I'm going to say it..Cotto has always been overrated!

Yep.

 

:think

 

Agree..

 

let's give him a benefit of a doubt... he did beat shane. Let's see how he does in his next fight.

 

Who isnt overrated these days? It seems everyone is overrated in someones eyes.

 

i don't think cotto is as overrated as most of the other guys at the top 5 p4p list

 

Where do you rate Pavlik in relation to Cotto?

 

Anyone saying he was better than Tito is delusional. Tito is on another level to Cotto completely and that should be obvious to anyone even before last nights fight.

You will always get nut huggers who over hype fighters and haters who clearly underrate fighters. Both make wild claims with no facts or logical argument to back up their random statements.

Fact is there has always been doubt by many fans on how good Cotto really is and we shouldn't have are perspectives altered by the perceptions of a few fanboys.

Cotto last night went up in my estimation he proved to be a much more skillful boxer than I had previously given him credit for. I always thought he was a bit 1 dimensional but he showed he could box as well as walk opponents down.

 

Who else has he beaten? It would seem your criteria for rating fighters is fairly weak & is probably based around your preferences as opposed to any kind of objective rational. Weren't you the one telling me to go to sleep earlier? I suggest you stop posting for a while & come back when you have some sensible arguments as opposed to the rantings of an angst filled teen.

 

Not overrated imo. Beat Mosley in non-controversial fashion and just got beat by the better man tonight. my opinion.

 

Cotto is a good fighter, but his image and identity as the heir apparent to the Puerto Rican throne could make anyone starstruck and swept up in the hype. When you actually weigh the content of his performances, and his actual tools and technique against the reputation he developed, of course he was overrated. Perhaps one of the most overrated fighters in recent history. Who else could get that much credit for beating a completely shopworn Mosley who fought on equal terms with super shot Vargas, and a lifeless Judah who had been spanked by Baldomir just prior? Nobody?

Cotto benefitted tremendously from all the dissenters out there that said he would lose this fight, and lose that fight, after the Torres affair. This somehow turned Cotto into a very strange enigma, which was based primarily on people's lowered expectations, resulting in his "surprising" rise to prominence against fighters who were seemingly far better than he was. Example: 'Cotto was supposed to lose to Quintana, but then he destroyed him.' Nobody was really using their heads or thinking straight. There were different rules and standards for Cotto for some reason. Rules and standards that were different for anyone else.