Roger Mayweather: All Cotto can do is punch; he ain’t that skilled
February 16th, 2012
By Dan Ambrose: Trainer Roger Mayweather isn’t hardly impressed with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and doesnt see him as having anything to worry his nephew Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th when Cotto and Floyd meet up at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Roger speaks the truth here. All the fighters can punch, not just Cotto. If he can’t hit Mayweather then it really doesn’t matter whether Cotto can punch or not because he won’t be hitting anything in this fight. Mayweather is too quick for him, and Cotto will be forced to lighten up on his punches in order to make contact with anything.
Roger said that Cotto’s power will be pretty much meaningless in this fight because he won’t be able to hit anything with his shots. That’s the problem he’s going to have. Cotto has become spoiled in his last three fights because his promoter Bob Arum has matched him against soft opposition since the lambasting Cotto took in the Pacquiao loss. But brutal reality will hit Cotto over the head when he sets foot in the ring with Mayweather. Then it gets real and he’ll know that he hasn’t improved any and that he’s just kept from losing all this time by his promoter.
Cotto may have to try and box Mayweather is he wants to survive for long because he won’t have much luck if he tries to slug it out, because it will present Mayweather too many chances to land his counter shots.
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roger to say this about cotto,i think u have been hit in the head a little to much,little little money may mite need a new trainer da .
FMJ will simply out box Cotto. He’s too fast with better defense. Cotto will attack but get countered. Then he eventually start moving backwards shying away from the action.
Most likely Cotto will lose by UD, but if he trys to keep slugging he’ll end up taking knees and get counted out. This match up reminds me of the Corrales fight.
So in other word, Mayweather camp HAND PICKED Cotto because he does NOT have skills. Right? Correct me if I’m wrong…….
I’m a big Cotto fan. However I think this fight would be very similar to Mosley vs Mayweather. With Cotto winning about 4 or 5 rounds by landing big shots on Mayweather. But Mayweather is too smart and skillful to be beat. He’ll give you an wooping if he cans if not he is happy with countering most rounds and win on points.
By the way it makes me laugh every time I hear someone saying Mayweather is giving Cotto a full bloody face and his biggest whooping ever. Yes mayweather will win but it would be a typical MW fight and not a WAR…
@so you guys know it all
All you are is a computer thug…
You is a Mayweather groupie…
You probably eating your cookies and milk ready to go to bed…
You the reason why they have the no bully law…they was taking all your lunch money and sending you home with black eyes…
Say something…!!!
Mayweather is the best defensive fighter i see Mayweather winning by points. i agree with roger mayweather.
This is Roger’s good explanation why lil Floyd is scared of Pacman.
Cotto’s only footwork is backpedal.
“So u guys know it all” you’re such a brave young man sitting in front of your PC doing the talk. I bet you got beat as a young kid in school. Keep up your pathetic big talk.
Dam cotto walkin around at 170lbs, keep drinking beer it helps ur stamina, lol! Pbf gonna school this spic!!
U comparing Pryor to cotto and mayweather? Stupid, I wish I knew u so u could bet cash on cotto and I would rape u!!
Remember to keep your hands up at all times Cotto!!
“The Puerto Rican star is already thinner than usual. Cotto revealed that he never stopped taking care of his body since the Margarito rematch in December.
“He has not stopped working in the gym or running since the Margarito fight. In fact, he is below 170 pounds, which means that he only needs to lose 15 pounds or less to make the weight of 154 pounds,” said his press director, Bryan Perez.”
Interesting!!
Amen.
Cotto by KO
Roger.. please shut up and understand that cotto will rip floyd;s head out
floydie will just punch then run or 1,2 then run for safety coz when cotto gets a hard dig to the body or face and floydie gets shocked he will go down if cotto relentlessly follows up with a lot of shots..:d
Can’t believe that Cotto is being given no chance. Yes he starts as the underdog and he possibly isn’t the fighter that he once was, but if he turns up and performs at the peak of his ability then he gives Mayweather hell even if Mayweather is at his best. Mayweather as great a boxer as he is, isn’t as good as he once was, also when was the last time that Mayweather was in with anyone as good as Cotto?, id have to go back to possibly De La Hoya.
to all that dont know what a leftover is, im about to tell you. a leftover is when mayweather fights oscar and pacquiao fights him the very next fight,same with hatton and mosley.cotto is NOT a leftover because he went up in weight and has not lost a fight since moving up.now in boxing you are going to fight people that some fighters have beat before, but to fight them right after say mayweather or pacquiao has just beaten them thats fighting someone leftover. we can say pacquiao is fighting margarito leftover in fighting cotto because margarito fought him first. pacquiao lost 3 times some might thing he lost twice to marquez but you dont say hes a shot fighter.
