Translation of Cotto's Post-Mayorga Golpe A Golpe Interview and Breakdown With JMM

This was the Golpe A Golpe interview done right after the Mayorga fight, where Cotto talks a bit about his future, and then breaks down the dynamics of the fight in the ring with JMM. Both separate videos and translations are posted. Enjoy.

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("Miguel Cotto Says He Would Win A Rematch Against Margarito")

Announcer Dude: ...Your future...at the end of the bout with Ricardo Mayorga, we were at the (post-fight) press conference and evidently Antonio Margarito was there. He's not there by chance. What comes next, possibly, for Miguel Cotto, is Antonio Margarito; the rematch. If it's signed, if it's made Miguel, do you have the opportunity to remove a thorn (from your side)?

Cotto: Well, there's a saying in Puerto Rico that we use very often: A blow without return is not a blow. And well that will be my opportunity to to remove, my opportunity to correct, well, the errors that I made. In that fight, I assure you that I won't make them, and that the fight, if it happens, will have a very different ending.

Announcer Dude: Juan Manuel, Antonio Margarito fought with Manny Pacquiao, and was beaten up over 12 rounds. Miguel Cotto fought with Manny Pacquiao, and more or less the same thing happened. But Margarito gives the impression that he comes in, a bit, a bit more on the downside with respect to Miguel Cotto.

JMM: But take note that I don't see that as a reference for these kinds of fights. People expect him to come in a bit damaged, a bit..

Announcer Dude: More beaten?

JMM: Yes, he's going to come in a bit more damaged, but you can't expect or give yourself confidence that he'll come in with his abilities hampered. You have to have the same caution, and you have to prepare yourself the same, and here Cotto can tell us what he would do for that type of fight, or what, what are the basics that you have to prepare yourself with for that fight?

Cotto: Well, we'll keep going as we have been in the training camp of Emannuel, who has been the architect in these big fights that we've had, this year and last year. And well, following his directions. We understand that we're going to find the formula, the ideal formula to defeat Antonio. If, if the event gets arranged, we don't have any doubt that we'll come out victorious.

Announcer Dude: Now Miguel, that is important, how Emmanuel Steward works; the workout plan, the strategy...Juan Manuel had already asked you in Las Vegas on Golpe A Golpe, that normally, pressure fighters give you a lot of difficult work, give you something of a problem. Evidently there wouldn't seem to be an immediate solution to the problem, but, there was that of a game-plan, to be followed in the right moments. Do you still think that, that pressure fighters are the ones that hurt you?

Cotto: Well, we all have styles that cause us problems, but I understand that with the help of Steward, with the help of all the members of the team, we're going to find the ideal formula to come out victorious, to capitalize on the errors that Margarito might make on that night, and we don't have any doubt that we'd come out with the win.

Announcer Dude: Now, Margarito looks to be practically a done deal, there hasn't been anything signed, but the fight looks very viable. But after Margarito, or in case the that it isn't Margarito, what other names cross the immediate destiny of Miguel Cotto?

Cotto: I don't have any name at the moment, Margarito right now is the name that's being talked about, there has been talk of Chavez Jr. which didn't go anywhere, there has been talk of Canelo that hasn't gone anywhere, there has been talk of Berto, which hasn't gone anywhere, right now everything is in limbo and nothing is concrete.

Announcer Dude: Against who would you want to face off Miguel?

Cotto: As always, as always, I've always followed the hand of the company, the ones who have handled my career, who have handle this great career that I've had. I've always been open to the names they've given me, I've never said no to any opponent. I'm willing to face the biggest names and it doesn't matter to me; with whoever it is, Cotto is willing to fight them.

Announcer Dude: Including Pacquiao?

Cotto: Including all. Whoever it is.

Announcer Dude: Is the spectacle guaranteed again, Juan?

JMM: That's right, a guaranteed spectacle where we see a Mexican fighter and a Puerto Rican fighter; guaranteed spectacle.

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Announcer Dude: The Ring of Golpe A Golpe with Miguel Cotto and Juan Manuel Marquez...Well, champions, we're ready to observe you and watch you with care and at a distance. Elaborate for us Miguel, how is your jab, that connected time and time again on Mayorga, that's a punch that opened the door for you.

Cotto: Yes yes, it's, for me the most important punch in boxing. It opens the path for the rest of your punches and we prepared for that in this fight.

Announcer Dude: Will you teach us how it is Miguel?

Cotto: Of course.

