Miguel Cotto or Oscar De La Hoya, who's more skilled?

After watching Oscar's Prime fights and Cotto's the 2 fights I focused on were the Shane Mosley fights. And I looked at Hoya's first fight with Mosley and Cotto's because Oscar was more in his prime. Most people will say that was before oscar hired Mayweather Sr. but still Oscar was much younger.

Oscar had one of the best jabs at the time and threw combinations real good.
But his defense and his skills from what I seen weren't as good as Cotto's. Oscar's defense improved a lot when he got with Mayweather Sr. But I still think Cotto's defense was better. Oscar didn't land no were the amount of solid punches on Mosley as Cotto did, even in his second fight with mosely, which is testament to Cotto's great timing. And before anybody brings up Shane being old against Cotto, I disagree and that was evident when Shane outboxed the fast Collazo and he did even more impressively than Berto did. And Berto is a fast fighter who's much younger than Shane.

Another fight which you can compare is Cotto's fight with Clottey and Oscar's fight with Quartey. Quartey is a little more active than Clottey but he's not as complete fighter as Clottey from what I seen. And Clottey's defense is better than Quartey's. Oscar was getting outboxed against Quartey throuout the whole fight. I don't think Cotto would get hit with anyway near the amount of punches that Quartey hit Oscar with. Cotto out boxed Clottey in the later rounds of their fight and that was with one eye. Before he got cut, the fight was competitive but he was still getting the best of Clottey in those rounds before the cut and Clottey obviously is gonna land something because his defense is great but he couldn't hit cotto with anywhere near the amount of punches that he would of did to any other welterweight in the division.

Basically If you watch both Oscar(a Prime one) and Cotto fight, you can see that Cotto is more versatile than Oscar. Cotto isn't great at one thing but good at a little bit of everything. His best asset I think is his deceptive hand speed and great timing and I think that's what people underestimate him on, which is why I feel people always pick him to lose big fights against faster guys.

 

To you it might be a joke but to me it's not. So that's only in your eyes.

 

I'm not a big fan of either. Lets not fprget Oscar loss to pernell whitiker and qaurtey in his prime. And Sweet pea wasn't what he used to be when they fought.

 

VARGAS? LOL, He's never won any of his big fights. Cotto would beat him senseless. Trinidad ruined Vargas and Trinidad is one diminsional.

 

Tito is one Diminsional. Any good boxer who uses lateral movement can give him problems and I know you ain't gonna say Tito got more skills than Cotto. Cause ain't it even close. All Tito had was power.