Could Cotto have ever won?

[Dark Lord Al]

Cotto boxed great in the first but when a ferocious fighter like Pac is on the attack he basically forces you into a punch-up.

Cotto must have got a big shock that he was coming off second best so badly.

Pac was simply much better than him. He basically beat Cotto in 5 rounds.

I have to agree with Fenster , lets face facts , PACMAN was just better in every department.
Im sure if Cotto had boxed on the back foot more , then Pacman would have adapted.
This post is kind of silly really , i do not conform to " IF'S AND BUT'S "
Fact , Cotto praised PAC and said he was one of the best fighters of all time , and lets face it Miguel knows more about it than the rest of us put together.

[Andre]

Cotto boxed great in the first but when a ferocious fighter like Pac is on the attack he basically forces you into a punch-up.

Cotto must have got a big shock that he was coming off second best so badly.

Pac was simply much better than him. He basically beat Cotto in 5 rounds.

I have to agree with Fenster , lets face facts , PACMAN was just better in every department.
Im sure if Cotto had boxed on the back foot more , then Pacman would have adapted.
This post is kind of silly really , i do not conform to " IF'S AND BUT'S "
Fact , Cotto praised PAC and said he was one of the best fighters of all time , and lets face it Miguel knows more about it than the rest of us put together.

Me too,
plus you are not going to avoid everything Manny pulls out of the hat,you box off the back foot and try and skip away and he will double step cut you off or turn step and launch.
While you are moving, he will have some weird generic shot there to meet your head while he is also bodily moving so
his shots are very percussive and the damage will just toll up through the fight until he can catch you at will later on instead of earlier as happened.

Floyd should get all the credit in the world if he takes him on because even he wont avoid all the shots. Its the most risk he would have ever taken at this later stage of his game.

He may lean and bend with the wind and come back with his own answers, but he will still take a few very hard shots ; well thats what we all want to see anyway Floyds skill under pressure.

Floyd wins first half , MAnny wins a few middle rounds, Floyd takes control in the later rounds and scrapes in a unanimous decision.