Not sure but Cotto doesnt seem to throw body punches/hooks like he used to...

Last night i told my friend who mosley is fighting next (he likes mosley) hes a very casual boxing fan, but starting to dig the sport more then he ever has... and i told him clottey, i told him him and cotto just fought a very very close fight, he asked if we could watch it, i told him ya we can watch it but were going to score it round by round,
so basically we took like 50 minutes watching that fight lol... we watched some rounds over just for the hell of it (i think the 10th was one) because some rounds it seemed totally dependant on what your looking for as to who you scored it for, some rounds were won big....

anyways, him and i differed on 1 round, cant remember which one.... but my friend came away liking clottey somewhat.
He had the fight at 6 rounds a piece, i have it 7-5 for Cotto.


anyways.... that being said, the past three weeks or so ive been showing my brother a lot of fights, a few being Cotto-Pinto, Cotto-Bailey, Cotto-Torres.... trying to get him into boxing, and since those fights were so fresh in my mind, watching the clottey fight, i noticed miguel throws more of an arm punch these days, he used to turn it over and totally rotate on his body punches, against clottey its almost like he was throwing more of an arm punch then putting his full body into it.

anyone notice that, or not at all?

Or you think thats just something he had to do against Clottey because hes now fighting bigger guys and doesnt want to stay in there to commit to the body? or is it that hes losing his technique a bit by not training for it like he should? something else?

or is it nothing at all?

but for real you should go watch the bailey fight, and some other younger fights and he would chop you in half to the body, not just go there more often, im not just talking about that, but the actual way he threw punches was differant in a way.

 

you could be (and i hope in a way) your right.... but not sure why he would be doing it because of clotteys d, in fact the way clottey holds his guard cotto can get in a few good bodyshots on his sides as he usually is covering his face.

Plus Bailey hits harder then clottey with that right hand so it cant be that he doesnt want to get hit, as he opened up a can on bailey, pivoting in the pocket so to speak with his punches and getting full leverage, and not so much against clottey.

i hope to see a return to form against pac....




then again, part of me thinks im just nitpicking...

 

well have you seen the bailey fight? the pinto fight?

would you say that he puts the same leverage onto his body shots that he did back then?



like i said, maybe im just seeing things... but to me hes not turning it over like he used to.

its not a huge deal... but it is just something i noticed.






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to the others who have responded to this thread... appreciate it, and i think you guys are probably right, its his level of competition, hes probably trying to get out of the 'pocket' so to speak without leaving himself open as much as he did at 140. :good