Prime Cotto

Castillo was a better fighter in his prime than Cotto. But yea, Cotto has a good shot at beating Floyd but let's just say that at even odds i know where my money's going.

 

Cotto gets beat in a boring wide decision 9-3, 8-4. I really like Cotto, always have and always will, but he doesn't have the physical gifts to compete with PBF.

 

Definitely more competitive before he took the beatings from Margarito and Pacquiao, but I've always favoured Mayweather in this match-up...but Cotto would most likely have his moments.

 

Castillo was a more relentless fighter who went in and just threw punches no matter what he hit and they were aimed mostly at the mid-section, Castillo really did nothing spectacular in that fight aside from putting pressure and throwing punches, he rarely landing a flush shot and never hurt Floyd and that was a 135lb Floyd.

Cotto likes to place his punches and likes to box more, he wouldn't waste punches like Castillo did, Miguel works at a slower pace and is easy to hit, he's a very good body puncher but Floyd's defense would more than likely nullify that, Zab was giving Cotto hell in the early goings and everyone knows Zabs a front runner and tires late and those low blows didn't help.

Cotto at his prime barely squeaked a decision against Shane who with some good counters forced Cotto to retreat and turn to boxing off his back-foot, with Cotto's shaky chin and his leaky defense i would expect Floyd to win a very easy UD with sharp counters and lead left hooks, Cotto's good but he only dominated guys he was supposed to dominate he had close fights with Shane & Joshua and lost to Margarito and Pacquiao the best name he dominated was a 4 or 5 round fighter in Zab Judah.

Easy win for Floyd.

 

Well i'm not going to get into who ducked who, i never heard Cotto mention Floyd not wanting to fight him, nor did i ever hear Cotto call Floyd out, just because Floyd didn't fight lets say Alfonso Gomez doesn't mean he wouldn't beat him easily.

 

No.

No version of Cotto would have beaten Floyd.

 

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I felt Mayweather avoided the time and it was a fight people wanted to see but he probly would have won a close but clear decision. He would have probly won about 118-110 against the version Pac fought.

 

:good

 

Cotto is a wasted talent, once promising, mediocre trainer, never developed any further past his first 15 or so fights.

 

I hate to say it but 'prime' cotto gets overrated a lot. He is a nice guy so I see why hes got a lot of fans but there are so many other fighters in the last 10 years that were much better than him at welter. His best win was a close decicion over mosley, which made him become unofficially the top guy, what was his 2nd biggest win? stopping judah? everyone has stopped judah. A close, lucky decision over clottey?

 

Wulda bn an awesum fight n I believe Cotto had wt it takes to grind out a punishing win...

Mayweather as awesum as he is never really took the fights that wuldve made him as great as he could have been...and I believe this was 1 fight that couldve proved Floyds mettle

But as every1 knows I'm biased in my prediction...

WAR COTTO!!!

 

Cotto was always too hittable to beat Mayweather. And too basic.