odlh:"pacquiao couldnt have hurt me"

[Gandalf]

Delahoya was a punching bag, and Pac was seemingly cutting him down step by step, but there was no sign of huge one punch knock out power in that fight. It was more an accumulation of buzzsaw combinations.

I'm not convinced that Pac is a big puncher at the higher weights, despite what happened to Hatton. Hatton has been getting hurt a lot in recent fights. Collazo is no puncher and he rocked Hatton. Lazcano wobbled him twice and Mayweather got him out of there. It seems Hattons conditioning and ability to eat punches with his face has led to him becoming progressively less resilient and it culminated in the Pac fiasco.

I don't think Pac is going to be able to stop Cotto. Certainly nothing like the Hatton fight.

I just saw the hbo replay bact to back of pac-dlh & cotto-clottey, the speed difference is too much for cottoto overcome. Pac by domination stoppage again.

Perhaps.Perhaps not. Cotto did look somewhat sluggish against Clottey and Pac is extremely quick, but I think Cotto can make this a very good fight if he can keep it technical. Marquez is significantly slower than Pac, but he was able to time him well. Cotto will be looking to do the same thing. Barrera/Pac 2 is another template of how it should be done. Barrera didn't have enough output or power to trouble Pac, but with Cotto being much bigger and stronger I can see Cotto taking more risks and hurting Pac when he does so.

A lot of variables concerning this bout, a fascinating match up. I can't wait.