He tried to do that at 147 but he was just too weak and brittle. No joint lubrication, no lean muscle mass and no flexibility. At 154 he is like a combination of Willie Pep and Pernell Whitaker. A young, hungry, lion-like, musclebound, undefeated version of Willie Pep and Pernell Whitaker.
Like in the DLH fight, except for that one compubox judges were piling up the punch stats for him with many punches that were blocked or slipped
Things like this make the win all that more impressive Cotto was obviously extremely prime and ready for this fight 2012 Cotto is 110% more complete and dangerous than the 2009 recovering from Margo Cotto who could barley squat flies
If you're talking about Floyd...nothing changed, he weighed in at 147 fight night. Weighed 151 at weigh in because he was drinking a lot of fluids. Question: do you have a holy shrine for Floyd in your home?