My thoughts on how Cotto can use the tools at his disposal to beat Mayweather

Mayweather won't come close to using as much movement, but his footwork is still awesome. Cotto has to move with Mayweather, creating angles whilst moving forward, getting himself in to positions to throw not only his best punches (left hook, body and head) but shots that Mayweather maybe won't expect, his improved right hand.

Cotto used his right hand great against Margarito, he not only used it as a power/point scoring punch, but he used it to set up his left hook and combinations. Got Margarito's attention with it (didn't even have to land it), then got the following shots in...an example of the phase work Cotto needs to employ IMO.

Cotto definitely has to be aggressive, I think he can have a little success on the backfoot, because like you said, Cotto is actually a good counter puncher. He will not win this bout on the back foot though.

Something I love seeing boxers do is step in to the opposite stance whilst throwing a punch. You rarely ever see it, and the last time I saw it was Pirog against Jacobs (and in the amateurs a couple of weeks back). IF Cotto can do this whilst throwing his right hand, he can put himself in a good position to get his punches off. It also stops him from falling in to a pattern of the same shots that Mayweather will eat up. The important word in this paragraph though, is IF.

 

Cotto is going to beaten into a bloody pulp. Walking a one eyed, semi retired, b level zombie like Margarito into shots is not any indication he will do the same with Mayweather.

 

I'd still put my money on Ortiz being quicker in terms of offensive footwork. I don't think he can fight as well as Cotto can going backwards, or side to side. The Yuri Foreman fight suprised me. Cotto matched him step for step, and Foreman has/had terrific footwork.

I don't see Cotto having the intelligence, the range or the weight to force Mayweather onto the ropes. I think if Floyd's back touches the ropes then he wants it there, and he's walking Cotto into something. (That said, I expect Floyd to fight a forward moving, offensive fight) DLH backed Mayweather into the ropes by using his long sharp jab and following up with his physical size. Hatton got him there in spells my mauling him and Ortiz bull rushed and used his weight. (He paid a price for that) As far as I can tell, Cotto can't realistically get away with any of the above. If he wants Mayweather against the ropes, he may well need to back towards them himself, clinch and hope to spin Floyd around.

Did you mean the photo that was on here? You cant see it any more but I got a good look earlier and on the episode.

It's just for comedic effect. Cotto fights taller now, that's one of the things Manny Steward sorted out. The accurate part was the wide body shots, I'd still like Cotto to tuck his elbows in and throw sharper. He tends to wing them a bit in my eyes. If Cotto fights crouched, he'll get stopped.

 

lol

 

Care to expand?

 

The thought of Cotto(e) bossing Floyd around in the clinches is hard to imagine. Floyd is a veteran in the trenches and has outdone masters at it like Mosley and Hatton. Cotto(e) just learned how to do it in his last daycare session.

Cotto(e) lives up to that Latin machismo too manly to clinch stereotype.

 

Yep, agree. I'm intrested to see who manouvers the leverage in the clinch.

If you were Cotto, how would you get Mayweather against the ropes? (If you planned too atall.)

 

I don't care what he says, he didn't stop throwing it, he stopped landing it.

 

No way is Floyd Manny,IMO. Manny comes at you from all angles,throws alot of punches, is offensive and can punch harder than Floyd. Floyd is fast but rarely displays an offensive strategy. He makes fighters come to him. Cotto doesn't have to be as fast to make good on his opportunities, whenever he gets in close make the most of it by hitting him anywhere above the belt,shoulders,arms,sides etc.. I don't see Floyd hurting Cotto anytime in the fight!

 

Oscar didn't even know what caused him to stop jabbing. This why he lost the way he did

 

Oscar knew damn well. Mayweather adjusted and timed the right hand over the jab. Oscar who's never been great at making adjustments really had no answer. In his book he says I tore my rotator cuff, and in the end I had to resort to deliberatley leaving my head out there, hoping he'd break his hand on it.

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:rofl

 

Jose Luis Castillo style. Shoulder feints to maneuver Floyd onto the ropes. Use the jab too. Both Jose and Oscar were able to back Floyd up with the jab, especially when they did the basic double jab combo. Jose did a brilliant job and landed punches on Floyd that he isn't even vulnerable to, punches we don't see work on him often such as the left hook.