Miguel Cotto's Pride Prevents Greatness In His Career!!!!!!!

This is just my humble opinion form a Cotto Fan to You!

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By: Nephtali Mercado

58,000 British soldiers were lost in the first day at the battle of the Somme. World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Over 60 million people were killed. On Nov. 14th we had firepower and the only casualty was Miguel “Angel” Cotto and his boxing pride.

It was labeled as the fight of the year; a mega event which would do amazing numbers on pay per view and a...matchup which promised heated exchanges. As the fight started we soon found out that Miguel “Angel” Cotto essentially brought a knife to a gun fight. Cotto started off the first round in a great way. He fought patiently, he jabbed, he provided proper movement and when he went towards his corner; his trainer Santiago said “Vamos a moverlo para atras” in other words, let’s start backing him up now.

As Miguel started the second round very confident, he tried to back Manny Pacquiao up and deviated from what worked so well in the first round. The Caguas native soon found out, it wasn’t as easy as he predicted. It was visible that Pacquiao’s speed was hindering the Caguas native Cotto, from pressing the action but what disturbed this writer was Cotto’s inability to adjust as he has in the past. I mean, we are talking about Miguel Cotto who stood toe to toe with a fast Shane Mosley and made many adjustments along the way.

In this battle Cotto didn’t bring any other plan other than to mull his opposition down. It worked in the past but what about his future? If Miguel Cotto plans on being great again, he must return to what got him there. The Miguel of the past boxed his way into victory; he would use speed, power, defense and movement to completely dismantle his opposition. It is what obtained him victories over Shane Mosley and the likes of Judah and Quintana.

Since leaving Evangelista we have seen a Miguel Cotto who has been comfortable with simply trying to overpower his opponents. Cotto was in a life and death battle with Joshua Clottley which we can attribute to the cut, but that happened in the 3rd round and if you view the 1st & 2nd round besides the flash knockdown; Miguel didn’t have any sort of game plan. Miguel has become predictable and is on the verge of becoming the next Fernando Vargas.

Bottom line, if Miguel wants to continue fighting at an elite level; he must make changes. As Cotto boxing fans we have excused the Margarito loss with bricks, excused the Clottley split decision with the cut but there is no excuse for pride. As he arrived in Puerto Rico, he was questioned by fans; will you make changes in your corner. The Caguas native was upset and replied “No, why make any changes?”

It is the typical boxing pride which has caused the downfall of many careers; from Tyson to Judah, from Camacho Sr. to Jr. Boxing pride has caused many potential greats to feel invincible and prideful in their training; fire trainers and believe they can make it on their own. Let’s hope that our Puerto Rican champion Miguel recognizes his errors before he makes several more of them.

†ali

 

Miguel became way too over confident after the Mosley victory. Even in the Margarito bout, did you see in the first round where he cocked his hand when he hit him...

Pride has hurt many boxers! Miguel Cotto is one of them, if he doesnt change trainers or his training mentality of relaxing and trainining in slow motion... then please retire !

 

There were a couple of times in this fight even before the knockdowns where Miguel looked like an amateur in there.... no balance, no footwork... and granted, no excuses Pacman is Pacman but Cotto has let his pride get the best of him.

In Puerto Rico every boxing trainer is telling him to make changes now or else... papa trinidad, bonilla all of them but he doesnt listen to them because he wants to be in charge.

When Evangelista was there, Evangelista was in charge and thats why they clashed.. Evangelista was always on top of Cotto, correcting his mistakes and giving correct gameplan. All of that is gone now. atsch

 

I dont think miguel would have won regardless, but it would have been a very competitive matchup...

This Miguel looked like total crap... he had no plan b... :-(

 

My friend, if you go to Youtube and search COTTO vs. SOSA thats classic Cotto right there... He forgot all of that, and he started relying on his power and stuff.... that Miguel Cotto was a beast...