How Surprised Will You Be If Mayweather 'Pressures' and Cotto Tries to Stick-n-Move?

Very true. We should be careful not to confuse that with 'Cotto being forced on his bike'. Because a similar thing was being done after the Ortiz fight. People were claiming Floyd had Ortiz backing up and hurt, when in fact it was just Ortiz attempting to box and move.

 

I tend to agree with this scenario, cotto seems to switch gears for different reasons but he and Floyd both have the ability to box and pressure fighters. This fight can end up becoming a chess match and I pretty sure Floyd would win that but not without cotto having his moments.

 

See this is what I'm talking about a fair, logical outlook on the fight instead of the mindless blabber we get from others

 

Exactly.

 

It would be a stupid game plan for Mayweather to utilize an aggressive approach.

Mayweather needs to keep the fight in the middle of the ring, and consistently change directions.

He needs to slow the pace, and if Cotto fails to engage him, Mayweather should be content to winning a slow, boring, decision.

 

Even when he shadow box, he still stand flat on his feet with little to no movement at all. He just need the right opponent who can force him to move when he doesn't want to, and I'm not sure Cotto is capable of applying the kind of pressure to force Floyd to use more movement. As long as his opponents aren't capable of taking advantage of him standing flat-footed, he'll continue to do it. Heck, even Hopkins has utilized more lateral movement at the age of 47 years old than Floyd has in his last two fights(Ortiz and Mosley).

 

I would be extremely surprised. That isn't the right gameplan for Floyd in this fight IMO.

 

The moment Floyd starts getting popped on the nose by Cotto's one/two counters & shows the glove to the roaring crowd floyd will slip right back into his defensive countering shell. As LEON said this will show us if floyd can cut down the ring effectively enough too get Cotto to engage but i see Cotto coming out on top in these exchanges & slipping away.

This fight for me is going to be decided by Cotto's stamina, this is most definetly a fight for Cotto to win just on punch volume alone, i'd rate his chances better at 147 rather than at the 154 as he's a tad slower now on his feet, but of course thats why we all know floyd picked him.

Can't see Floyd changing his safety 1st stratergy or Cotto being dumb enough to stand in front of Floyd & whack away as he did against Pac. Mid range side 2 side, slip & slide, in & out launching clusters, Cotto is going to look good early on & he'll def be up on the cards after 6 rounds proberbly 4-2 but it's all what happens after that & history dictates that Cotto snoozes off & floyd steps it up..we shall see:smoke

 

This is an excellent point people often overlook.