Compare and Contrast: De La Hoya and Cotto

Odd question to me, as I never thought about them as being similar in any way. ???

 

Well no, they don't. But I get the lefties issue at least. Not much to go on. An awful lot of fighters have the same belts in common.

 

:huh Uhhh, one is a lot better than the other. Oscar better than Cotto that is. That's the only comparison I can give you between the two.

 

They both speak Spanish also... I think...

 

They are both very similar in my opinion. They both rely on the jab and left hook, although oscar had a better right hand imo. They both try and fail with the shoulder roll. They both look very similar when they fight backwards, both do tend to square up and do that little latin bounce when they're outside of harms way, and then reset. This may be a bit of a stretch, but Cotto in the first 5 rounds of the Margorito fight reminded me of Oscar in the first half of the Trinidad fight.

 

They're both probably about the same percentage of water.

 

Oscar is a much, much better stick-and-move boxer than Cotto is. :deal

I'll put it to you this way.. Oscar was outboxing the ears off Tito Trinidad. Cotto on the other hand, wouldn't make it past the middle rounds versus a prime Tito.

 

You're right, and thats also probably the only similarity these two bums have with SUGAR Nicolai Valuev!

 

Pac beat the **** out of the two.

 

You get the mocking replies because you picked a **** comparison of fighters. You pick ****, you get **** in return.

 

Yeah, that too.

 

That may be so, but I think it stems from more reasons than just Oscar being the superior boxer. It has more to do with Oscar having by far the better chin. Also, Oscar being 5'10.5" and having good reach, while Cotto being about 3 inches shorter and having stubby arms. It's rather hard to outbox someone as tall as Trinidad being that short.