Cotto is going to get dominated I'm sorry to say.
The second part is whats gonna happen.
The way Cotto has looked lately gives all the signs that Pacquiao is gonna dominate him. Pacquiao is faster, hits hard, and punches in combination, the way Cotto dealt with Clottey is a tell sign that mentally he is still a fighter searching for a passion. Clottey had him looking discouraged in there like he was remembering Margarito all over again, and it was only after Clottey took his foot off the gas Cotto could do something and even then was content with single shotting and doing just enough to take the rounds. He is looking for a break where he can feel confident again. Pacquiao won't give him that much of a break, if Cotto starts feeling discouraged so soon Pacquiao is gonna pour it on him and massacre him. Cotto is mentally not the same since that Margarito fight. Cotto is going downhill mentally and he can't afford it against Pacquiao. He knows he can be beat, and he knows he can be outlasted, that Margarito handwraps story and stuff like that(that he used it in the Cotto fight even though that was never proven) only hurts a fighter like Cotto. Just like when people told Hatton the only reason Mayweather beat him was because he was 147, people telling Cotto the only reason Margarito beat him was because he probably used handwraps, it gives a fighter a false sense of security. Then Cotto starts breaking down in the same way in the Clottey fight and there is no excuse, it can mentally scar a fighter to get faked into believing their first loss they werent vulnerable then realizing its true. Pacquiao is NOT the kind of fighter he should be fighting right now.
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