Clottey vs Cotto: Is Clottey really that good or did the cut badly affect Cotto?

He's about as good as he looks IMO.
Good but the right guy with the right game-plan can beat him.
Pacquiao's on another level that's why he beat Clottey & Cotto impressively.

 

Clottey lost all his big fights, that tells you how good the guy really is.

 

No fighter is as good as the hype!

PS: vende patria!!!:-(

 

Not really.

 

Yeah yeah yeah, you can say that about anyone. Oh Mayweather didn't have to fight Margarito and Cotto and Pac or Williams or anyone he should have because he would have beat them anyway. Typical internet forum bs. God this place is depressing sometimes.

 

Can you imagine what they will say about floyd/pac once they loose...cant wait for that to come around:yep

 

He is too selective some nights he is great others he is total crap

his problem is he isnt aggressive enough or atleast doesnt sense his opponent is done and lets them off the hook

 

Good enough to beat a cut faced Cotto... But then again how good is a cut faced Cotto after Plaster boy ****ed his mind?

 

R1: Fighters start cautious, trading jabs, most punches blocked. Clottey comes in with a left, blocked and Cotto lands a nice counter midway thru the round. Cotto throws combos off his guard, Clottey counters but doesnt land. Cotto throws combos against his guard, only a few go through, but Cotto also blocking behind a tight guard. Cotto busier, Clottey lands a nice body shot and Cotto lands the knockdown at the end of the first round. Round was close before the knockdown, if you score a kd you automatically win the round, any talk of a 9-9 round is just ridiculous.
---Cotto round, clear- 10-8 Cotto
R2: Both fighters trade combos that dont land. Clottey lands a short right, Cotto responds with a nice body shot. Clottey starts to reach with the left hook, and they trade left hooks to the body. The first breakthrough is a counter left hook upstairs at the middle of the round, Cotto throws combos all partly blocked. Clottey lands a nice uppercut and throws a combo which is mostly blocked. Clottey lands a straight right at the 1 min mark. Cotto lands a left hook upstairs, another counter. Cotto flicks the jab and lands two with 30 secs to go, Cotto lands the jab well in the last 30 secs and Clottey misses a big right hand.
---Cotto round, close. 20-17 Cotto
R3: Fighters trade jabs, Cotto lands a short counter left hook. Cotto mixing up left hooks to the head and body, Clottey counters witha crisp left hook to the body. Clottey lands a 1-2, partlially blocked. Cotto jabbing more, but susceptivle to an uppercut which lands for Clottey, and he lands two. Cotto jabbing well, and mixing in the occasional left hook to the body. Clottey gets Cotto on the ropes but is completely ineffective. The fighters both miss hooks, Cotto suffers the cut and the round ends. Cotto simply outworks Clottey this round.
---Cotto round. 30-26 Cotto.
R4: Cotto comes out firing lands a jab and left hook to the body, then two more hooks to the body. Clottey looking for the upprcut but not landing, misses 3 then lands a nice uppercut. Cotto lands two nice hooks, and Clottey lands a nice right in the middle. Clottey coming aggressive and lands a big hook the body and another to the head. Cotto fights back with a hook to the body while wiping off the blood. Clottey lands a nice uppercut and Cotto lands a nice right. Cotto lands a 3 piece and Clottey maintains the high guard. Clottey dances away and smiles, gets backed into a corner and Cotto lands a hook to the body and Clottey holds. Cotto lands a nice combo and Clottey flails forward missing big. Very impressive round for Cotto.
---Cotto round, clear. 40-35 Cotto.
R5: Cotto lands two hooks to the head, and Clottey comes back with uppercuts. Cotto lands a counter right and Clottey lands two stiff jabs. Cotto with a solid hook to the body and Clottey lands a big 2-piece and then antoerh right to the head. Cotto is thrown off balance from a stiff Clottey jab, and Clottey lands a nother nice right hand. Clottey lands a right, gets turned aroiund by Cotto and tries to hold on the Cotto and he pushes Clottey off him. Clottey falls and puts on the dramatics to try to force a dq. The last 40 secs are on even terms.
---Clottey round, 49-45 Cotto.
R6: Cotto lands two body shots and Clottey counters with an uppercut. Cotto responds with a strong 1-2 and pushes Clottey n the ropes, landing a combo. Clottey holds and Cotto pushes him back to the ropes landing a series of blows. Clottey stays on the ropes for 2 minutes, barely throwing back except for one 4 piece thrown. Clottey lands a right hand and goes bakc to the ropes.
---Cotto round, clear. 59-54 Cotto.
R7: Clottey comes out and lands a short right hand. Cotto lands a nice uppercut. Cotto lands two nice hooks to the body. Clottey amps it up and lands a right uppercut, and later a right hand. Thry trade jabs, and clottey lands a nice right to which cotto responds with a hook. Clottey comes with a combo, landing ahook. Cotto tries to establish the jab, mostly missing, but hooking into it. Clottey comes strong and lands a big right, and then antother putting Cottos back n the ropes. Clottey gets Cotto to the ropes again and lands a nice uppercut. The first half was even, then Clottey established his right hand and uppercut, taking the round.
---Clottey round, clear. 68-64 Cotto.
R8: Clottey comes out establishing his jab. Cotto puts Clottey on the ropes and lands a combo, but Clottey flurries off and gets Cotto on the ropes but doesnt land much. In the middle of the ring, Clottey lands a nice uppercut and Cotto lands a body shot. Clottey lands two big right hands and an uppercut. Cotto tries to respond to all the rights with body shots, but its a right hand party for Clottey. Cotto flurries on Clottey while hes in the corner, but backs off.
---Clottey round, clear. 77-74 Cotto.
R9: Cotto begins the round backing up but landing jabs. Clottey lands a solid right while Cottos on the ropes, then Clottey lands a strong combo. Clottey teeing off on Cotto, lands a big uppercut. Cotto gets Clottey on the ropes and tees off for a few seconds before circling away. Cotto throws a big combo but all blocked and Clottey lands a right. Cotto lands a big left hook and Clottey responds with a hook of his own.
---Clottey round, 86-84 Cotto.
R10: Cotto comes out with a combo, mostly blocked. Cotto circles, lands a couple jabs, nothing coming from Clottey in the first minute. Clottey lands a straight right to Cottos body, Cotto circling and Clottey missing. Clottey lands a little lieft hook in the mid of the round. Cotto lands a jab, circles away, Clottey not throwing. Clottey throws a left hook, a two piece that all miss. Clottey lands a short left hook while Cottos on the ropesthry traide punches, then Clottey lands a short right, they both land big left hooks to end the round. Very close round.
---Clottey round, close. 95-94 Cotto
R11- Cotto lands a nice left hook, throws two body punches to start off the round. Clottey throws nothing in the first minute. Cotto lands a left uppercut off the ropes. They hold and Cotto circles away. Cotto and Clottey trade right hands, Clotteys first punch of the round at the 1:30 mark. Cotto flurries a four piece at Clotteys head. Cotto goes southpaw and lands to straight lefts,. Clottey lands a right, Cotto throws a five piece, then a 3 piece. Cotto lands a straight right to the body, then Clottey throws a combo while Cotto's on the ropes but they look all blocked.
---Cotto round. 105-103 Cotto.
R12: Cotto comes out with a combo, Clottey lands a right. Cotto lands a stiff jab off the ropes whcih throws Clottey off balance. Cotto circling, Clottey lands a jab, misses a right. Clottey slips on the canvas, throws a combo that misses. Cotto throws two little uppercuts, circles, while Clottey watches. Cotto throws a combo, and Clottey misses a counter. Cotto on the ropes, lands a short right, Clottey turns, Cotto hits him in the back of the head, and Clottey tries to draw a penalty. Clottey comes out with a 4 piece and Clottey being dramatic again looking for a low blow penalty. Cotto lands two nice left hooks, and circles, then lands a nother counter left hook. Clottey tries to unload and misses a comb. Cotto lands an uppercut, Clottey is just watching. Clottey lands a right hand with ten seconds to go.
---Cotto round. 115-112 Cotto.



