It worked well. But towards the end, when Pac had lost respect for Cotto, Cotto was landing it because Pac simply didn't care to avoid it (when he was chasing Cotto around the ring).
Cotto fought great until the second knockdown by standing his ground and using the jab. It was when he didnt stay busy with it and allowed pac to lead with combinations that things fell apart. Cotto has a superb jab but he was catching Pac with it quite easily.
That's not what I saw. When Cotto stood his ground and jabbed, he ate Pac's straight left and later on, the right hook over the top of the jab, while not hitting Pac cleanly or at all. He actually had it working the best when he was moving backwards and jabbing, thus Pac simply played the waiting game while moving forward with a high guard.
Cotto abandonded it and tried to jump on Pac. In the same round he got knocked down look how close he was to Pac swinging punches. Cotto got too excited and overconfident. When dudes fight Pac they convince themselves that he is a smaller guy and try to bully him without being cautious. Cotto A la Hatton just did some dumb ****.
It just took pac a round or 2 to get his distance against Cotto, once he found it there was no jab in the world that was gonna stop him.
Excellent thread. Cotto's jab gave Pacquiao some problems until Manny was timing it with left's like some have said earlier. Cotto might have the best jab at welterweight when he is on. Even better than Floyd's. His left to the body is killer as well. Mayweather is not gonna be Pacquiao with his jab and left hook alone.
It was giving him trouble for a while and then Cotto got knocked down twice and was more scared to throw and never really established it again since he was backpedaling.
A little trouble, but not much after Pac got the timing down. The problem is, Cotto had nothing else to threaten Pac with. If he had a good right hand as well he could at least feint with the jab and then follow up with the right while Pac was trying to slip inside the jab to counter. But without a good right hand there was nothing to prevent Pac from moving to the left of Cotto's jab and popping him with a straight left. Not that it would have made a world of difference anyway, the speed difference was just to great, but he could have at least set some traps for Pac then, and hoped to get lucky. I think Cotto would be a better fighter if he had stayed southpaw and kept his dominant hand back.