Is Cotto wise to Fight at 160 Without a Tune Up?

People say Floyd is old, but Martinez even older at 39.

With injuries and knee problems, he's slowing down. Even if Martinez starts out well, his legs still needs to hold up for the duration of the fight.

Cotto is taking a calculated risk here. The reason why the odds are so close is because Cotto, along with the bookies believe that Martinez has slowed down and aged enough to lose the fight.

And they could be right. Martinez is almost 40. Father time waits for no one.

 

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They took the fight against Martinez cause he looked **** in the Murray fight. Nobody wanted to fight him three years ago.

 

:deal :good

 

if Sergio has anything left im worried for cotto

 

He didn't take a tune up because if he fight ANY fighter in the top 10 at 160 he gets beat.

 

Cotto definitely has no fear of anyone. Kudos for that, but I think Sergio beats him going away.

 

Definitely not wise just gutsy as always from Cotto.

 

160?
I thought they were fighting at 159lbs?

 

Mosley took two tune up 147 fights before Oscar. Just saying

 

Lol where was this great Cotto courage when Martinez was calling him out in 2010-2012? Before he had all these injuries and almost KO'd vs Chavez and barely escaped Murray? Big up Cotto for taking the fight in which he's a big underdog but let's not act like he hasn't waited until Martinez has visiby slipped.

 

No one would think less of Cotto if (probably when) he gets his buttox handed to him by Maravilla. Plus he's getting paid a frickin' fortune to do it.

And can you imagine what will happen if he somehow manages to pull it off? It will be huge, and Floyd would instantly call him for a rematch at 157-ish to try and take the lineal MW title as well for even bigger money.

It's actually mediocre risk (he'll probably lose, but nobody would hold that against him), huuuuuuuuuuuuge reward ($$$$$, prestige, even more $$$$$ etc)

 

only reason hes fighting with no tune up is cos hes tryin to get martinez before he has another fight and a chance of losing his title

simply cotto tryin to create history by catching martinez at the right time

 

At age 41 Hopkins went 15 lbs north and skipped the smw division to fight a solid champion in tarver without any tune-up and won easily, even dropping tarver once. so a cotto win wouldn't be that upsetting

 

It may not be wise, but it's better for him to lose to Martinez in a title fight than to someone else like he did against Trout.

 

Hopkins was always a light heavyweight dieting and running his way into the middleweight division. Completely different.