Cotto should have fought Williams after Williams beat Margarito.:goodCotto Vs Williams would be a good fight..I will not say Cotto would stomp him..Williams may very well beat cotto. A fight Williams has been looking for.
Go look at BOXREC.com ,pull up Cottos record and check out Compubox #s compare em to Williams and not only will you see Cotto has fought better opposition but mainly check out the difference in ACCURACY and youll realize that Williams throws alot but misses half of em...Cotto on the other hand is much more efficient and pinpoints his spots therefore in my eyes Cottos punches having more effect....anyway like you said it'll never materialize.
I dont buy that " i wasnt hurt B.S" Tony looked dazed and lost at times and even contradicted himself at times saying trhat he was never hurt then turn around and would say but Cotto does hit very hard....Btw NO MAN has ever had Tonys face that swollen and bruised before....Not Santos,Clottey or yes the Punisher Williams so now you put that together and it should tell you somethin about Cottos power
Regardless of what boxrec says. When Williams throws 1200 punches and only gets credit for landing 350 its not as if the other 850 punches hit thin air. They hit the opponents elbows, shoulders, wrists, hands. Well he may not get the point for a landed punch, those punches effect the other fighter greatly. They not only neutralize his attack, but they also wear on him down the stretch. Sure cotto may look cleaner, but they just have two different styles. I'd say they are both very effective in there own game.
Its a shame that this is what Paul has to do to get attention, but I support it. By the way you all know what he is saying is true, I guess deep down Cotto knew it too, that is why he always turned down requests from Paul.
I definitely don't argue with that. Cotto's punches bruised him up, he landed some ferociously accurate shots that would have seen lesser men hit the canvas. But I watched the fight three times, and I was simply amazed at Margaritos determination, and he was in the zone, and those punches didn't effect him during the fight. Sure they probably hurt the next day, but thats besides the point. Anyways my argument was never that Cotto isn't a good fighter, scratch that, a great fighter. I just simply feel that on any given night Cotto would have a very, very tough time with Williams, and I doubt he would be the one with his hands raised at the end.
Paul has a better chin than Cotto and If i remember clearly Margo was on his way to Knocking Out Paul had the (12rd) bell not saved him.And btw the 1st fight showed how to beat Williams and Cotto is very capable of doing what Quintana did.Again i dont buy that whole "oh i had an off night or he caught me off guard...blah,blah,blah" Nothing but escuses from Williams .You never heard Cotto comming up with escuses about getting his ass handed to him by Tony.~anyways gotta go peace
I know man, I wish Paul would sign a fight. But if I was a welterweight, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with a guy like him either.
Cotto turned down a fight against Pdub?? lol,come on man you dont have to fabricate lies to get your point across
There arent really any excuses to explain why you got KO'd, regardeless of who you are. And I honestly don't see why it is that hard to believe that Williams after winning a fight with "the most feared man in boxing" took his bout with Quintana lightly. And failed to realize, or care, that a crafty southpaw could give him an awkward night. What else can the man do to redeem himself? Someone give this guy a fight.
I'm not lying. After the Margo loss against Williams he tried to setup a fight with Cotto, because Cotto was supposed to fight the winner. Cotto refused and ran to MOsley and Gomez. Williams then tried to setup a rematch with Margo, Margo refused, he took his fight with Golden Johnson and had his rematch with Cintron. Williams then had a fight with Cintron, all of a sudden Cintron gets a hand injury and cancel, but he heals quick enough to fight Margrito and get his ass kicked again. All of them have run away from Paul to fight each other. It is sad.
Cotto's problems against Margarito would be similar ones he'd face against PW. Reach advantage to Margarito stopped Cotto from going to the body, what's his chance of success against someone even bigger who imo I cant see him hurting? It's an interesting matchup for sure, but PW is VERY durable even if people think he's easy to hit, but Williams wont just be stood there taking them, he'll be the guy throwing more shots, with more speed and better timing and accuracy than Margarito did. As people keep saying, PW is a middleweight really, maybe that's why even after throwing a record number of punches Margarito never seriously hurt him? We all know Cotto can be stopped now and this again gives Williams a huge edge, as he knows he can take what Cotto has to offer, but I doubt Cotto can do the same. I see him being beaten up in the second half of the fight after having some early success and then being stopped late after being a ways behind on the cards.