Yuri also had the brace on in his best performances against Daniel Santos and James Moore. He said the original injury happened when he was 15 and that he wore the brace from time to time to avoid re-aggravating it. I recall him stating in a post-fight interview that the knee was fine until he slipped in the 7th round. If Cotto has zero power at 154, then how much power do you think his brother Jose had when he jumped up two divisions and had Canelo wobbling all over the place? I think it's obvious, Cotto isn't the puncher at 154 that he was at 140, or even 147. But to suggest he has zero power at junior middleweight is bull****.
this is gonna be a damn good fight either way . . . today i say canelo but ask me tomorrow and it will probably flip. I am just excited about the prospect of the fight happening!
how about jose cotto and canelo fight now? u fools, canelo has improved big time since that fight. canelo beats both cottos on same night and thats not saying much as both cottos are washed up!!!
yuri had to have knee surgery after the cotto fight where he tore his meniscus http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/news/story?id=5262140 the point i was agreeing with was that at 154 foreman was cottos best win and the tko had nothing to do with miguel and everything to do with a pre-existing injury
All I know is Cotto will need a KO to win this. PBF should have won 10 rnds if not a shut out against Canello but he judges didn't see it that way.
The article you posted pretty much supports what I said in my initial post. As I previously stated, Yuri initially injured the knee when he was 15 years old and the injury resurfaced in round seven of his fight with Cotto. He did not go in to that fight with torn ligaments in his knee like you claimed in your previous post. Which means, when Yuri was getting outclassed in rounds one through six, he wasn't hampered by injury. Him losing those rounds had everything to do with Cotto. That's not to suggest that the original injury didn't make Yuri more susceptible to being injured again, I'm sure it did. However, I seen nothing in those first six rounds to suggest a different outcome would have been in the cards, if Yuri's knee held up for the duration of the fight. And yeah you can argue Foreman was Cotto's best win at the weight, but Cotto has only had 6 fights in that division. Yet, his resume is at least comparable to Canelo's, who's had at least twice as many fights in that weight class. Both of them have faced blown up and sometimes over the hill welters, (Canelo - Mosley, Baldomir, Cintron / Cotto - Mayorga, Margarito, Rodriguez). They both fought Austin Trout, in which I felt were both close fights. Though I do think both fights had clear cut winners (Canelo over Trout, Trout over Cotto). Then they both lost to Mayweather, with Cotto giving Mayweather a tougher fight. Canelo may have an edge here since he beat Trout and Cotto lost to him, but it isn't a colossal one, by any means.