if cotto fought quintana again....

I agree, Quintana's no joke. I had never seen CQ before the Cotto fight but I remeber getting real worried after the first round when i saw him. I remember he was landing bombs at will and moving great and I was thinking "man how is Cotto going to beat this guy?" However, The wrecking machine that Cotto is took over and it was all good. But I had a lot of respect for his abilities after that and was not at all suprised when he beat Paul Williams.
Right now I'd put Quintana at 5th in the division and would favour him to beat every guy under him.

These guys would be (in no particular order):

Paul Williams
Kermit Cintron
Luis Collazo
Joshua Clottey
Andre Berto
Zab Judah

But to answer the original question: Cotto is a better fighter then he was when he fought Quintana. It was his first fight in the division. He has adjusted to the wieght and fought some world class guys who have forced him to up his game. I personally think a rematch with quintana would look more like Gomez Cotto then Cotto Quintana I.

 

I saw the Julio fight, and I saw the Williams fight.

Julio was a pretender (still is) and Williams just didn't show up.

I don't get the hype on Quintana, a solid guy, sure.. but nothing special.

 

Show me where I said that. I said Williams couldn't adapt, and that's a fact. It also appeared he just wasn't into the fight, not sure whether that was his lack of being able to adapt, or something else, but that was not the Williams we saw against Margorito.

I don't think Williams was overrated really, he's still a good boxer, and honestly I thought he'd handle Quintana better, but that was a strange version of Williams.

Maybe Quintana did that too him, but like Ambition_Def said, it was sloppy, and Quintana didn't impress me with anything but his determination and heart in that fight.

 

A KO at rounds 4-7 or a UD.

 

If Quintana is very conservative and tries to survive, the fight could end with a UD for Cotto. But probably it would be a KO between rounds 4-7, imo.

 

People say Cotto destroyed Quintana the first time...this isn't true.

It was an even fight but Cotto killed him with that body shot. But before that, it was a great, competitive fight with a lot of skill from both guys.

 

Valid question.

The second fight will show us the truth about Williams. It will prove whether Quintana did that to Williams, or if Williams did that to Williams.

He didn't adapt, this much is true, I'm also of the opinion that the "real" Paul Williams didn't show up. It's not like what Carlos did was some display of major skill, it was rough and tumble, toss overhand lefts and work the body. Williams for whatever reason didn't choose to fight his normal fight, his punch output proves this.