Cotto - Mayorga Fight Thread

[TitoFan]

Okay, I gotta say this, I am not a Cotto fan but I just don't understand how people can be confident that Mayorga is going to win. I personally have a feeling that Mayorga is going to win this fight because he will get in Cotto's head but this is just a hunch and I have no sound reasoning behind this. Sure Mayorga can apply pressure and make Cotto brawl and possibly try to turn it into a Margarito-ish type fight but the problem is that Mayorga is not Margarito(for better or worse). Cotto lost to a bigger well conditioned man who applied unrelenting pressure and was able to essentially walk thru his punches in Antonio. Mayorga is 37 and he is not well conditioned so that scenario is out in my opinion. Now Mayorga could catch Cotto with one of those wild punches but Cotto is a decent boxer and should be able to avoid the huge ones. I would love to pick Mayorga but with his lifestyle and his style in the ring he's too much of a question mark. I didn't mean for this to be that long but I am just puzzled at how much confidence people have in Mayorga winning.

Well... thus far there's only 3 Mayorga votes, and one of them is an avowed Cotto-hater, so that one probably doesn't count. So you really only got 2 intelligent Mayorga votes out of 15, or about 13%.

[chinchekked]

Okay, I gotta say this, I am not a Cotto fan but I just don't understand how people can be confident that Mayorga is going to win. I personally have a feeling that Mayorga is going to win this fight because he will get in Cotto's head but this is just a hunch and I have no sound reasoning behind this. Sure Mayorga can apply pressure and make Cotto brawl and possibly try to turn it into a Margarito-ish type fight but the problem is that Mayorga is not Margarito(for better or worse). Cotto lost to a bigger well conditioned man who applied unrelenting pressure and was able to essentially walk thru his punches in Antonio. Mayorga is 37 and he is not well conditioned so that scenario is out in my opinion. Now Mayorga could catch Cotto with one of those wild punches but Cotto is a decent boxer and should be able to avoid the huge ones. I would love to pick Mayorga but with his lifestyle and his style in the ring he's too much of a question mark. I didn't mean for this to be that long but I am just puzzled at how much confidence people have in Mayorga winning.

Well... thus far there's only 3 Mayorga votes, and one of them is an avowed Cotto-hater, so that one probably doesn't count. So you really only got 2 intelligent Mayorga votes out of 15, or about 13%.

I was nto basing this solely on the poll, what motivated the creation of that post was alot of the banter I have come across on other threads in the past couple of weeks

[Julius Rain]

Easy fight for Cotto. Mayorga is a bum.