Quote Originally Posted by amat
Good post Ouma. Totally agree and the fact that Zab came on against Spinks has more to do with Spinks fading imo.

Anyways, Zab has power that's for sure. But a lot of that power comes when he is flatfooted, I don't see him willing to stand his ground against Cotto. Which means he'll probably have to make angles which he does do and that's one of the few things he does really well. But Cotto's fairly active in transition now which is what he wasn't against Corley or especially Torres. I don't think the oppurtunities are going to present themselves like some people think.

But Cotto's chin isn't the best and he can be put down. Which is Zab's only hope imo. Zab has never given a boxing lesson in the past except against Micky Ward maybe, no way he gives one to Cotto.

Zab is going to have to catch him and pounce to finish the job. Cotto does get hit by straight punches a fair bit, and that's something Judah can throw especially the left. If he manages to hurt Cotto, which could very well happen then he is going to have to find a serious meanstreak and get the job done on the ropes or something.

But Zab just has so many bad habits that make it extremely unlikely for him to give Cotto any sort of a boxing lesson imo. He'll present a new challenge to Cotto that's for sure, but between dropping his hands after every combo, backpeddling with his hands down completely across the ring, lunging in with his right hand at his hip and his loopy punches in transition just makes it impossible to think for me that Zab is going to win this one.

Cotto UD with about 4 rounds for Zab.
You'll have to learn that you don't have to be conventional and keep your hands up every second or after every combination to be effective. Mayweather doesn't bring his hands up after a combination unless he hands were already up, and same with Roy. Zab also throws a very straight left hand, and if you watched the Spinks fight he broke him down. Spinks couldn't cope with the speed of the fight for that long, and Zab's superior foot speed wore him out.