they been struggling bad to make 135 and 140 respectively they have appeared jaded in fights....i know they have the power advantage on the night, but i think its time these guys moved up to 147 and gave us a great fight with the winner fighting PBF(**** Hatton). Cuz they are not looking as good as they used to be due to the starving and stuff.

[GEOFFHAYES]

Joe Calzaghe's got it right, he does struggle to make 168 but once he's made weight he doesn't go eating loads (and/or drinking loads of water) because he says he'd lose sharpness if he shot back up in weight quickly.

[Left2body]

Cotto does not lack fitness, Cotto just out grew the jrWW division. Cotto is also moving up to 147lbs. Part of Castillo's punishment for not making weight was that he can not fight at any weight class below 140lbs.

Castillo never appeared out of shape for his big fights. He looked less than inspired in some fights versus average Joe's but he never appeared to have a stamina or fitness problem......other than not making weight.

Either way this post is moot because they are both moving up 1 weight class Castillo to jrWW and Cotto to WW.

[joeytrimble]

uhh did this guy just watch cotto last fight? he destroyed paulies face

[OctoberRed]

Cotto has slowed down a bit, so has Castillo. Looking forward to how they perform at their new weights.

[dino]

i heard castillo even has trouble getting below 140

[borikua]

Post from MiguelCotto.com:

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 7:57 pm Post subject: Cotto is training hard

"Just got back from the bairoa gym today and it was full of talent.

All the fighters were in the gym today training out.

Jose Cotto, Miguel Cotto, Daniel azuquita Jimenez, Henry El Nitro Bruseles
and Moncho. alot of young amatures were there also.


Miguel Cotto is already looking in shape and he's Hitting that punching bag REALLY HARD!!!!. There was a little boy around the age of 9 who was in the ring hitting the mitts, they were showing him the basic one two punch. Cotto got in the ring and showed the boy how to properly stand and then he showed him how to swing his upper body with the punch. Cotto carrected the boy a few times and showed him more technics on throwing a power punch and in a few minutes, the little boy was throwing a hard right hand that sounded like a mans punch. (using Cottos technics)

Miguel Cotto is not sparring yet but he's doing alot of floor excersice like the speed bag, punching bag, working the mitts in combinations ( He's throwing very fast quick combinations with lots of power behind them).


There is still no oponent for Cotto yet. Bob Arum arives from vacation on thursday and its him who desides who cotto is fighting. there a few oponents but we wont know until arum desides. So dont be fool by what other websites say....

There saying Vivian Harris and a few others, These are all rumors. although a posibility but the truth is that theres no oponent yet."

[GEOFFHAYES]

I hope these guys stay at 140 for Hatton. Neither guy is as polished as Hatton, and they'd be standing in front of Hatton (which is what Hatton likes to work off), Ricky beats them both but may have to dig abit to do so..