Joshua Clottey vs. Miguel Cotto welter unification fight, who will win?

[Kel]

I pick the tough defense minded Clottey over Cotto primarily on the basis of their respective performances against their common opponents in Margacheato and Judah...

Cotto quits against Margo in the 11th round while Clottey took Margo to a close UD loss...

Judah quits against Clottey in the 9th round while Cotto TKOs Judah in the 11th...

Clottey is also much bigger than Cotto...
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Oh you missed one...........Cotto beat Mosley who knocked out Margarito MINUS his plaster wraps.

Mosley is NOT a common opponent of Clottey and Cotto... Mosley and Clottey has to fight yet...

I think Margo and Judah are the only common opponents of Clottey and Cotto...
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Never said he was but I'm saying it anyway. Your using performances of Margarito, a proven cheat, as some kind of measuring stick to how this fight would pan out.

Margo, without his plaster, had no confidence in his punches againsed Shane.

[HattonTheHammer]

Dissapointed this is taking place as i was rather hoping they`d throw cintron in with cotto solely for my amusement

[Hunter]

No shame in getting rocked by Judah, the guy had thunder in his left hand....he even legitimately knocked down mayweather, (mayweather's glove touched the canvas but was ruled a slip).

That being said, Judah did quit in the Clottey fight....

[XaduBoxer]

Oh you missed one...........Cotto beat Mosley who knocked out Margarito MINUS his plaster wraps.

Mosley is NOT a common opponent of Clottey and Cotto... Mosley and Clottey has to fight yet...

I think Margo and Judah are the only common opponents of Clottey and Cotto...
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Never said he was but I'm saying it anyway. Your using performances of Margarito, a proven cheat, as some kind of measuring stick to how this fight would pan out.

Margo, without his plaster, had no confidence in his punches againsed Shane.

I'm talking about common opponents and you throw in the name of Mosley which is way out of the subject matter...

Regarding Margacheato, we can assumed he used plaster in both the Cotto and Clottey fights... The plaster made Cotto quit while apparently no effect on Clottey... Go figure that...
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[XaduBoxer]

Oh you missed one...........Cotto beat Mosley who knocked out Margarito MINUS his plaster wraps.

Mosley is NOT a common opponent of Clottey and Cotto... Mosley and Clottey has to fight yet...

I think Margo and Judah are the only common opponents of Clottey and Cotto...
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Never said he was but I'm saying it anyway. Your using performances of Margarito, a proven cheat, as some kind of measuring stick to how this fight would pan out.

Margo, without his plaster, had no confidence in his punches againsed Shane.

We can assumed Margo used plaster in both the Cotto and Clottey fights... I'm also using Judah (another common opponent) as another measuring stick... I guess Judah is not a cheat...
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[Mr140]

People keep brining up Mosley fight as if it was a clear win for Cotto one of closes fights could of gone anyway kel as for this fight. Cotto has shown he slows done big time late in fights in Mosley and Margarito fight what ever people say so who knows whats going to happen.

[Spicoli]

Im not 100% certain that Clottey has the mentality to back Cotto and keep him there.Can let off the gas at times.But he is a very strong,defensivly capable and a repectable puncher.Cotto should respect that right hand throughout.....and for gods sake Do not square up on the ropes!!

Walking the fence on this one.Seeing Cotto has come very far,added some smooth boxing and matured.Awesome jab.He might just turn this into a sharp shooting display for a 12 round call.Leaning that way

[XaduBoxer]

[Puya]

Mosley is NOT a common opponent of Clottey and Cotto... Mosley and Clottey has to fight yet...

I think Margo and Judah are the only common opponents of Clottey and Cotto...
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Never said he was but I'm saying it anyway. Your using performances of Margarito, a proven cheat, as some kind of measuring stick to how this fight would pan out.

Margo, without his plaster, had no confidence in his punches againsed Shane.

We can assumed Margo used plaster in both the Cotto and Clottey fights... I'm also using Judah (another common opponent) as another measuring stick... I guess Judah is not a cheat...
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Nope only in the Cotto fight. Only because how Cotto's face swollen up... that was nasty.. Mosley was landing harder right hands in Cotto and look how his face looked at the end of the fight.

[Mr140]

Puya taht like em saying first time he ever tryed it was with Mosley because tell truth make more sense wouldnt to you dude. Cotto has a suspect chin and poor stamina ant the end of fights and cuts easy. Mosley iron jawed hardly ever cuts and has great stam at the end. To me it would make more sense to cheat in Mosley fight he had ever thing Margarito would have problems with but thats just a thought there since were trying to say when he used the wraps my guess as good as anyones.

[Puya]

Puya taht like em saying first time he ever tryed it was with Mosley because tell truth make more sense wouldnt to you dude. Cotto has a suspect chin and poor stamina ant the end of fights and cuts easy. Mosley iron jawed hardly ever cuts and has great stam at the end. To me it would make more sense to cheat in Mosley fight he had ever thing Margarito would have problems with but thats just a thought there since were trying to say when he used the wraps my guess as good as anyones.

To me is just a plain situation of common sense. What I mentioned in my post earlier and that fact that Cotto was the favorite in this fight and it was Margos biggest fight ever. In the Mosley fight he was the favorite, Cotto already won vs Mosley and Mosley is 37 years already.


That is enough for me to believe he use PLaster with cotto

[XaduBoxer]

We can assume anything about Margacheato...

We can assume he used plaster in Cotto and Cintron but didn't used in Mosley (obviously), Clottey and Williams...

Or we can assume he used plaster in all his fights...

Your assumption is as good as mine...

[the_PRODIGY]

Cotto UD. Too fast for Clottey. But Clottey will be a threat until the final bell.

[Gandalf]

I think Cotto beats Clottey quite handily. Cotto is too smart a boxer for Clottey and will outbox him. I see it being a clear UD for Cotto. It's a good matchup after the relatively straightforward Jennings win.

[Mr140]

So styles make fights Puya and Mosley style was bad for Margarito i still think the Cotto fight could of gone Mosley way was very close fight. Cotto has been cut up in alot of his fights so just because he was cut up and bleeding does not sure surprise me in the Margarito fight.