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violent demise it sounds that by your logic if mauser was shit, but harris was worse because he lost to mauser, then buster douglas was better than tyson! and zahir raheem was better than morales. harris is a much more dangerous fighter than Quintana, and in mauser it was a clasic case of a fighter losing a fight that he realy should have won had he prepared properly.
Here's what I don't understand: Harris came into this when I asked the question (still unanswered really)
who would Cotto have moved up to fight that wasn't filler? Harris if I recall correctly was a Light Welter that never fought at welter.
Harris was an example of who else Miguel could of fought at lightwelter, let alone at 147.

If were talking about 147 and remember were talking about a certain point in history, then he could've fought any of the guys that Mayweather went on to fight - Mitchell, Gatti, Judah...yet they chose to keep him at 147 and fight Randell Bailey

So, we can only summise that despite Miguel struggling with the weight that they knew he wasn't ready for that step up both literally and metaphorically.
We are still talking about the last fight though right?

So maybe I am mistaken here, but you're saying that at this point in time, he would have done better to fight

Mitchell - Lost 3 of his last 5, and is now 36 years old.
Gatti - Lost 2 of his last 3, and is now 34 years old.
Judah - Lost his last 2, is currently on suspension.

Bottom line is this, Cotto took the best fight available to him at 147.