Jab cotto jab, pbf has longer reach, u faag!! 72-67
Cotto just needs to jab. Mayweather hates it that´s why he almost lost to DeLa Hoya until De La Hoya decided to stop jabbing.
Marquez will get ko against those fighters a mention!
You were watching the wrong fight retard! !
Pacman leftover??. Please !!145lb and on the juice doesn’t make u a left over”! He say no to a 150 lb for a reason! !!! How you beat real welterweights and can’t even beat Marquez? ? How you explain that! ! And don’t say Marquez would beat clottey.cotto Mosley. Margarito.
WTF are some of these comments on here. Boxing forum lads not girls are us.
here we go roger the wife thumper before cotto good now just puncher same old bum talk from a toe rag
PEOPLE, UNDERSTAND THAT THESE FIGHTERS THAT U WANT TO SEE DEFEAT MAYWETHER HAS BEEN IN WARS. COTTO, MANNY,MARTINEZ, ALL BEEN IN WARS. EASY WORK FOR MAYWETHER
Well into the six figures and that’s fact. Could be more than what your parents make, or maybe not. But if you graduate from college, you can hope for the same. Bottom line, possibilities is not reality. Enonomics 101.
The Mayweather family is the Kardashians of boxing, Except much more g@yer and butt ugly.
When I see someone comparing Acadedemic Credentials and Economic threshholds, this tells me this person is sneaking access to his parents’ computer in their basement. If you have it, no need to flaunt it….
PEOPLE JUST KNOW…GET IT?
Bottom line, possibilities and reality are two different things. On the education, I probably make more in 6 months than you do in one full year. $40 million from $25 million, still leaves you $15 million short. No matter what other income that Pacquiao adds afterwards, he still $15 million on the table, so he will forever be less that amount.
Floyd wants to make more than his opponent. It’s not a comparison between fights.
When you say Roger “isn’t hardly impressed” you know that means the opposite of what you are trying to say. Just to let you know
All this scared talk is stupid, no one is scared of anybody….Floyd isn’t scared of pac man and vice versa. Its all about the money Floyd at the end of the day wants to show everyone he received more guaranteed money than pac
Sound like a child fishing for an excuse. Mentioning nationalities and these things makes no sense. You think that Floyd Mayweather prepares for Hispanics, different than he prepares for blacks and whites.
You never leave guaranteed money on the table, it will never increase you bank account. Nothing from nothing leaves nothing, and speculation is speculation. After June 2012, Pacquiao will still be less $15 million.
Stay focused and stop talking out of both sides of your month. I am talking about the first negotiations when both parties were at the table and Manny walked. Not the 30 second phone call that you a talking about which was last month and was only a conversation to initiate negotiations. If you want to define negotiations that way, than you need to also throw out all the conversations that Arum had with himself and not with Mayweather representative in which Arum claimed to be negotiations.
The world will finally see and understand why Manny The Farce Pacquiao” required Catchweights from his opponents.
THIS WILL BE THE GALLOWS FOR MANNY PACQUIAO!
Arum has fooled 90 million people with a farce as fake as fools gold. I am keeping the faith that the media forces Arums hand and puts “Pacquiao the Farce” in the ring with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in November 2012.
If Manny knew that he had elections coming up soon all he had to do was just agree to the random blood testing. It was just as simple as that. The elections is not a good enough excuse especially since Mayweather going to jail was not a good enough excuse for him to book the MGM. Manny simple walked because he was afraid.
Yeah and I guess it makes sense for Pacquiao to walk away from a guranteed $40 million dollar fight with Mayweather to collect just $25 million dollars against Bradley. Its called negotiations, regardless of what Mayweather or Pacquiao demands are, neither has to accept what the other is offering. That’s just the way negotiations are. But at the end of the day only an idiot cannot see that $40 million dollars is more than $25 million dollars. Pacquiao is not a good businessman, he left $15 million dollars on the table. No excuse for that, or is there.
The most obvious reason that Manny was never serious was during the first negotiations when he walked away and fought Clotty. At the time, that was only condition on the table that needed to be agreed to for the fight to happen. Everything since that time all the talk coming from both side has been nothing but nonsense.
