Rewatched Cotto vs Pac

[JazMerkin]

I never saw this as a pick 'em while it happened. I think I gave Cotto the 10th round, I never really felt he was a threat to Pac. Part of this may have been that I was drunk & had spent the whole night telling my friend that Pacquiao was going to have Cotto up (he was picking Cotto & conversely saw the opposite with the first 2 rounds to Cotto). Miguel is a hell of a fighter, but he's always been a sucker for the uppercut & always looked in danger against southpaws so I saw this as a nice victory for Pac.

That's not to take away from Manny, it still takes a hell of a lot to have the discipline to beat up a bigger man & a guy as good as Cotto like he did, but I just felt it was always going to happen. Plus Cotto really didn't show Manny the respect he deserved & just like Hatton I got the impression he thought he could walk through it.

[HattonTheHammer]

I never saw this as a pick 'em while it happened. I think I gave Cotto the 10th round, I never really felt he was a threat to Pac. Part of this may have been that I was drunk & had spent the whole night telling my friend that Pacquiao was going to have Cotto up (he was picking Cotto & conversely saw the opposite with the first 2 rounds to Cotto). Miguel is a hell of a fighter, but he's always been a sucker for the uppercut & always looked in danger against southpaws so I saw this as a nice victory for Pac.

That's not to take away from Manny, it still takes a hell of a lot to have the discipline to beat up a bigger man & a guy as good as Cotto like he did, but I just felt it was always going to happen. Plus Cotto really didn't show Manny the respect he deserved & just like Hatton I got the impression he thought he could walk through it.

See theres your problem merkin, if you specialise fights to get drunk on your probably not gonna be able to call it accurately. If however you get wasted whenever and whatever fight is on then eventually it is possible to call a fight pissed

Apart from the knockdown i had cotto a round or two up going through 5-6 but from then on in it was all pacquiao and going into that last round he was a good 4-5rounds up. It was without doubt the greatest of all the pacquiao performances mainly because of who he did it to, the weight he did it at and how he went about slowly but surely tearing through cottos defence

[JazMerkin]

I never saw this as a pick 'em while it happened. I think I gave Cotto the 10th round, I never really felt he was a threat to Pac. Part of this may have been that I was drunk & had spent the whole night telling my friend that Pacquiao was going to have Cotto up (he was picking Cotto & conversely saw the opposite with the first 2 rounds to Cotto). Miguel is a hell of a fighter, but he's always been a sucker for the uppercut & always looked in danger against southpaws so I saw this as a nice victory for Pac.

That's not to take away from Manny, it still takes a hell of a lot to have the discipline to beat up a bigger man & a guy as good as Cotto like he did, but I just felt it was always going to happen. Plus Cotto really didn't show Manny the respect he deserved & just like Hatton I got the impression he thought he could walk through it.

See theres your problem merkin, if you specialise fights to get drunk on your probably not gonna be able to call it accurately. If however you get wasted whenever and whatever fight is on then eventually it is possible to call a fight pissed

Apart from the knockdown i had cotto a round or two up going through 5-6 but from then on in it was all pacquiao and going into that last round he was a good 4-5rounds up. It was without doubt the greatest of all the pacquiao performances mainly because of who he did it to, the weight he did it at and how he went about slowly but surely tearing through cottos defence

I'm afraid I'm simply not on your level when it comes to boozing Hammer. It's a once in a blue moon thing for me and whilst I'm sure it would eventually improve my ability to call fights pissed, it probably wouldn't help my training regimen

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't like I didn't think the rounds were close, but I had Pac just edging the first 2, & whilst I felt Cotto 'won' the 3rd, because of the KD it was 10-9 round for Pac. Then from there through to 10 all Pac, Cotto boxed nicely in that round before Pac took over again. I've watched it again since (sober) & had largely the same conclusion although maybe that's because I now know the result and see what Pac is doing with the result in the back of my mind.

[HattonTheHammer]

I never saw this as a pick 'em while it happened. I think I gave Cotto the 10th round, I never really felt he was a threat to Pac. Part of this may have been that I was drunk & had spent the whole night telling my friend that Pacquiao was going to have Cotto up (he was picking Cotto & conversely saw the opposite with the first 2 rounds to Cotto). Miguel is a hell of a fighter, but he's always been a sucker for the uppercut & always looked in danger against southpaws so I saw this as a nice victory for Pac.

That's not to take away from Manny, it still takes a hell of a lot to have the discipline to beat up a bigger man & a guy as good as Cotto like he did, but I just felt it was always going to happen. Plus Cotto really didn't show Manny the respect he deserved & just like Hatton I got the impression he thought he could walk through it.

See theres your problem merkin, if you specialise fights to get drunk on your probably not gonna be able to call it accurately. If however you get wasted whenever and whatever fight is on then eventually it is possible to call a fight pissed

Apart from the knockdown i had cotto a round or two up going through 5-6 but from then on in it was all pacquiao and going into that last round he was a good 4-5rounds up. It was without doubt the greatest of all the pacquiao performances mainly because of who he did it to, the weight he did it at and how he went about slowly but surely tearing through cottos defence

I'm afraid I'm simply not on your level when it comes to boozing Hammer. It's a once in a blue moon thing for me and whilst I'm sure it would eventually improve my ability to call fights pissed, it probably wouldn't help my training regimen

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't like I didn't think the rounds were close, but I had Pac just edging the first 2, & whilst I felt Cotto 'won' the 3rd, because of the KD it was 10-9 round for Pac. Then from there through to 10 all Pac, Cotto boxed nicely in that round before Pac took over again. I've watched it again since (sober) & had largely the same conclusion although maybe that's because I now know the result and see what Pac is doing with the result in the back of my mind.

i definitely had cott 2 up going into that 3rd and it was only from 3 that the fight seemed to change direction. The moment pac started to land big it was hatton deja-vu all over again and but for cottos talent he was simply unable to keep them out.

Cotto is far better on the back foot than hatton can ever dream to be hence the reason it went as long as it did but it was definitely as dominant if anything more rounded than the hatton win.