Was Cotto 'Drained' or 'Dehyrdrated' when fighting Pacquiao?

Lets decide this with a poll once and for all. Many posters on here are now beginning to claim that cotto was dehydrated or drained for the fight with pacquiao. They base their opinion on the opinions of others who claim to have witnessed cotto weigh in at other fights and in their estimation, miguel looked more drained at the pacquiao weigh in.

The following are a list of factors i look for when deciding without fight night weights when a fighter may be weight drained:

-Ability to respond to punishment - This is particularly relevant to cotto, because as we all know cotto was being rocked badly and often at 140. In the pacquiao fight cotto took an absurd amount of punishment and clearly he was able to finish the fight standing.

-Stamina later in the fight - Cotto was still boxing on his toes in the closing stanzas indicating that he was not sluggish or fatigued by the pace of the fight, a pace only rivalled for him in the margarito fight.

-Performance of a fighter in comparison to his performance in other fights - Cotto looked just as good in the pacquiao fight as he did in the judah fight, the early stages of the margarito fight, the mosley fight and many others. He was making manny miss. He was countering manny hard. And Cotto was in the fight and winning signficant portions of the fight. Drained fighters tend to be slowed down by a hectic pace or are unable to react to punch sequences quickly enough to be in the fight.

I wont include factors such as it clearly being evident on the fight that cotto was bigger than manny when they stood side by side to touch gloves as i dont want to be drawn into a debate as to what others saw.

Please vote and put this bull**** to bed before this myth of cotto being drained turns into a fact which becomes thrown about to lessen the victory a True ATG and takes away from a great performance by a worthy challenger in Miguel Cotto.

 

That is more nonesense alluded to by Ron Fraizer in one of his boxing articles. He sort of mentioned it in a passing reference which indicates that he was bullshitting. This is what i mean when i say the cotto being drained myth is being turned into fact. Your absolutely right when you say such a stipulation would not have permitted cotto to last as long as he did.

 

On top of that cotto didnt fight like he was drained. He was kicking mannys ass at times.