Miguel Cotto will be remembered as...

This coming from a race traitor and coward. atsch

 

Borderline great in the ring, and total diva outside it.

 

Nah even KKKovalev's family didn't reject him.

 

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Race....something that doesn't even exist........Neanderthals like you sure do amuse me.

 

:deal

 

Do you weight more than 200 lbs? :huh I heard you box a bit but I wanna know what weight. Por favor senor.

 

Buck eighty. With a few weeks of training, super middle.

In my 'prime', had I ever gotten to actually have one (in my early twenties, a decade ago), I would have been a light welterweight. Now though I'd be skeletal even as low as 160.

 

hardly, my friend.
cotto should be remembered as a fighter who was a stepping stone to the best in the division, and his 'middleweight mantle' (which needs to be acknowledged for what it was) was fortuitous.
after saying that, I've been COMPLETELY out of the loop with boxing for a good couple of years - as evidenced by my lack of posting on here over that same time period

 

I don't even factor in the back-end of his career. The lineal title grab with Maravilla was a farce IMO.

I say he was borderline great based on his work at 140 and 147lbs. At the former weight, before he outgrew it, he was just a h2h beast - and fascinating to watch because he always had that air of vulnerability tempering his talent. Scalps included then-unbeaten Maussa, Torres, Malignaggi & Pinto along with N'Dou, Bailey & Corley when each still had just a few losses on their record and were still capable world class guys, along with Abdullaev, Branco, and Sosa. Pretty solid, and that's before he even moved up to welter to add Quintana, Urkal, Judah, Mosley, Gomez, Jennings and Clottey. Sure, that isn't quite a full-on ATG résumé but it probably is HOF worthy, as there is plenty of depth of "solidness" with a couple of big important names. Beyond that is where I stop giving him much credit, though. His junior middle run after the Pac loss is nothing special really., Yuri Foreman had a padded record and, for half the fight, a bum knee. Mayorga was shot. Margarito was already half-blind. D-Rod had been in tons of wars and was FNF level in his prime. Maravilla, well, everybody knows the story there. After his initial welter run the only thing he really did worth a damn was giving Mayweather a hard night's work, and I do give him credit for that...but Mayweather also was on the slide by then.

 

...and that's all coming from a Cotto fan...

 

:good
good call
if memory serves though, cotto - Floyd was at 154 where Floyd clearly lost a lot of movement. hence, he only fought blown-up welters at that weight.
certainly not out to defame cotto - I think HOF is a good call simply because, as you put it so well, he always seemed to have that "air of vulnerability tempting his talent", yet always managed to stay relevant in and around weights which boasted some serious opposition.

 

I really struck a nerve Anyway, you guys can have Jeff M. Perhaps his genes will pacify your belligerent gene pool a bit. :hi: