Rios doesn’t want to see Cotto-Pacquiao II
January 26th, 2012
By Chris Williams: Like a lot of people that have been speaking their mind lately, former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios doesn’t have any interest in seeing WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao fight Miguel Cotto again after seeing how one-sided their previous fight was back in 2009.
In an interview by Las Vegas writer Chris Robinson at examiner.com, Rios spoke his mind about the possible Pacquiao-Cotto II rematch, saying “It kind of sucks. Cotto’s done, I think Cotto’s done, He’s looking for another payday before he can get out.”
Rios fights for the same Top Rank stable as Cotto and has already been mentioned by Arum as a possible opponent for Pacquiao in 2013. But I do agree with what Rios is saying about Cotto being essentially done with his career.
Cotto seems to have been put in the shutdown mode ever since his loss to Pacquiao in 2009. Arum stopped matching Cotto against the younger dangerous junior middleweights and focused more on older or injured fighters. In his fights since the Pacquiao loss, Cotto has been matched against 38-year-Ricardo Mayorga, Yuri Foreman with an injured right leg, and Antonio Margarito coming off of three surgeries.
Even in the Margarito fight, Cotto looked to be fading when the fight was halted because of Margarito’s surgically repaired eye closing up on him. Cotto looked like he would have had major problems against a one-eyed Margarito had the fight been allowed to continue. Rios feels the same way about the fight as well, and notes that Margarito was coming on at the time the fight was halted.
Cotto will probably agree to fight Pacquiao at 147 anyway because there are few choices for him in terms of big fights other than rematches against Margarito and Pacquiao.
I think Cotto would be beaten by a lot of the top light middleweights in the division as well as in the welterweight division. He’s not the same fighter he was in 2008 when he fought Margarito, and he’d probably fall apart if Arum actually put him in with a younger junior middleweight that wasn’t physically impaired by a crippling injury or some sort.
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why you hating i thought you victor were cool or better yet too cool but your girl was hotter
ha,ha,ha………wow olbermann is still crying over cheaters loss lol…..fact#1 cotto wupp’d ur boys @zz, fact#2 no loaded gloves no victory, fact #3 ur boy is slow & a 1 dimentional fighter, fact #4 cotto might’ve been tired but was never hurt by margo,oh did I say cheater got his @zz handed to him.
Brandon who…..is this guy even in the best ten of the world not…no more comments.
Rios is the truth and speaks the truth. Someone is gonna get knocked out and its not Rios!!!
rios is a joke and will soon be knocked out
GOOD ARTICLE CHRIS WILLIAMS COTTO IS SORRY AND WILL GET A STRAIGHT BEAT DOWN ALL OVER AGAIN BY PACMAN I WOULDNT SPEND MY TIME WATCHING THAT FIGHT IT WOULD BE BORING TO SEE PACMAN TARE UP JOTTO
SAME SH.T WRITTEN ALL OVER AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
No matter who pacquiao faces, people in general are stupid. They are still gonna buy it and buy tickets to see it
Manny will face Bradley then will face marquez or peterson in nov. Floyd will face cotto at 154 people will think cotto has a shot but will get destroyed then floyd vs alvarez or Martinez in nov. Manny floyd will never happen.
Who cares what Rios wants. Last time checked he was still unknown.
That’s because Rios has brains. Who would want to see such a one sided fight again. I beginning to think Arum considers the fans are just plain dumb a**es.
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I HAVE BEEN READING ALL THE ARTICLES WRITTEN BY CHRIS WILLIAMS. AND I NOTICED THAT HE IS NO. 1 AGAINST OF MANNY PACQUIAO’S RISE TO STARDOM. MOST OF MY COMMENTS ARE BEING DELETED UNDER HIS ARTICLE BECAUSE I AM WRITING THE TRUTH ABOUT MANNY PACQUIAO AND IT SEEMS THAT HE DOES NOT WANT MY COMMENTS TO BE READ BY OHTER CONTRIBUTORS OF THE BOXING NEWS 24. THIS IS WHAT I FELT WITH NO OTHER APPARENT REASONS, BECAUSE I AM NOT USING ABUSIVE LANGUAGE. BUT SOMETIMES I MIX IT WITH JOKES JUST TO BE UNDERSTOOD.
Freaking sore Mexicans
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Great article!!! Totally agree
Great article!!! Totally agree.
Does anybody really think by fighting the same people over and over makes you great? NOT! I guess Clotty and Margarita will be next, than a fourth fight with Marquez when he turns 40 years old.
Say that again, nobody does. Been there and done that. No money will come out of my pocket.
who does when the fight that everyone wants to see is mayweather vs pacquiao
izzy i was thinking the samething
rios due yourself a favor keep your retarted thoughts to yourself i think about the time that i watch you in the weigh in it look like you where going to the pen looking all crack out
Rios must be Dan Ambrose boy,
Who cares what Rios says…. He is not the one fighting .
Is anyone actually gonna pay to watch this fight? Just they’re 1st fight, it’s most likely going to be better than this one with the way Pacquiaos been fighting lately.
Rios best defense is is straight coming forward offense and i beleive he has some dynamite in his fist.rios has heart and determination.
ill watch the fight..after it happens. ill see it on the internet bcuz i already seen these guys fight the first time. would rather order the fight if they were fighting other high ranked opponents
Who cares about Cotto fighting Pacquiao? I will be yet another sparing session that Cotto will be paid to loose…
Envy and the fact that Cotto beat his Cheater friend might be the main reason for his statement. Who cares what this street fighter thinks? He would love to be in Cotto’s shoes.
As slow as Rios, the Leopard Manny Pacquiao will EAT him alive in front of the camera. He is not worth mentioning here.
Pacquiao vs. Cotto II….I smell Excitement and Millions of Dollars.
Who cares whether Rios wants to see or not? No body cares. BUT, he and chris are going to watch anyway.
I think if cotto dont fight below 150 he can do a lot better.
I’VE BEEN A SOLID BOXING FANS,,,,LONG LONG LONG TIME AGO
I’VE SEEN ALL TIME GREAT SUCH AS ALI, JONES JR,
ROBINSON, LEONARD, HAGLER, TYSON, DEMPSEY,MARCIANO, LOUISE, DURAN, MAYWEATHER!!!!!!BUT I’VE NEVER SEE SUCH GREAT AS MANNY PACQUIAO…
YES MANNY PACQUIAO THE GREATEST PUPPET OF ALL TIME!!
WAKE-UP BRO!!!!!ARUM MAKE YOU WORST!!MUCH WORST THAN ME!!!!
Who F cares about what rios syndrome looking face think bout Cotto? What he needs to do is fight Gamboa and stop running away like a maricon What he doesn’t like is the fact that MC is going to make that money regardless and not his buddy Margabicho.
hey ive been sitting here all day but where’s the slave pactard’ fan’s?
rios an slave pacquiao are both retarded amateur!!!!
Who is Rios? Is he an amAteur boxer? Yes, i’ve seen him fighting before but he looks like an amteur boxer. He DO not DESERVE TO makE any comments regarding Pacman bcoz he’s still an amateur boxer,ok?Bwahahahahaha!
Manny is not scared of any boxer u know WB. his juz loyal to his promoter dats why he is where his at. U juz keep on hating we understand where u come from.brr
Manny is not scared of any boxer u know WB. his juz loyal to his promoter dats why he is where his at. U juz keep on hating we understand where u come from.
If Cotto fights floidie, Cotto is not done and it a good fight. lmao
Pit-Luk you a smart guy..totally true
I don’t think rios is that good. he is too slow. and the fighting style is bad. with cotto, I think he’s done already. eversince that loss to Margarito he is not the same fighter as he was. and he should not fight Pacman in 147…it would be another advantage for pacman who seems to have the habit of fighting dehydrated and beyond their prime fighters..
cotto would beat rios bad. and if u think hes done then ur mistaken hes only 31 he has at least 5 years left to make some money. but cotto should fight alvarez next
BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!!!!!
ARUM’S SLAVE WILL FIGHT THIS JUNE 9 VS ARUM’S PUPPET!!!!
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rios dosent mean nothing he is a time bomb waithing to get ko by a good fighter lol
i dont think anyone wants to see that fight. IT WOULD BE A DUD. pacquiao stopped being scared and just face floyd
Who cares what rios said. Like he said cotto wants pay day. Good for him. And those people accuse Pacman using drugs. Even the great Floyd jr can’t prove so what now.
fact #4, Cotto is laughing all the way to the bank with the paydays he is getting knowing dam well he has nothing left! he is just milking his name
Fact #3 why is Cotto still fighting? he is over and done with, he didn’t win against margarito the corrupt doctor beat margarito.
Fact #2 Puerto rico has like 2 champions left, so they are trying every trick and low down corrupt trick so they don’t loose like juanma is having the fight in puerto rico, yeah like there goin to give the mexican the decision!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fact #1 Cotto is a paper champion, he beat a guy to had the belt but didn’t beat no one for it.
I guess there planing on doin another Robery like they did with the bough out Doctor! you guys must think people are really stupid.
with the exeption of the halfbreeds of PR no one cares to see this mess
Though i agree with Rios; Rios better shut up n go to the gym and work on his defense… he aint got no leverage in boxing for his opinion t matter lolllest.
Now that Rios said that, maybe Arum will try another matchup cz Rios has spoken lollest..
Ive seen rios fight for the last few years and even when he has strugle to make weight he has won because hes one tough s.o.b much respect to him.and rios has fought some good undefeated boxers and he has been victorious,true warrior.Much respect to rios.
Bam bam is just mad because cotto cracked Margo silly for 11rds and castrated his fake villain persona. The cotto that fought Margo will beat manny gorilla back to Manila style if they agreed upon 154lbs.
At jr are you serious,whos rios you anint no boxing fan if you dnt know who rios is.remember these name benavidez jr,frankie gomez,tomik kameda and omar figuero just to name a few good future boxers?
who does? NOBODY
brandon? he was born just kick the a@@ of fakeQUIAO!!!
@jr. It doesn’t matter what he thinks, but for you as fans not to know who he is, is shameful. You casual boxing fan.
manny scared of this guy
WHO IN THE HELL IS BRANDON RIOS.
….who cares what rios thinks
brandon rios most boring boxer in history of boxing !!!!!