Why Cotto and Pavlik will rebound to greatness

Pavlik can certainly rebound to greatness, especially if he stinks to 160, where he is still the man. I don't see Cotto achieving greatness again though as he won't beat Margarito in a rematch and Tony is going to be king of the welters for a while yet. Cotto is too small to go up in weight and too big to go down so he will have to settle for the 2nd place maximum in his division for a numbers of years yet.

 

Cotto has made his intentions known that he plans to retire before or around the age of 30 so if he loses to Margarito again, I don't think he'll stick around to be a 2nd fiddle anyways.

 

I had forgotten about Cotto's plans on retirement, so if that is indeed true its pretty much impossible for him to achieve greatness. He's a very good fighter nonetheless

 

Agreed. I'm almost certain that it would be Margarito and either retirement or with a victory over Margo it'd be a fight with ODLH then retirement.

Point being I doubt he sticks around longer than 2010.

 

I've always felt Pavlik is predictable. He starts EVERYTHING with the jab and then the right hand. Everything is jab then right hand. The difference is that at 160, the jab and right hand combo works like a charm because the fighters can't deal with it over and over and over again...and when it gets through, he's way too powerful for fighters to cope with it. Once he gets into a rhtythm with said 1-2 combo, it's impossible to stop it.

But at higher weight classes, he's slower and less powerful. His punches lack the pop to make up for his lack of an OVERALL offensive arsenal. I noticed it against Taylor in the rematch and it rang true against Hopkins.

Pavlik stays at 160 he will return to greatness...if he keeps tinkering and toying with higher weight classes, he'll be derailed rather shortly.

 

Agreed, though I do think Cotto's loss was mentally harder to take.

Pavlik, win or lose against Hop, had and has those problems for keeps.

 

True but for at least right now, Cotto seems like he wants a rematch will tells me that he's at least TRYING to get over the fight and move on. It's not like certain guys like Carlos Quintana who disappear after every loss.

 

Clottey and Cintron would be pretty dangerous for Cotto.

 

Pavlik is not on Cotto's level, never will be.

 

It's a big fight...which means Cintron would go down easily and quietly.

As for Clottey? He'd surely be a dangerous foe..but I think Cotto beats him on workrate. It'd probably be close enough to warrant a rematch.

 

all great fighters lose, but most atgs avenge their losses if given the chance, sugar ray robinson never lost to any man twice till he was way WAY over the hill

 

Kessler and Bute would give him a hard time..I think people underestimate Andrade although I'm CERTAIN Pavlik would beat him. Danny Jacobs will be a fully developed pro by the time Pavlik settles at 168 and the way I see it, He'll be ruling the roost by then.