No he was beaten by a fighter who was not in my p4p rankings and so is no longer p4p in my opinion! people are basing there decision on popularity.
He's a difficult one to rank, i think he is still one of the top 3 or4 most talented fighters He is probably the most complete active fighter as well, in the 1st 6 rounds against tony he was great, fantastic jab, handspeed and accuracy with his punches, lovely body attacks and putting his combos together However he was beat well by margarito however i really couldn't see anyone else beating him around 47, margo chin and workrate are unreal and no other welterweight i believe would have beat the cotto margo faced. Tony was just a terrible stylistic match up Taking all into account it would have cotto about 9 i think, he can come back and go a lot higher, he has the talent to
Because 75% of the users on ESB are latinos. Has nothing to do with anything else. Kessler was ranked about 10 before meeting Calzaghe. Cotto was ranked about #6 before meeting Margarito. Kessler in these latinos eyes should be dropped to #14 or so while Cotto should (it seems) remains unscratched from loosing to someone who is far from top 10 and probably not top 20. How does that make sense that losing a closeish fight abroad to the p4p no. 2 should lower a fighters ranking while losing to a mucher lower ranked brawler does nothing? Only reason is: Kessler is not latino nor American. Cotto could probably loose the next 10 fights in a row and these guys will close their eyes and still come up with all kinds of excuses as to why he should still be no 5 p4p.
i feel in a few years we all here will be saying cotto should have stayed at 140 (ie. judah) i can't see cotto beating williams, clottey, margo, cintron etc. just based on size.
Wrong... it has to do with the fact that you and many others believe in that ****. Why do you care about the P4P ranking if in reality means nothing?