Interesting how different people scored the fight. It ranges all the way from 10-2 Floyd (which I find absurdly ridiculous)... to one poster who had it a draw. Personally, I saw it as 7-5 Floyd, although with the closeness of some of the rounds, it could've been 8-4 Floyd. I agree that Floyd won the fight.

I think one point of disagreement is the very first round. I gave it to Cotto... whereas I'm sure many others gave it to Floyd. But I watched it several times. Neither fighter connected effectively. And I gave Cotto the edge because he was the aggresor. With everything else equal, and Cotto being the aggresor, I gave the round to Cotto.

Upon seeing the fight again, I had two rounds even: 3 and 7. I went back to each of those two rounds, and ended up giving Round 3 to Cotto and Round 7 to Floyd. Again, they were close as hell.

As I've maintained throughout... Cotto didn't miss everything he threw (regardless of what Floyd fans would like to believe), and Floyd didn't connect everything HE threw (many punches looked nice, but were blocked.... and defense DOES count for something).

But no complaints. Cotto did a hell of a lot better than most people expected... and there's a lot of fight left in him. I still think the change to Pedro Diaz as his trainer did him a world of good, said so by Cotto himself. Finally somebody to whom Cotto can look up to and respect... and a proven entity in the world of boxing.

I'm really looking forward to Cotto's next fights.