Floyd fighting going backwards vs Cotto fighting going backwards??

I'm curious about something fellas. When Floyd fights, his opponent is usually the aggressor, and floyd is the counter puncher. Floyd has fought quite a few times going backwards and people appreciate it b/c that's what they are use to. That's cool with me too. I see no problems with it. The few times that Floyd is the aggressor, people love that even more. I'm cool with that too.

Cotto for most of his career has been known to be the aggressive pressure fighter. He hasnt had to fight off his back foot on many occassions except for N'dou, Abdullaev, and Mosley. Most people never saw him fight N'dou and Abdullaev. Now, here is my problem. I don't understand the double standard here. Why do people automatically believe that just b/c Cotto is not pressuring, he is losing the fight. When he fought Mosley, he knew he couldnt KO Mosley, so he decided to just counter the **** out of him, which he thoroughly did. just b/c mosley was the aggressor doesnt mean he was being effective.

Anyone who has seen the N'dou and Abdullaev fight will have already known this side of Cotto. He isnt some one-dimensional fighter who goes for the KO every time. Against those 2, he fought going backwards nearly the entire fight.

The same people who Floyd beat DLH b/c he was countering DLH and beating him to the punch all night are the same people saying that Mosley beat Cotto b/c Cotto was going backwards most of the fight.

it doesnt make sense. Cotto pretty much did to Mosley what Floyd did to DLH, which is to counter him and outbox him. People were just so shocked that Cotto was going backwards that they assumed he was struggling.

Anyways, just had to bring that up b/c so many Floyd lovers/cotto haters keep trying to argue that he barely beat Mosley, which in my opinion was a more convincing victory that what Floyd had over DLH.

 

Cotto has certainly improved. one thing i will say however is that it's not so much that Cotto has been doing newly learned things in the ring. I think it's that he has had opponents to just bring it back out of him. If you have see cotto in his earlier years, he was very similar to how he is now. It's just that people really didnt know about Cotto until the Sosa fight.

by that time, he had started making a name for being a pure pressure boxer/pucher. Where in reality, he has always had great boxing ability.

But yeah, haters want to look at him going backwards as some sign of weakness. They dont want to admit that he just showed them a new/rekindled facet to his fight game.

it scares the **** out of them.

 

I think Cotto knows who he can and cant be aggressive with. Mosley has always been so strong. it would be foolish to pressure him for an entire fight when you know what time of power he possesses. not only that, but if you know he has a concrete chin, why be stupid when you fight him.

Cotto knew this, so he fought wisely.

 

EXACTLY!!:good

 

that sounds about right. I remember on my card, I had it scored 7-4 with one round even.

 

i can appreciate the unbiased fight fan.

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