Was Cotto's success exaggerated against Mayweather?

yes, Way overrated.

 

It was not very close at all in terms of scoring. Mayweather outboxed him very clearly. However the success of Cotto was more about his ability to land, which was surprising. Cotto dishes out a lot of jabs, a few left hooks that did some real damage on Floyd.

 

? There where a lot of moments when cotto outboxed Floyd... made him look stupid actually. Take Floyd's balls outta your ass.

 

Yes.

It has to do with people's expectations heading into this fight. The more you watch this fight, the more this becomes obvious. Has this been a pickem fight heading into the fight, people would say Floyd dominated, which he did. How many hard, flush right hands did Cotto take? Maybe 75?

 

Yes Cotto had very limited success but hell he did step his game up to a level I didn't think he had and actually gave a good effort instead of getting blown out he did well.

 

What is this some more revisionist history by gayweather fans.

Cotto won 3 or 4 rounds and made it competitive with FLoyd through all 12 rounds. Floyd never could dominate him except maybe part of the 12th. So no his success isn't exaggerated.

 

Floyd's legs are really slowing down, that's why Cotto had some success. Floyd of just a couple of years ago toys with Cotto. You didn't see one leaping left hook and only a couple of pull back counter attempts. Both moves require a ton of natural talent. Floyd is mostly a stationary fighter now. And he still f%cked Cotto up despite this fact.

 

Yes and no. Depends on what you weigh more when judging success. Offense? Defence? Rounds won vs lost? How about punches landed vs opponent. If you listen to commentators , HBO ones, it was. If you look at how recent opposition has done against Mayweather, he's done a lot better offensively than most. But then again, Cotto is an offensive fighter, a very good one, and not a very good defensive fighter. That showed, as he took a lot of punishment, more than Mayweather's recent opponents as well, considering that Mayweather isn't the most offensive, especially since coming up to Welterweight.

 

he didn't get dominated he won 3 or 4 round in a 12 round fight as you said.................Dumbass.

 

Cotto has slowed down a lot too.. he's like 4-5 years past his prime.

 

you could give cotto 3 or 4 rounds but they were never clean. floyd had a lot of pretty dominant rounds.

 

How many hard, flush right hands did Floyd land? A ton. And this was from 1-12. No, this wasn't your typical Floyd whitewash but he still controlled.this fight from start to finish outside of a couple of rounds.

 

the more i watch the fight the more it becomes clear that Cotto was given credit for making certain rounds close without actually winning them. Watching the fight the first time I was under the impression Floyd wasn't as in a control as he appears to be after a couple more watches. being competitive in a round and actually winning the round are 2 completely different things.....was Cotto competitive in several rds? hell yes. did he legitimately win more than 2 rounds clearly? hella nah

 

Against Floyd, nobody has consistent success... He is too damn elusive but what Cotto did to his credit was ALSO block 75% of Floyd's shots... Cotto looked like a wizard in there at times making Floyd miss and catching his shots.

 

Lol. You and me saw a different fight.