Of course? Cokes was an awesome fighter who's very very underrated imo. I think he wins on points here
Curtis Cokes was a seriously good fighter & champion...not quite "great", but a very good, excellent, balanced, fundamentally sound boxer/puncher, whose only misfortune was being in the same time and era as the great Jose Mantequilla Napoles.
It comes down to this - at 147 prime Cuevas destroys what he can hit, is Cokes good enough, on his bicycle, to stay safe and win rounds? I don't think so - when he gets tagged I think he goes down and his hopes with him... Cuevas mid to later rounds by TKO - or if Cokes runs the whole fight by UD.
I like Cuevas, after Cuevas won the championship only ATG's defeat him Cokes was a well skilled, a very, very good fighter. But was he really that much better than Sheilds? Gray? Or Weston? All very good fighter, that just happened to come along at the wrong time. (If those 3 were active today some of you would be screaming from the top of the mountain how they destroy every welterweight in history,they were very good fighters) Doubtful, and what happened to those 3, would happen to Cokes. Cuevas eventually catches him and stops him before the Championship distance. Cokes may have have a cracked eye socket, broken jaw, broken ribs, to add to his lost.