Quote Originally Posted by Dizaster View Post
I think Cotto has improved in his style and I think as the general meaning of this topic, his improvement on style might possibly effect how long he stays boxing for...
One thing is that some of his defence is leaky..... I think Cotto fought very well against Judah,,, and Judah definetely put on a show and would have beat lesser opponents that night... But Cotto was open to a lot of counters that night... Judah took advantage of a few and had he had a slightly harder punch and could have taken advantage of them more often.. Cotto would have felt it..

I do think he needs to improve on those small areas.... This is where he is going to have trouble against fighters like Floyd... He can take Floy'd punishment better than Ricky.. Dare I say it he might box floyd better than Ricky did... But still, to beat Floyd, you are going to need to punish him with a LOT of good blows.... And Cotto may have to take a lot of good Floyd blows himself to get all of his off.. He'll take them well, he'll make his count...
But any fighter that matched up against someone like Floyd,,, you can almost gaurantee any of your weakness's will be exposed if you don't get them up to scratch.

That being said, he's improving... And when he beats Margarito and gets a matchup with Floyd then it's something he's going to have to look at even more closely for improvement...

The guy is a fucking machine though, and every single thing he improves is another metal plate being welded on the outside of the tank......
He is a tank, but Floyd is a finely tuned piece of machinery himself. Both of them are so natural and so talented that its scary, and you can count the mistakes Floyd has done in the ring on one hand in the past 5 years. Floyd is virtually flawless in the ring, Roy made mistakes, Ali made mistakes, Leonard made mistakes, While Floyd isn't as physically talented as them, at least not at WW, he definitely has the other tools that more than make up for his lack of power and size.