Do you feel bad for Clottey?

[Bukom Battler]

I do fell sorry for him. I thought he lost by the way, just and also felt he should have done more in the final couple of rounds.

An interesting point however was that according to Compubox Clottey outlanded Cotto by 222 to 179.

Does this prove the Emmanual Stewart theory that it was the flashy shots that won him the fight?

Does it back up Clottey in his post fight interview that most of Cotto's punches were not landing and were in fact hitting his gloves.

Again my general feeling was that Cotto won by changing his style by boxing pot shotting with the odd combination. Funny how Mayweather gets slated for doing just this.

[BoomBoom]

This is one of those fights I get the feeling that if I watch it again, It could look even more Clotteys fight. He did block a lot of shots coming from Cotto. He threw the better punches, by far imo and landed at a higher percentage. He threw a little less but landed more. Im sure in his mind he did win the fight convincingly. I scored a drw, but I definately want to watch it again. Good job by Mercante jr. too. He did a good job controlling a high drama fight.

[Youngblood]

I'm going to have to rewatch it also. The reason being, is that it seemed to me that both fighters, whenever, or atleast very often, when thry had their man trapped on the ropes and in trouble...would simple back away and let them out. Cotto would do it. I'd go wtf u doing? Clottey would do it. I'd go wtf u doing?

Anyone else see that, or did it just stand out for me how much it actually happened? I'll really have to rewatch it I guess.

[Fenster]

Clottey lost a close fight fair and square to a BETTER fighter. No reason to feel sorry for him.

The "robbery" merchants

[ElTerribleMorales]

I'm going to have to rewatch it also. The reason being, is that it seemed to me that both fighters, whenever, or atleast very often, when thry had their man trapped on the ropes and in trouble...would simple back away and let them out. Cotto would do it. I'd go wtf u doing? Clottey would do it. I'd go wtf u doing?

Anyone else see that, or did it just stand out for me how much it actually happened? I'll really have to rewatch it I guess.

Clottey blocked some shots but Cotto also started to loop his hooks around the guard and shoot the right between the gloves when Clottey was on the ropes, he wasn't landing devastating shots but he was landing, a lot of Clottey's shots weren't landing either especially when Cotto played the ropes, so don't know why people are bringing up the hitting on the gloves, let's be honest here, Clottey put up a great fight but IMO he never really hurt Cotto, and if he wasn't able to capatilize against a one eyed Cotto, in a rematch i don't see him doing much better, IMO if there's a rematch and Cotto doesn't get a huge gash like the one from last night, he would most likely outbox Clottey a lot easier the second time around, honestly looked to me that Cotto was the stronger guy out there, he would push his way to get Clottey on the ropes, and even if he didn't land it all, he kept his man there, Clottey against a one eyed opponant couldn't, he put up a great effort but IMO Cotto deserved the win, like i said i had Cotto ahead by a round, could easily be 2, no way in hell by 5 points, but a 114-113 score for Cotto is no robbery

[Deanrw]

Here is a post fight pic of Clottey getting his knee examined at the hospital.





Seriously though, it was a close fight and he did enough to earn a rematch IMO. He lost the fight by coasting the last two rounds. Cotto gritted it out.

[CFH]

Here is a post fight pic of Clottey getting his knee examined at the hospital.





Seriously though, it was a close fight and he did enough to earn a rematch IMO. He lost the fight by coasting the last two rounds. Cotto gritted it out.

[Master]

Cotto deserved the victory he boxed better and hit clottey cleaner

[Diane]

Okay, I logged in real quick to pm Bilbo, and decided to throw in a few posts. You know I have to regarding a Cotto fight.


No, I don't feel bad for Clottey, he has no one to blame but himself. He took some rounds off, and gave the fight to Cotto. He fought well, but he lacks heart, and will.

I have to say, I did lose some respect for him and his over dramatic bullshit. It reminded me of this......

Here is a post fight pic of Clottey getting his knee examined at the hospital.

And this was Clottey to the audience, as he walked around the ring after the fight.

[Diane]

Here just to show what I was talking about in my last post, Danny put this together for me.