Felix Tito Trinidad "It'll be difficult for Cotto to beat Mayweather but possible"

Thanks for posting, I'll translate the rest of the questions & answers relevant to Cotto, if you don't mind.

 

He's been working on speed and Tito Trinidad is the last to talk about what a fighter needs to work on, when he never corrected any of the fundamental mishaps he's had in his career. Basically he's stayed the same and never improved in those areas.

 

Let’s talk boxing; Miguel Cotto’s fight is coming up, how can Cotto counter Mayweather’s speed?

It’s going to be a very good fight, and important for both. It’s a very, very difficult fight for Miguel Cotto. It’s a difficult fight because of the speed of Mayweather. What he should do is what he should have been doing for a little while now, to find as much speed as possible to counteract that movement of the torso of Mayweather; with all of that, if he succeeds in augmenting his speed, if he gets it perfect, that’s how he can counteract Mayweather. If he can’t reach that speed, he should body to body with Mayweather, round after round, right there in close to Mayweather, like we Puerto Ricans know how to do, put all our heart into it and stay body to body with Mayweather. Try to find a good punch and soften him bit by bit.

How do you see Cotto at 154? Does he look solid to you? Is there room for improvement? How is he at that weight?

Well Cotto made himself champion there. It was against a boxer who wasn’t of the highest quality. We know Yuri Foreman wasn’t a solid champion, you now know that he was a little hurt in his knees, but he made himself champion, then he fought Mayorga who came out from a long retirement, but as a Puerto Rican Champion, I wish Cotto the best of success, he has had very good fights, some not so good, but he is champion and it’s time he moves forward.

Do you think that Cotto’s Cuban trainer has helped him better his physical conditioning?

He’s helped him, everyone who knows boxing knows that the Cuban, the Cuban trainer that has Cotto training in a different manner, has greatly helped his conditioning.

Finally, your prediction for the fight. What’s going to happen?

Well, this fight I think is going to be a very good fight in the early rounds. If Cotto’s left with no stamina, if Cotto’s conditioning isn’t of the best, it’s going to be very difficult continuing on, because the other has the conditioning, the intelligence, the ability to not take many shots, and is very elusive. Well, we have to go for our own, but the other is number 1.

Can he win, yes or no?

Cotto can beat him, I’m sure of it, but it is not easy.

 

He was always a fundamentally sound boxer, and improved at the end of his career, but not enough before his retirement. He can still give useful insight on other fighters.

 

Well if he did than he wouldn't of let Winky Wright dominate him over 12 rounds, he didn't have anybody in the corner to give him some techincal insight when things were going bad for him in that fight. So I'd have to disagree with you on this one bogotazo for the first time.

 

Well there's a difference between improving certain elements of your style and going under major reconstruction, or having a good corner advise you against a superior technician above your best weight class.

Anytime! I'm always down to translate stuff.

 

BTW, who are you picking for this fight? Because it seems to me you feel Cotto can win but do you think he's going to or do you think it's a 50/50 fight?

 

Is this a joke? Cotto has no chance, leave it at that.

 

Mayweather-Cotto = Hopkins-Trinidad

 

shut the **** up, Tito is by no means being condescending. Hes being real and showing support to his countryman.

 

That's Floyd-emmanuel.

 

I actually picked Trinidad to beat Hopkins at the time and picked him to beat Wright but i'm just telling the facts. Another fact is Cotto is a far better complete fighter than Trinidad will ever be, with a better boxing IQ. Trinidad was a better puncher but he was one Dimensional.

 

If it was Juanma vs. Mayweather.. Tito would pick Juanma by KO.. atsch He always does that.... him along with many PR fans don't like Cotto because he doesn't talk crap.... but look where Juanma's mouth got him...

Plus Cotto has outsold him in terms of PPV buys, Sell outs at MSG and more... He is always picking against Cotto.. i don't get it..