How can Gomez make the Cotto fight competitive?

Watch Gomez' fight with Ben Tackie and there is your answer.

 

I came at you?

If anything, it was a compliment.

I said you must have the best job in the world.

I would love to post on ESB during work, but my company monitors internet usage.

Sorry you misunderstood, wasn't intending to set you off.

Anyone that knows me here, realizes I'm not the kind of person to initiate confrontation.

 

gomez just needs to be gomez, he can use that jab and stay out the pocket.throw straight punches up the center, uppercuts if he can throw them.

gomez feels he is the faster fighter, which i dout but if so you can use his speed, but hell if shane or zab could not use speed he cant.

gomez might be up a creek without a paddle, but anything can happen and has in this sport.

theres always a what if factor, but hell it goes like this... if if was a 5th we would all be drunk.

gomez should just go for broke and just ball to the walls gunz blazing

 

All he needs to do is go straight at Cotto's chin

 

Well I think Shane hits harder than him and he couldn't take Cotto down, even with all those straight right hands he landed.

 

how can Gomez make the cotto fight competitive? Well, i am asuming the link that BigBone posted is one with Gomez quotes on the press conference last wednesday. There Gomez says everything he needs to do to beat Cotto, but the thing is, even i could have come up with all that and say in a pationate way "thats how will defeat Miguel Cotto". Now, back to the real world, the hard thing for Gomez is to actually pull it off come fight night, after all, Cotto will be there tomorrow night to prove Gomez wrong.You can say all you want about Gomez being bigger, and i'll tell you this now, if Gomez fights Cotto like a big man, then it seems pretty obvious to me that Cotto will fight him as the shorter man, trying to slip punches, get between them to land his own. So, is there a plan,? Yes, and from both sides, the difference will be on who can impose their will better than the other, and so far, Cotto's will has been imposed on all of his fights, cant say the same about Gomez.

 

He is bigger, stronger, and he is coming to win.
He has been used to fighting middleweights.
He is a pretty good technically, real good chin and most important is that he has no fear.
Gomez is in super shape and will not fold like Zab Judah.
I think Cotto is in for a hell of a fight.

 

Landing one BIG lucky punch. That is the only way he can win it.
ITs sad to see him fight Cotto. I like both fighters alot and would have rather seen Gomez face off against another title holder. He would have better chance against the other WWs.

 

Yep that's pretty much it. He has a slight height advantage and may just elect to keep distance. However if he does that he's going to have to be mindful of his body. But Gomez is a real student of boxing and he absorbs alot of this stuff or at least from what I've understood of previous articles.

He's already said that if Cotto goes downstairs, he's going to go upstairs. If Cotto goes upstairs, he's going to go downstairs. He's already got this figured out and has already stressed the importance of throwing the uppercut. So Cotto is in for a fight. Gomez no doubt studied him like a book.

 

run, jab, jab, clinch, repeat for 12 rounds. if he stands and trades, he'll need a kidney transplant and a neckbrace.

 

bring a gun.

Still take Cotto by Ko though, just in the later rounds... :smoke

 

defense... anticipation...

 

Really?

What can you say now that Gomez was used at Cotto's live punching bag in front of the international audience?

:rofl :hey

 

:rofl

:good

 

This was never going to be more competetive than Calzaghe - Manfredo.

For some reason though Cotto gets credited for his less ruthless mismatched win.