I was disappointed with Cotto's trainer.

[TitoFan]

Corner? What corner? Coming from a Cotto fan, this is going to sound harsh... but Cotto doesn't have a corner. He has a bunch a groupies and "yes-men" and until he gets a REAL corner, this is as high as Cotto goes. Sad and blunt, but true.

[bikersk]

Corner? What corner? Coming from a Cotto fan, this is going to sound harsh... but Cotto doesn't have a corner. He has a bunch a groupies and "yes-men" and until he gets a REAL corner, this is as high as Cotto goes. Sad and blunt, but true.

It did seem that way to me from watching the 24/7 and the fight. Cotto needed for some reason to be the one always calling the shots and so seemed to have attracted the "yes man" team. I don't know too much about Cotto outside of his fights but have been involved in work situations where the boss only wants yes men around and anyone who speaks up about poor decisions is no longer around, even if they are very experienced and skilled. Eventually there is failure. And the Cotto corner between rounds in this fight to me was a perfect example of this. It just seemed to me that they knew their job was to do whatever they were told like through the camp, as Cotto seemed to have developed this sense of unrealistic self importance. Then in the fight no-one knew what to do when the pressure was on. Their job was to make him feel good about himself, that didn't seem to be effective in the strategy for the fight. Cotto couldn't adjust on his own and got smashed. At that level experience and results from a trainer are so important and the fighter needs to respect and trust in that. There was no experience or proven results from the trainer and Cotto seemed to want to do it all on his own.

[Nameless]

Corner? What corner? Coming from a Cotto fan, this is going to sound harsh... but Cotto doesn't have a corner. He has a bunch a groupies and "yes-men" and until he gets a REAL corner, this is as high as Cotto goes. Sad and blunt, but true.

It did seem that way to me from watching the 24/7 and the fight. Cotto needed for some reason to be the one always calling the shots and so seemed to have attracted the "yes man" team. I don't know too much about Cotto outside of his fights but have been involved in work situations where the boss only wants yes men around and anyone who speaks up about poor decisions is no longer around, even if they are very experienced and skilled. Eventually there is failure. And the Cotto corner between rounds in this fight to me was a perfect example of this. It just seemed to me that they knew their job was to do whatever they were told like through the camp, as Cotto seemed to have developed this sense of unrealistic self importance. Then in the fight no-one knew what to do when the pressure was on. Their job was to make him feel good about himself, that didn't seem to be effective in the strategy for the fight. Cotto couldn't adjust on his own and got smashed. At that level experience and results from a trainer are so important and the fighter needs to respect and trust in that. There was no experience or proven results from the trainer and Cotto seemed to want to do it all on his own.

His strength conditioner seems to be quite good, his fat friend seems to get the logistic task done too, the biggest problem is the main coach, the main piece of the board. He's a nutritionist of formation for Christ sake, how can you put a nutritionist of formation as head coach when you're preparing yourself for the Waterloo fight, especially when the coach on the other hand is a friggin mastermind? Between the round Santiago's work was ludicrous, it was more panicking or "relax, relax, it's good, it's good", no useful advices, nothing. I hope Cotto won't ruin his career with him and send him back to his nutritionist job ASAP and find a real good one like Ronnie Shield or Pat Burns.