Honestly, I think Cotto would win. He proved himself to be quite a beast at MW with that Geale performance.
The gulf in skill is far too wide for 4 pounds to make a shred of difference. 156/160/164, it makes no difference, Lemieux loses and loses big
I mean one thing is that, stylistically, we saw how well Lemieux "deals" with a jab, and let's not forget Cotto's jab.
Deals with "Golovkin's" jab. Not just any jab. Golovkin has one of the best jabs in the sport and threw it consistently (5x the MW average). Cotto has a good jab too, but Cotto is much smaller than Lemieux and doesn't have the reach advantage. He isn't as good of a defender as GGG is either.
Yes, even considering all that, given how terrible he was against GGG, it doesn't give me any confidence he'd deal with Cotto's much better. Also, Cotto has a really good left hook which he uses constantly which GGG didn't use much against him and he's more of a mover as well, I don't see Lemieux doing well against that.
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, uhm no he doesn't.... gigi uses his jab better than anyone i've seen in a while. he also has the highest ring iq in the game