It’s good that Mayweather’s team think that way. They will have a big surprise.
Bradley was signed for the sole purpose of fighting Manny, Bottomline. Say what you want but there was and won’t ever be any serious consideration by Manny and Arum to ever fight Mayweather. Arum pulls the strings and Manny is just a puppet.
Floyd’s uncle and trainer Roger said it clearly why they avoid Pacquiao: He said they’re astonished how Manny has come up from 105 all the way t 154 and annihilated all opponents. He said it’s never happened in the history of boxing. They think Manny has some alien power, and even if NASA tests him negative for alien, I doubt they’ll fight him. the whole Mayweather family is scared.
It was never Arum or Manny’s intent to fight Mayweather in the first place. If they were, why did Arum waste 30 days after the Marquez fight comtemplating another rematch, and we did not hear a word from Pacquiao during that time. Also the 50/50 split was a non-issue with Manny who said that he fights for the love of his fans and that he would fight Mayweather for less money. But as soon as Mayweather got Pacquiao on the phone, Pacquiao changed his tune and stalled again.
Well, we all can have our opinions and argue, but the bottom line is that:
- Floyd d*u*c*K*ed Manny once again
- Manny is taking on an undefeated, young, dangerous, at his prime, best available option
- Floyd is taking on a Manny’s leftover
Manny could have fought Cotto at the correct weight but ran because he could not get his usual catch weight. So Pac took the easy fight with feather fisted Bradley.
MAYWEATHER CAN BE HIT…SO Roger and Ambrose be careful for what you wish for
But that’s where we disagree. Shane Mosley landed those shots. Heavier than anything Mayweather ever took. Floyd turned it on, and destroyed Shane and never took those shots again. And just like Shane did in that fight. Cotto does the same. He feels a fight is turning south on him, he covers up, he shells himself. Punch volume goes down, and he backs away. Just like any fighter fighting Mayweather. Frustration builds because of the defense they turn on themselves. You have 20 fights that act as examples. On Cotto’s side. Take a look at his last couple of fights besides Yuri Foreman. He backed away from all of his opponents because of damage taken. The Margarito fight he still took damage and that was on the retreat the entire time. Floyd defense is such that he doesn’t have to throw a volley at you. 1-2 shots may do it. Or he could do what he did in the Ortiz fight and stand fight in front of him lacing him with blows. And we all know Ortiz is a powerhouse.
danny boy why is Cotto the only boxer you write about? I hope you don’t get paid for these horrible articles you write.
Roger should only worry about fixing his damn teeth. Don’t nobody understand a word coming out of his mouth.
whoever says that Cotto doesnt have a legitimate shot is buggin. Cotto has a shot. Floyd is 35, hes not in his prime. Floyd is the greatest but Cotto def has a shot.
What I’m trying to figure out is where you are getting this un-wavered faith in Cotto. Has he done something spectacular to suggest that he belongs with this super-giant
What’s the difference between fighters like Margarito and Baldomir. Count how much shots Mayweather took in that fight.
Mayweather weak ribs? … No ones even had a chance to test them, and he’s fought very good body punchers before.
Mayweather unstable?? Fight after fight despite controversy he always seems to be involved in, he comes into the ring poised and controlled.
Shane Mosley handled a younger Margarito who had beaten Cotto. Saw how that ended for Shane. Cotto comes back and fights fighter that has sat forever with a bad eye and stills takes blows. He wins fighting the only way he can against this fighter. On the retreat.
All Cottos gonna be able to eat is oatmeal after Mayweather knocks his teeth out
There’s the scent of cheddar in the air
First of all it feels kinda fat in here
Mayweather is too fast for Cotto and as soon as he starts feeling the counters he’ll start retreating. The real match up for Mayweather will be Martinez, he’s the only person who can match him with skill and athletic ability
Only way Cotto beats Mayweather is if Jeremy Lin poisons his Chinese food the night before
Cotto will only put up a decent show. All Floyd haters will have are memories of a few punches that landed before Cotto kissed the canvas. It will be similar to Sugar’s bout, where all people can talk about is one or two moments in the whole fight. Sugar was set alight, just like Floyd said he would.
I know that Cotto understands the dounting task ahead of him. If Cotto was beaten by Manny, split open by Magarito….how surely can he defeat Floyd Mayweather, the best boxer in the world? Even at his weight of 154, it would be asking Cotto to perfom a miracle and miracles existed in Biblical times only. Now is time for reality.
