Quote Originally Posted by p4pking View Post
I was just thinking about this, thought I'd post a thread to see if anyone could come up with another example. I remember when I first joined this place way back(I think 2005) Cotto was still basically a prospect, with huge doubts about how far he could make it etc. Obviously some people on here had been following him for several years before I got a chance to watch him fight, I think Corley was the first opponent I saw him in with. Anyways, since then we've seen him become a bonaified world champion and p4p fighter, beating Faglianni, Quintana, Judah, MOsley, and Clottey. Having now suffered two brutal beatings from that talentless blockhead and Manny Pacquiao, it's safe to say he is entirely damaged goods, at least I reckon it is. My question is basically, in a similar time frame, have we witnessed anything close to the meteoric rise and fall of another fighter? In the last six or seven years, name anyone who comes close.
There's no fighter from the past 6-7 years that I can really compare Cotto's career with, he's unique in a lot of ways. Unlike most up coming up prospects Cotto looked beatable from early on... he would get hurt, outboxed for a few rounds here and there, but over that stretch up until Margarito, and more so last weekend, he always found a way to win. For a lot of that time he looked like a very beatable fighter, but always proved to be unbeatable.

Im in the same boat as you, It's funny, I realized I haven't missed watching a Cotto fight live ever since Malignaggi, and that's a lot more consistency then i've shown in most aspects of life over that time period.It must have been Danny_G's presence here back in the day and his non stop rambling about Cotto that got me into him. And it's also funny that a lot of those fights I would pick against Cotto to win.

Ironically, i thought Cotto was putting together one of the most impressive fights I have seen in his career against Pacquiao, but it's hard to say where his career will go from here