Primary rule of boxing .............Never bet on the white guy !

I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE Cotto but let me tell you, if he fights Pacquiao the way he fought Clottey, his ass is TOAST!........It wouldn't last 3 rounds.

In my opinion, the only reason he won was because someone forgot to tell Clottey to make Cotto's eye his main target.....fort the body, the uppercut....go straight to the eye.

I still think Cotto won, but if they would've given it to Clottey, I wouldn've been ok with it......100 dollar poorer but ok nonetheless.

I dare you to tell that to one Wladimir or Vitali......INSIDE a ring. JAJAJAJA.

Or Joe Calzaghe.

As much as I abhor siding wiht goulet on this, but I have to admit that I never bet on white either !

Kelly Pavlik, Carl Froch.

tupapa what do expect as far as how cotto fought? he had a handicap practically the whole fight. even though i dint like the way cotto was in retreat in the fight in the latter rounds you still cant blame him. do not jump on the paquiao bandwagon okay! he has not fought the same competition in no way as cotto. everbody is basing the delahoya victory and the ricky hatton victory in thinking that paquiao has this advantage over cotto. you cant tell me that delahoya wasent old and washed up along with having to drain weight in order to fight pac. also ricky hatton was a tailor made fight for pac because he has no defense and he telegraghs his punches. do you think he followed maywheathers gameplan to stick and an move hell no!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love pac but when cottos punhes starts to land he is gonna realise wow this aint marquez hitting me. yeah pac got speed but one thing that off sets that is a good jab an cotto got that!

mirabal very correct regarding Cotto's level of competition AT WELTERWEIGHT.

Cotto always faces top 10 ranked opponents, with two or three exceptions I can think of in the last few years (Alfonso Gomez, Michael Jennings) . That is 18 straight fights since 2003 almost all at the top level between 140-147.

In fact Cotto's resume is vastly superior to Mayweather at both 140 and 147lbs in that period. More activity and better opponents. It is also better than Shane Mosley's record since 2003.


Given that we know Margarito was a scumbag cheater, and that Cotto holds a decision win over Mosley, I would call Cotto the shadow champion of the division.

http://www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=33535&cat=boxer

Pz out everyone!

manhattan excelent post which i perceive you to be an expert like myself. pacquiao does exactly what floyd should be doing and that is either fight ranked opponents in your own division or move up. instead he fights little guys!!!!!! pacquiao has balls let me tell you and i think that he is the example for boxing. lets put it this way pacquiao and cotto are definetely the darlings of hbo.

Pac is the man, I have no problem with him choosing his opponents because he is not claiming to be the welterweight champ. He beats who they put in front of him and is already an overachiever many times over. You are right he is the example for boxing, a guy always looking for a challeneg, not just a payday.

Which brings us to 'Money' Mayweather. I do respect the fact that he probably would defeat everyone in the WW rankings (except Paul Williams) .... however except for Hatton it has been years since Maywetaher faced anyone top 5 in their division when they fought.

Even Hatton is questionable now that he has been exposed. Hatton was carefully guided to the top at 140lbs and used all the homefield advantage and hugging possible to defeat an old Kostya Tszyu! That was his only 'impressive' win. And Mayweather did not even fight Hatton at his own weight.