Quote Originally Posted by Althugz View Post
leighton. Bradley doing better against Pac than Cotto will against Floyd means absolutely nothing. Despite what the Pacfans will have you believe the difference in skill level between Floyd and Pac is enormous.

So you say the weight wouldn't have mattered and Cotto still would have caught a beating? Begs the question I asked earlier..so why did Pac try to drain Cotto AGAIN if the result is such a foregone conclusion instead of meeting Cotto in the middle? That was Pacs preferred fight..if it was so easy, fight him again at 150? Truth is Cotto had Pacs number up until that 2nd knockdown.Perhaps due to being drained? Maybe not but we'll never know because Team Pac didn't want the rematch on neutral ground. Simple as that.

Cotto WAS doing very well against Pac for the first few rounds, snapping his head back with a very sharp jab. IMO, what turned the fight was the lack of a solid game plan from Cotto. He had the extremely ordinary Joe Santiago in his corner, who was likely as clueless as a 3rd grader in a nuclear physics class. Cotto began needlessly and prematurely trading with Pacquiao, and Pac caught him with some good shots from which Miguel never recovered.

The Cotto being handled by Pedro Diaz, however, would be a different matter altogether. And truth be told, I myself don't understand Pacquiao's reluctancy to fight Cotto at the higher weight. It's nothing Pac hadn't been doing before. What changed all of a sudden? So yeah... not a Pac-hater or anything, but it does seem a bit puzzling as to why Pacquiao would be so unyielding in his negotiations with Cotto.