Quote Originally Posted by Howlin Mad Missy View Post
1. Bayliss is a cunt. Did I misshear any instructions at the start of round 12 by him saying to Cotto, take one more punch and I'm stopping the fight. No. He deserved to see out the round.

2. Cotto CAN adapt but he was his own worst enemy. We saw it in part last night and we've seen it before, Manny can be outboxed, he should have stuck to that and walked a decision, he tried to make it exciting and when two solid fighters start opening up anything can happen.

Cotto lacked the mental discipline to fight smart for 12.

Ali is held up as an icon for fighting the way he fought, anyone else do that and they're a runner or negative.
The thing with Manny is that he can be such a whirlwind that the gameplan just goes out of the window for the opponent. Cotto started well, but it all went out of the window in the second when Manny just became demonic. Then getting dropped in the third. To be fair Cotto seemed to be doing alright in the fourth but then another KD and the fight was over from that point on. Cotto was unable to keep it going for a whole 3 minutes a round like he did in the first. As soon as the combinations started coming at him, he seemed lost. From midway we saw the occasional decent jab and punches at the gloves of Manny, but there was nothing that seemed to be making any serious dent. I was impressed with Manny's chin more than anything, Cotto landed a couple of decent uppercuts and pounded at the body, but no response from Pac. It was strange.

Pac has moved up and not only kept his speed, but his chin and power has improved. It's a potent mixture of attributes. I actually think a Mayweather fight would be closer than I originally thought. Hatton gave Mayweather problems for the first 5 rounds. Hatton is slower than Manny, and lacks his punch variety, output and chin. Mayweather will counter him well, but I really don't know if Mayweather can keep him off anymore. Pacs work rate is so high and Mayweather really doesn't like to work all that hard. It's a fight that I just don't know about now.