Freddy Roach: Cotto is in decline

very good points....well put! :deal

 

Good point.

 

Cotto has very good skills and so does Pacman but what separates the 2 of them are mainly these 2 things :

1- Pacquiao is faster with his punches
2- Pacquiao doesn't need to set his feet like Cotto in order to through effective punches, which means that he gets them off from constantly different and odd angles, which makes it quite hard to adapt to.

Pacquiao has consistently improved point #2 over the last 2 years I would say and that's what makes him a special fighter today.

Cotto has great combos, can box well and counter effectively when needed but he doesn't have the defensive skills to counter point #2 from Pacman, as far as I'm concerned !

 

hopefully cotto lives up to those, it's been a while pacquiao have had a worthy opponent with those skills..

a classic fight in the making..:deal

 

I think Manny's speed is grossely overrated .Where were those lightning fast pucnhes against JMM ?Those fights were more tactical ..Are Manny's fans thinking he will just strafe Cotto like he did Oscar or Hatton ?


This is going to be a boxing clinic by Cotto watch !

 

I do think that Manny's speed is vastly overrated.

Vs a weightdrained DLH, vs Hatton and David Diaz even Yori Boy Campas would look like Sugar Ray Leonard.

Pac is quick, especially with his left, but he is no Sugar, that's for sure.

However, I don't think Cotto can absorb what Pac can dish out. I have been on record in the past saying that Cotto's chin is suspect,a nd his ability to endure punishment is too.

 

I really don't believe Cotto is on the decline. DLH was obvious although I still thought he would KO pac. Roach needs to shut up.

 

... yet, you're picking Cotto to win?

:huh

 

so Cotto is shot? Why, because he has taken only the toughest fights against the toughest fighters that no one wants to fight? Lets see any other fighter face Judah, Mosley, Margarito, and Clottey and look pretty
doing it. Roach is a trainer, and a very good one, but he has no business
calling a fighter SHOT until they have proven so.
The reason Cotto does not look as impressive as he used to is because he is fighting big legit, elite, welters who can easily be Jr. middles in his last fights. Basically, Cotto has raised the bar, so obviously he will not look
overwhelming like he used to. He fights the best, We should not help kill the sport by calling the superstars of boxing SHOT. There is the reality of
being a SHOT fighter, like DE la Hoya was, but Cotto does not deserve to be labeled one. His last fight was against a rock solid fighter, and went 12 rounds with basically one eye the whole fight. Cotto did not fold, so give him his Props, and give Pac his props if he beats him...

 

I ****ing told you this is why he picked Cotto, just like he picked Hatton and Oscar. If Roach didn't think Cotto was damaged goods, he never would have let Pac fight him!!

 

I really hope Roach's cherry picking for Pac comes back to bite him in the ass and Cotto pummels Pac into a bloody mess, and humiliates him like Morales did. It is very possible!