Evangelista Cotto: "Cotto should stop Pacquiao before the 8th".

I agree with that, the rest...

 

Ditto!! If your game plan is based on Pacman Version 1.0 from 10 years ago, youre going to run into problems. That was a whole different weight division, much lower, and before Pac came into his own as a complete championship fighter. Just like people thinking that if Floyd did what he did to JMM, then he would destroy Pac because Pac and JMM had very competative fights. He could probably beat Pac, but not based on that reasoning. The JMM that Floyd fought at 144 would be taken out by this current Pacman at this weight. He is a different fighter, at a different time, at a different weight, after many more championship experiences. Thinking about a body shot that KO'd him back in the day and using that as your gameplan is completely amateur and shows just how little the Cotto camp has as far as a strategy to deal with Pacman.

 

ODH and Hatton camps both relied on the idea that as a bigger/stronger puncher, Pacman could not hang around. Both were very wrong. People fighting Pac now need to accept that he can compete with the best at this weight and need to focus on a strategy rather then rely on the assumption that the size and power will be enough to beat the little tornado Pacman. Epecially in referring to a KO from years ago and using that as part of the strategy...sounds like pathetic grasping for any little thing since there seems to be no real strategy except for Cotto to be Cotto, and hopefully thats good enough to beat Pac.

 

Evangelista was treated in the emergency room for cervical trauma, chest pains, damage to the ribs, and a broken nose. In a lawsuit, Evangilista states that he was brutally attacked by Miguel. Laugh all you want, but Miguel worked over his Uncle. Evangilista was beat up pretty badly.

 

He had to have been proud about how greatly he was injured in some sick way, since he trained Cotto to do all of that and got to experience his great teachings first hand