Rethinking Cotto vs Hatton

At 140lbs Hatton would stop Cotto...

At 147lbs Id got for Cotto by stoppage, Hatton has a good chance of KO'ing
Cotto, but thats about it.

That being said, Cottos weaknessess tend to be against people who trade with him, Hatton's weakness is against slick counter punchers with a decent dig, Cotto wouldnt fight Hatton like that...but, I personally dont feel Hatton has any business up at 147lbs, and should stick at 140lbs and fight Zab Judah and then Manny Pac..

 

Hilarious considering how Paulie fought tonight and how he looked against Ngoudjo and N'Dou.

 

I'm perplexed about that amount of support in this thread for Hatton in a potential fight against Cotto. Hatton was hurt by Lazcano and KOed by Mayweather, both of whom can't punch like Cotto. This is seemingly a knee jerk to tonights win against Malignaggi who has no power to speak of. I'd pick Cotto by brutal stoppage.

 

I have ALWAYS been of the opinion that Hatton would beat Cotto at 140 but not 147 and nothing has changed that

 

Hatton loses at 147. He's slower, less pop on his punches, and the punches have a greater affect on him there. Sure, Hatton is a great pressure fighter and that will give Cotto some problems in the early rounds, but Hatton is significantly smaller than Margo with less reach and weaker chin. Unless Hatton improves his clinching-survival technique, Cotto stops him in 9.

 

Cotto was almost KO by b- featherfisted Corley. If you thought Hatton was hurt by Lazcano u should see Cotto vs Corley.

Cotto gets hurt easy, he is soft for an elite guy, and if he gets hurt against Haton, believe hatton will not let him off the hook like Torres and Corley did.

Then again Cotto can always bust Hatton's balls like he did Judah.

 

At 147lbs I agree with you, but not at 140lbs,
Hatton when fired up and motivated walks through everything (apart from the check hook :yep ) just look at how he took Tyszu's shots,
he wasnt motivated for Lazcano and was perhaps somewhat fragile.

But as ive said, at 147lbs Hatton has no business fighting up there,
its something ive stuck with since the Collazo fight.

 

You make some good points and I agree with in that Ricky's speed, work rate and punching acuracy would give him problems. And I totally agree with whomever said that the whole Cotto would kill this guy myths that were out there before are going to slowly be broken down as people start to put his actual abilities in a more realistic preseoctive.

I will say this about Cotto. He isn't as multi dimenstional as fighter as people think he is. He is a multi dementional fighter interms of what he can do but interms of what he does do he's not that creative. His basic respons to being forced to fight is basically to bomb away and let his skills and power win him the day. This IS what would happen in a fight with hatton. Only problem for Ricky is that it would win him the day.

 

A **** load of rounds? Yeah, aiight...3, maybe 4 rounds is a whole lot. Either way, Cotto's biggest problem that night wasn't Malignaggi..it was on his own gas tank due to weight drain. The rounds Paulie won against Cotto were the rounds Cotto took off. Even George Foreman said so.

Either way, after the Cotto fight, Malignaggi collapsed in his dressing room, and was rushed to the hospital where he spent a week. After Hatton? Paulie's probably in a Vegas strip club right now.

 

LOL, Cotto was taking rounds off. He had the fight, but he did get hurt. However, Cotto put on a BEATING on Paulie.