1: Cotto (w/ kd)
2: Cotto
3: Cotto
4: Cotto
5: Clottey
6: Cotto
7: Clottey
8: Clottey
9: Clottey
10:Clottey
11:Cotto
12:Cotto

115-112 and I dont really think this was a difficult fight to score. The ONLY rounds that couldve went the other way than how I scored it were rounds 2 and 10, and I gave each fighter one of those rounds. Clottey doesnt jab enough and was simply not active enough to deal with the movement Cotto used in the last two rounds.

 

Cotto & Clottey are evenly matched I dont see what the problem is here. If you prefer Cotto as a fighter, thats great, his style is more aesthetically pleasing to the eye, but he isn't that MUCH better than Clottey, which some folks on here actually seem to believe. Neither guy is better than the other. It's a 50-50 fight every time.

 

Miguel Cotto is not a clean cut straight forward story...joshua clottey has never rised to the occasion and overcomed adversity...to say they are both in the exact same level is just BULL****....just because they didnt look good against eachother doesnt mean they are the same...you could say the same then for bradley/alexander,dlh/trinidad and many more...

Had clottey beaten pac we would be having a very different conversation now

 

Judah was one of Clottey's big fights and he won that one.

I was at the Cotto vs Clottey fight. It was a real good fight and Cotto won it.

 

Clottey has the ring IQ of a brick. He's a stupid fighter.

 

da ****s that got to do with the price of fish? :huh The point is whether a fighter earns respect and legacy from man-ing up and actually fighting the best opponents available in the ring, or whether its fine to just not bother on the grounds he 'would have beat them anyway', ergo Cotto has consistently fought and defeated a higher caliber of opponent than Mr Clottey.

 

good fighter, excellent defense

but isnt determined, he wouldve beat both Margarito & Cotto if he wouldve stepped it up in the champ rounds