Ok because of my scoring mistake I had MOsley winning the fight, but I have Cotto winning by 1 round just to let people know, he wasn't using effective pressure in the late rounds, and that cost him the victory when Cotto started fighiting backwards, but truth be told Cotto might have outboxed him going backwards regardless.
However about Mosley it isn't just about size, and it wasn't just Wright and Vernon who beat him... Oscar who is only an inch and a half taller than Mosley and he outboxed Mosley in their second fight. Phillip Holiday gave Mosley an hard fight because Mosley couldn't be a pure boxer... When you see Leonard, Or Ali, or Floyd, or Roy Jones Jr. you see a pure boxer, its not necessarily the jab, but a guy who can really use his feet, and doesn't have to stand right in front of his opponent. Mosley said he was going to use angles against Wright in their first fight, but he wasn't able to partly because of Wright, and partly because he didn't have the footwork or mentality to fight like that. The height and jab was the reason these two had success where smaller guys couldn't handle his speed, but for true boxers size shouldn't as big of an issue as it was for Mosley at least against Forest.
Vernon Forest was a good fighter, but he was no Thomas Hearns, and I believe that Mayweather would be able to beat that version of Forest at welterweight because great boxers get in and out without being hit. Maybe it was because of Jack Mosley or maybe its his warrior heart, but Mosley is stand in front you type of fighter who doesn't do things like move and jab. You guys might say Mayweather and ROy JOnes jr. don't really use their jab, but Floyd used it very effectively against Oscar, and earlier in his career it was a center piece of his arsenal. Roy Jones Jr. was fast enough that his right hand became his jab, but he used his actual jab a lot to set up other punches.
Also Wacko, I'll try to find earlier Cotto fights, but I think his pressure was the key to him beating Paulie, and Zab Judah.


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