Announcer Dude: Go ahead Juanito, haha.

JMM: Now it's my turn, I'm Mayorga.

Announcer Dude: We see that you advance a lot of distance with the jab, Miguel. How is it?
Cotto: In the moment that you're going to throw, together with the punch, you step forward with your leg. And it gives you more range to get to your opponent.

JMM: And the important thing was, in the fight with Mayorga, was that Mayorga would come in unguarded.

Cotto: Unguarded.

JMM: That's what gave you the opening to connect your jab as many times as you wanted. Let's see; for example I'm here, I'm Mayorga, and he would come in unguarded and that's what you would do (Cotto jabs). Nothing more; you put out your hand and he came forward, getting hit by himself. But apart from that, you would also throw your jab, whilst giving good movement by the feet.

Cotto: Of the legs.

JMM: Of the legs, and it's a very strong punch, which as you said marks your range, and allows you to throw combinations.

Cotto: To be able to..exactly.

Announcer Dude: Now...your use of combinations with the left hand, always with the right hand covering, Juan Manuel...so the left hand goes downstairs on the inside, closed (not looped), and then it goes upstairs. Will you show us that combination Miguel?

Cotto: Uhuh-

JMM: (interrupting in a tone that suggests such fond adoration in explaining) That one Mayorga let himself susceptible to as well, because he's a fighter who likes to fight short. What Mayorga would do was to be right here (in close), but he would leave himself open.

Cotto: Yes he would open himself up. (Grabs JMM by the wrists) He opens his elbows up. Open to tag him here (body), and then go upstairs, quickly go upstairs.

JMM: But you used both arms as well, which was important. You would go with the hook to the body, go up with the (left) uppercut, and you drove up the right uppercut as well. That was fundamental.

Cotto: Yes, because of him being so open, it helped me to get in my short punches better.

Announcer Dude: Can we see it at a speed a bit closer to reality, Miguel? How is it.

Cotto: Of course.

Announcer Dude: Very well.

JMM: They got in because Mayorga left himself susceptible to those types of combinations, and we've seen that in other fights, Cotto connects those same punches. Those punches on the inside,that in the Knockout as well was fundamental for you; the hook.

Announcer Dude: Very clean technique, no?

JMM: Technically very clean, good, the knockout punch looked to me that you counter-punch him-

Announcer Dude: It was backwards, the other way around, over here...

JMM: Yes it was like this (moves)...so you counter-punch a jab, or a straight, I can't remember too well..

Cotto: He threw a punch..(steps in and slips JMM's punch)

JMM: He threw a jab I believe, and you got him like this (Cotto hooks.)

Announcer Dude: With all of the force from the waist.

JMM: With all of the force from the waist, because in the moment that he turns into it (the slip), he's already turned his shoulder, and he can come back and counter with the full movement. A very strong punch.

Announcer Dude: Without letting Ricardo cover himself.

JMM: And so Ricardo-

Announcer Dude: He can take shots.

JMM: He can take shots, he absorbed everything very well, he was very well prepared. In this fight, it was one of the fights I've seen him best prepared in, and he doesn't stop with his clowning around but you came in and surprised Mayorga.

Announcer Dude: It was a better fight than a lot of us expected because, thanks to the shape of Ricardo, and because of your boxing technique.

Cotto: Thank you. Yes, Ricardo came in very excellent condition, so he made for a very clean and very good fight.

Announcer Dude: Very entertaining. Well this was the ring of Golpe A Golpe with Miguel Cotto, champion of the super-welterweight division, and Juan Manuel Marquez, lightweight champion of the world.

 

:good I know, I'm glad I started looking it up regularly. Nothing better than hearing JMM break down fights and seeing elite Latin fighters give interviews you wouldn't get anywhere else. And yea, JMM has a great future in this once he retires. I wonder how he'd do as a trainer.

 

Pretty sure he's on there every Friday, hence there are so many videos. This is the eighth one I've translated I believe, and that's only the real good ones I've been able to find recently or dig up. I'm pretty sure he's a regular, hopefully he stays on there or gets his own show or becomes a trainer.

 

What do you guys think of how he broke down the Mayorga fight in terms of a potential Chavez Jr. showdown? Him and Steward constantly mentioned that you either stay on the outside and make him miss, landing the jab, or get the better of him on the inside with superior accuracy. I think his footwork is now more efficient and he could take away the size advantage.

 

No problem :good Glad you enjoyed it.