Tougher Style for PBF - Cotto or Hatton?

Cotto lacks the footspeed to trouble Mayweather. imo.

Floyd Mayweather Jr UD

 

Speed - Hatton
Compact Punches - Cotto
Footspeed - Even
Reach - Cotto by 2 inches (still 5inches inches less than Mayweather)
Height - Cotto by 1inch (still 1inch shorter than PBF)
Inside Fighting - Even
Mid Range - Cotto
Long Range - Cotto
Jab - Cotto
Stamina - Even
Defense - Cotto by a landslide
Power - Cotto by landslide
Strength - Cotto has the bigger upper body.
Body attack - Cotto
Unpredictablity - Hatton
Balance - Cotto

 

Its all about footspeed in this case. Floyd has enough to keep the fight at a distance, and nobody beats Floyd from a distance.

 

Cotto defense by a landslide over anyone is a MAGNIFICENTLY LARGE stretch.

 

We are comparing Cotto/Hatton. Cotto's defense is much better if you ask me.

 

That's about the most important attribute you can have and most of your **** is completely biased.

Damn...it's like a ****in broken record.

You also forgot to add in experience. Cotto has been fighting the best opposition he can in order to set up a fight with Mayweather, the best possible boxers he can get in the ring with, while in contrast, Hatton has only fought Collazo, (and lost), since he beat Tyzu in the 1950's.

Hatton is incredibly predicatable by the way, he's terrible in his approach, IE: he doesn't know how to deliver intelligent pressure.

First of all, his hands are all wrong, as one his under his chin and the other by his chest, his head is too straight up, and he comes straight instead of at an angle and doesn't throw the jab.

While Cotto appears slower in closing the distance, it's really because he's stalking and trying to get the angle. Look at more advanced boxers who don't have speed to their advantage anymore.

Hopkins is a good example. He understand the importance of angles and establishing the jab.

Cotto is obvioulsy not at Hopkins level, but the point is, angles and the jab are more important that footspeed when such as Hatton's case your close the distance relatively fast, but you go in STRAIGHT foward and right into the line of a punch.

Cotto also keeps his hands up, and his chin down. And his jab is his BEST weapon as can be seen in his fight against Mosley. That was the one thing I think he needed to establish before getting in there with Mayweather and he did it.


Anyway, Cotto is a much bigger challenge for Floyd.

 

I really don't think so. Malignaggi landed at will, Judah landed ANY time that he let his hands go. Hatton's bull rush/smothering style keeps him out of harms way most of the time. Cotto likes to keep a distance where it has been shown that he can be hit and hit often. Collazzo landed a lot on Hatton, but I think that Collazzo is one of the most underrated fighters out there and its a damn shame that he broke his hand in the third against Mosley.

Not to mention, how many times has Cotto been dropped or rocked compared to Ricky? Remember, you have to get hit cleanly to get rocked.

 

Ignore this man's comments.

It's NOT ALL about footspeed.

Yeah because Hopkins has great footspeed.

It's about ANGLES, ESTABLISHING THE JAB, and INTELLIGENCE.

 

id say Cotto is alot more unpredictable than Hatton. Cotto jabs otuta nowhere literally, you never see it coming. not the fans and not the figher. he has no set rhtyhm.

 

atsch

Was Cotto ready for Mayweather then?

 

LOL. Talk about experience? When Cotto beats a P4P top 3 fighter lets talk.

OK. Lets make this REALLY simple.

Stalking Mayweather = Gatti, Corrales, Judah, De La Hoya.
Pressuring Mayweather = Chavez, Hatton and Castillo.

Which was more effective?

 

In this match up and comparison it is dog. Youre blind if you dont see it.

 

Apparently not.

Thats why he and Arum ran like Michael Johnson, and are STILL running today.

 

atsch

Slap yourself.

It's about the KIND of opposition. Urango, Castillo, and that guy with the ****ed up eye are not BOXERS!