*Pacquiao vs Cotto...make your pick*

Reading through this thread it's just brilliant how this fight has divided everyones opinion. I've felt,right from the offset that Cotto would prove to strong,both physically and mentally for Pac and I've seen nothing to change my mind.But I certainly would'nt be putting my considerable sum of beer tokens on it.I will however be having a fun bet. Having just watched the final 24/7 and Bob Arum saying the fight takes him back to the 80's and the days of the 4 horsemen, it got me comparing tonights fight with those legendary battles. My dream now envisages a bruttle 3 round war the of the Hagler Hearns kind only more savage:nut Cotto is cut and on the end of some blistering combos in the 3rd. But at the end of a lightening 3 punch combo, Pac leaves himself to square on. The final right hook leaves him wide open to a peach of a left hook counter. Pac does a chicken dance and retreates to the ropes. Cotto moves in for the kill, and 2 more crunching left hooks and a right hand has Pacman sprawled out in his own corner. The ref waves it over.
5 quid on Cotto ko rnd 3 @ 40/1:good
Can't ****ing wait for this fight. You just know it's going to live up to expectations. Who the **** said boxings dead:bbb

 

I'm gonna go for a late stoppage from Cotto.

Pac on top over the first three or four rounds, while Cotto gets his timing right. Then Cotto takes over, taking out Pac around the 10th round.

If Cotto can establish his jab, then it will be curtains for Pac. But thats a big "IF".

 

Hi guys and what a great site. What a fight we have on our hands which leads me to think it will be a draw. Its soooooooo hard to choose.

 

Burnley looks like your beer tokens have been used already this morning

Lay off the sauce :deal

 

Will you remember to spell the fighters names correctly this time..... or will it be Pacquio vs Cotto - in lieu of Haye vs Valouev?

 

After Oscar and Hatton I'm going to pick against Pac one last time and going for Cotto to win in the 6th -8th rounds. If Pac proves me wrong this time I'm never picking against him again, even if he fights David Haye.

 

Cotto 9/2 for stoppage and 12/1 points.

Pfft...........

Might lay off a bit of that £30 on Pacquiao KO with a few on Cotto KO. This ain't going the distance IMO.

 

He's ****ed for a pick, they are both brown.

 

I havn't checked but you can usually get 33/1 on a draw if you fancy a cheeky fiver.

 

Not even if he fights Mayweather next year?

 

I can't mate, by that time I'll def. owe him the benefit of the doubt!!

 

Well, since Cotto moved up he's not stopped so many guys. He didn't before either.

I think Manny's opponents since he left 130 have been atrocious defensively. Can he stop a guy who has only previously been stopped by a dubious, brutal beating from Margarito, with a bad injury to boot?


I think points is a good possibility


I would say that, I've had a tenner on Cotto points lol

Considering making it a more considerable bet, I'm quite confident on this one.

 

There is that.... I'm not so sure Cotto is the same fighter that he was prior to the beating - though he did look great at the weigh in.

He won't be able (IMO) to outbox Pacquiao either and he doesn't have a high output really..... nor is he that good at cutting off the ring against elite fighters.

You are right on the defensive element - Diaz was slow and hittable, DLH flatfooted, Hatton :-(

I might put £3 on Cotto pts - those to me are the two more likely outcomes, guaranteed to be up either way!

 

Yeah, I wanted to see the weigh in, and it swung it for me.

Cotto looks absolutely tremendous, best I've ever seen him.

Manny looks great - but he always does, Cotto has looked unhealthy before on the scales and it's shown in the fight.

I think Cotto will look a lot bigger than Manny when they face up tonight.

 

I just think, looking at Cotto at the weigh-in, and his interviews leading up to the fight - he's so focused, so prepared. He needed a tough opponent in Clottey to know if he could take it, and he did. He kept cool and changed up his game plan, even with a serious cut, and out-boxed a bigger man.

He just looks like he really NEEDS to win. To silence all the people who say he's damaged goods.

I am ridiculously excited about this fight - all things considered, it's a potential classic.