Mayorga: "I signed a contract to fight Cotto..."

I see your point Ech, but as far as Cotto not being a winner.

Cotto has fought 37 times as a pro fighter. Having squared off against the likes of

Shane Mosley
Ricardo Torres
Antonio Margarito
Manny Pac
Zab Judah
Joshua Clottey
Carlos Quintana
Chop Chop Corley
Randail Bailey

And has a career spanning three weight divisions.

He has only lost 2 fights in his entire career thus far. One has a handwrap issue hanging over it, (while I dont put much stock into that personally) and the other is against the greatest fighter arguably of our generation.

Think its a little much to say Cotto is not a winner.

IMO.

 

Ya Uli, I did use the wrong wording, I said our generation and I should have said my generation. I dont know how old everyone else is. But for my generation (25 years old), he is the greatest fighter, imo. Who would you place higher man out of fighters relivent to that age bracket?

But ya, I should have said era. Generation is too vague and varries from person to person depending on age.

However, as to the point.

I agree with you. I dont ever see Cotto beating another REAL champion again. I dont ever see him beating another top tier fighter. Ive got no problem with that opinion.

My problem was classifieing Cotto as 'that doesnt make him a winner'. Which is what my entire post was addressing. :huh

As for Mayorga,
yes he pulled it off against a completely, completely shot vargas, a vargas so shot that honestly.... what was transpiring in the ring was borderline sad. And in that fight, Mayorga took his fair share as well, and showed why he himself is no longer a top shelf fighter eather.

That fight, was three years ago. The Mosley fight, is over two years ago.

The man has since went on to fight one time in the two year span he will have between the Mosley KO loss, to fighting Cotto.

Does Mayorga have 'a shot', of course he does. Prime for prime I would have Mayorga stopping Cotto mid rounds. And this will have hangover effects to where yes, Mayorga 'can' give Cotto fits in spurts. However, this fight sure isnt 50/50 in my eyes, and to suggest so I think is underrating Cotto, and overrating the version of Mayorga we will be seeing in 2011.

Not saying I am not going to watch however, of course I will be watching. I am not dissing this fight at all, Cotto fights the who's who of boxing and after this fight will probably be matched up in a fight he is the underdog in. And it is two of my fav fighters of all time. I say this fight sucks because, I dont want to see eather guy lose at this stage, and obviously in this scenario, one of them has to lose. It also sucks because I dont want to see all the abuse Cotto will take pre fight lol.

As for the fight itself, if Mayorga can come out with some sort of 'not as good as I once was, but as good once as I ever was' type beginning rounds, almost like he had in some rounds against Mosley, this fight will be very interesting early on.

However, I count on Mayorga being too old, too worn, too slow at this stage (Mayorgas effectiveness against top opponents relied heavily on his underrated quickness) and hes no longer this unpredictable windmill. He falls into throwing the same sloppy punches over and over and over. I expect Cotto to be able to outbox him, and when he does get hurt, weather the storm, come back the next round and continue to outbox him.

While it wont surprise me if Cotto is troubled early on by Mayorga, as this fight is still held in the shadow of the fact I think Mayorga is one of Cottos biggest nightmares if this was 4 years ago. That carries over today for me to Mayorga still giving Cotto some fustrations. But it WILL surprise me of Mayorga is able to actually beat Cotto. I confidnetly make Cotto the heavy fav in this fight, to me, having this fight as 50/50 just because Mayorga 'could hurt' Cotto isnt doing the matchup justice at this stage.

Again, this fight sucks for me. Eather way one of my fav fighters is going to lose, and I am thinking very heavily and comfortably, that it will be Mayorga. Which I suppose is for the best at this point anyways. Would like to see Cotto regain some momentum and go on to some better fights.

That is my take on this fight. However, my initial post was simply the point of Cotto not being a winner.

 

:good

And you're right, if Miguel doesnt fight smart, this fight gets all the more dangerous for him, that is for sure.