Quote Originally Posted by Beanflicker View Post
Freddie Roach is one of the great opportunists in the sport. Manny was a huge underdog against DLH, but Roach wanted the fight because he had the inside info on DLH that he was washed up and, according to Roach "couldn't pull the trigger anymore", and was ripe for the picking. He saw the same thing in Sergio, a 40 year old champ with knee problems.

I give Cotto credit for being the one to dethrone him, but Sergio was a far cry from the guy who dominated MW for a few years. But in the end, Cotto saw some low lying fruit and grabbed it. He has no intentions of sticking at MW.
Also lets not forget roach and Cotto bringing it to the the athletic commission's attention that sergio wheres a knee brace and trying to get it banned. Looked pretty cheap and desperate.