Should Pacquaio get credit for beating Cotto at 145

[Cortez The Killer]

so, haven't read any of the other responses, but..

A year ago matching Cotto and Pacquiao would have been seen as a huge mistach for Cotto's benefit.

It's weird now. A couple weeks back I was reading on the Cotto forum and the posters there were saying Arum wanted Cotto to be a sacrificial lamb for Pacquiao. Whaaaaa?

If Pacman and Cotto ever meet, then Pac should get amazing credit for defeating Cotto if that is the outcome.

It's a big deal.

[KKisser]

i think people are giving pac way too much credit for the de la hoya and hatton wins. if those fights didn't happen i'm sure they'd be saying cotto will destroy pac even at 140lbs. lol

[Rantcatrat]

i think people are giving pac way too much credit for the de la hoya and hatton wins. if those fights didn't happen i'm sure they'd be saying cotto will destroy pac even at 140lbs. lol

not after the beating Cotto took from Margarito. prior to that beating, yes, i would agree.

in addition, absolutely destroying Hatton in basically one round at 140 - where he never had lost a fight before - is quite an accomplishment. and that knockout was easily a candidate for the knockout of the year.

after seeing odlh drained for the fight, there is a point in what you say, but remember prior to the fight, pac was the heavy underdog. many boxing fans, including myself, criticized odlh for fighting the much smaller pacman, and avoiding margarito and other fighters more his size. boy were we wrong.

[Dr. Steelhammer]

At 28? Hell no. Cotto is nowhere near someone's sacrificial lamb. He still so many things ahead of him if he gets pass Pac. But I can almost guarantee though, that Cotto will be the underdog in this fight.