
Originally Posted by
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
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