Cotto Is A "Warrior," Yeah? How So?

If a fighter is considered a chicken for not fighting the guys you want him to fight, that would insinuate that fighting top fighters should be expected. If that's true, then why should fighters who fight top fighters be praised? Isn't that what they're supposed to do?

 

Always, dudes been on Cotto's jock since ive been on here. Clearly Cotto cares about this loser and the bull**** he spews.

 

I still have the utmost respect for Cotto. He's climbed into the ring with all that's challenged him and has always given you the impression he wants to fight the best.

 

You are in here going against the grain for the sake of it, and exaggerating and oversimplifying things just so you can make broad stupid remarks and stand out. Cotto has been hurt in a ton of fights, and then proceeded to beat his opponents into submission. Theres a difference between adversity and being beaten senseless, when he was facing adversity early in the fight he fired up and let his hands go, responding when he got tagged badly (arguably a stupid idea tactically, but showing his gutsy intentions nonetheless).

Against Mosley he copped some big shots in the 10th and then hammered Mosley in the 11th, fighting smartly off the back foot and standing his ground when need be and earning Mosley's respect (it got to the point where late in the round Mosley didn't really want to throw punches cause he knew he would get tagged). He knew he had it in the bag in the 12th and cruised to victory.

Cotto is no Arturo Gatti, he doesn't have the punch resistance to do it, but he gives his all and to say that every time he has faced adversity he has ran is stereotyping his more exposed performances. Its just as bad (in fact worse, considering the classy nature of Cotto) as making Cotto out to be some sort of Jake Lamotta character.

 

You're right, Cotto is a warrior. From now on, we should applaud fighters for not quitting. It doesn't matter if they retreat when they're behind, as long as they don't no mas it, they are warriors. No fighter should ever be labeled as a coward because they run. As Cotto has shown us, running does not preclude you from being a warrior. You don't even need to try until the final bell to win to be a warrior. All you need to do is not quit.

 

Ok so, how does that make him a warrior? If Cotto wants to run because he feels he has the fight in the bag, that's understandable(even though Oscar got crucified for doing it). However, I asked you to name me some fights where he didn't resort to running/fouling in the face of adversity. You named one fight and even admitted that Cotto started backpedling when Mosley started to tag him. I have no problem with that given that he was at least ahead, but that's not the mentality of a warrior.

 

Cotto didn't foul against Margarito, Torres when he was in trouble in those fights and he didn't fight dirty against Mosley so please stop with the exaggerations of Cotto fighting dirty when in trouble.

 

I don't think Cotto is a warrior in the typical boxing sense of the word. But by grossly oversimplifying things and broadly throwing the term run around you are just as bad as the people over exaggerating his status as a warrior, worse because your doing it to slur his name and stand out. He was badly hurt in a number of fights at 140 pounds (Corley and Torres off the top of my head) and went on to stop his opponents.

Go watch round 10 and 11 of the Mosley fight and tell me he was running in the face of adversity. Mosley hit him with some massive shots and he kept throwing back, earning his respect (note moving backwards at times is not "running").

The Oscar reference has no merit really, Oscar ran for several rounds blatantly despite being completely dominant (and almost everyone agrees that he clearly won still). It has no relevance to this discussion.

This is all i will say on it, as you clearly don't and will never agree.

Some interesting old thoughts on that matchup San Rafael, i think the fight would surprise a lot of people. Mayweather wins every time but i think it would be a very competitive fight, i think even a few of Floyd's big fans (might have been Eze who was adamant about it) think that Cotto is potentially the hardest matchup for Mayweather. At least before this Pacquiao beatdown occurred of course. If you can't rattle Cotto and question his punch resistance he is going to give you a very tricky time.

 

@ San Rafael

I agree with you that Cotto is not a ''true to life" warrior like say his fellow countryman Tito Trinidad but he should still be commended overall, Cotto simply doesn't have the ability to pick off punches in close corners like James Toney for example. But at his best Cotto is still one of boxing best offensive fighters but his punches don't seem as crisp and fluid as they did a year or two ago.

 

But andyZOR did make a great point that Cotto does that back peddling thing even when he is clearly winning a fight, it just seems to be something he does out of instinct sometimes.