mayweather:cotto learned from me 10 years ago

Mutual respect. That is probably the start of their amicable relationship.

 

i'll say it until i die ... you don't learn from people from what they say, you learn more from what they do

that's how you know the contenders from the pretenders.

sounds like a bad cliche but it's true

 

Cotto tries to use a shoulder roll defense at times (and has virtually no success with it), but you can tell Mayweather has a lot of respect for him.

 

when i tried to say Cotto uses a crappy version of the shoulder roll, Lance_Uppercut tried doing his usually crap with me and arguing

 

Mayweather was once a massive fan of Pacquiao, too. Back in the good old Top Rank days. He also went up to Shane Mosley once and said "When I grow up, I wanna' be just like you". True story.

 

He just doesn't want to give him any locker room material!!!

 

Like someone pointed out to me the shoulder roll has been done for yrs long before Mayweather..Just imagine though if both guys just shoulder roll

through all 12 rds

 

Yeah true but Mosley was never under Top Rank

 

I feel like I see you guys going back and forth on a lot of things

But I'm with you on Cotto's shoulder roll. He doesn't have the reflexes to pull it off well enough to use it with much consistency and he doesn't counterpunch off of it the way the greats in the past have. He uses it as a defensive tool in some compromising situations and I think it makes him more vulnerable than if he simply put up a tight guard and moved to a different angle.

 

Translation: "Cotto is B version of me."

 

Hopefully it becomes a battle of pull-counters and shoulder rolls

 

Its pretty clear to me Floyds using the reverse physco approach on Cotto. Cotto's much more fun to watch when he's upset....the mostly calm demenor he has is a natural disposition and its cascades into everything he does. A fired up Cotto would be a bit more of a challenge Floyds playing this diplomatic **** to a T.

 

atsch the fight would look like Ken vs Ryu with both guys moving the joystick back for 12 rounds.

 

cotto is goin to **** that ninja in the a$$