Cottos fight with Joshua clottey will help him with Floyd ..and can Floyd keep he’s hands up for 12 after because is going to be a war
The best person to ask about floyd is Ortiz. He was nailed with hard, precise shorts all nite. Cotto will cut-up and will retreat all night long. Cotto will not touch Floyd were it matters, he will simply be over-whelmed.
Cotto at 154 can beat anyone in the WW Division including many in the Jr. Middle division.
Cotto will win 2 rounds at most. I would not be surprised if Floyd Mayweather Jr. pitched a shutout.
FMJ by Unanimous decision…
Our arguments for Floyd do not emanate from the stomach and neither from emotion. Floyd has proven beyond doubt that he is the best there is. His style is next to non. His tecnical abilities guarantee his success in the ring. All in all, floyd will loss only on a very bad night, probably only when afflicted by a desease…never when he is fit and sound.
Floyd is a pure genious. This is what he does best, lecture his opponents about boxing. Floyd is light years away from his first loss, until he is 40 or so may be you can get him.
Even when you are a hard-core Floyd hater, you have to know deep down your heart that Cotto is in pure trouble. Cotto is at his best on his comfortable weight, but still floyd is too much for him.
Cotto will be fortunate to win two rounds.
“pac-fake you’re next”..
The fans can say anything they want. But…
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. ENTER THE RING UNPREPARED?
NEVER…EVER…EVER! NO WORRIES HERE! PACQUIAO…YOU ARE NEXT!
@Ricky colon…. Man look at a few of cottos fights lately. He gets hit he starts.retreating. Do u realy think he can stand the kind of.punches floyd cougyt mosly and ortiz with all night??? And he alreay gets tired. Missing punches makes I even more.tired floyd is a master at that. Oriz only landed 4 punches third round. Mosley has a roud he didn’t land a single punch. And this is with floyd going foward the entire time…. But u know what great thing about this fight we actualy get to.see who is right since its gona happen.
All of you boxing beginners think all KO’s come by a Mike Tyson blunt force trauma blow. NOT!
KO’s come most often from the punch opponents don’t see. A well placed punch, thrown quickly, and catching the opponent by surprise will do the trick.
Once a fighter becomes frustrated, confused, and not thinking properly, there is the best scenario for a KO or TKO.
Cotto is a good case for this to happen. A slow, fighter with the only skill of being a somewhat “GOOD” boxer facing a “GREAT” fighter.
Cotto needs to revert back to his style if he is to have any chance at beating Mayweather. He needs to go to the body and try and get this guy on the ropes and bang to the body. If Cotto is to win he is going have to be the old Cotto and let it all hang out. If Cotto tries to box Mayweather, he will get knocked out. Cotto needs to let it all hang out! Simple as that!
Floyd couldn’t knockout cotto if he had loaded gloves!!!!
He is not very powerful he uses super padded gloves.. and is cheap with his punches.. Manny beat cotto with aggression and every advantage possible and still couldn’t knock him out if bayless didn’t stop it cotto would have finished on his feet…
May 5th I pray to God mayweather doesn’t come with the wrong impression of cotto mayweather will not fight coming forward that’s cottos game and Floyd will not give cotto any chances unless it’s inadvertently and cotto cracks defensive shells and is pretty accurate with his punches to.. this guy is not Victor Ortiz, Shane Mosley nor Marquez…. This is Miguel cotto fearless and alot better then most think and does alot more then most expect
@eman…. U mean like how golden boy is gona have a portion of mannys purse…. 13% to be exact…. Cotto is not knocking out floyd if mosley couldn’t do itnhe won’t.. And cotto will be heavier but floyd wil be the stronger fighter and remember floyd has had the longer reach in every fight he has been in. Most people don’t realizw how long his arms are… He even had reach edvantage vs ortiz…. Cotto is gona get destroyed.
cotto win by ko ； it is not an upset becouse cotto is the guy with the 154 belt so it will be just busines as regular. cotto ko floyd in 7 rounds
FLOYD-COTTO FIGHT INCLUDED CANELO
TO BOOST THE PPV AND THEY ARE EVEN USING THE PACMAN, TOO.
PACMAN SHOULD HAVE A SHARE ON COTTO-FLOYD BOUT, THE SPLIT SHOULD BE 35 FOR FLOYD, 15 FOR SAUL AND 50 FOR PACMAN.
@DOM
EVEN COTTO’S A WASHED UP AND ALREADY A DAMAGED GOODS, LITTLE FLOYD COULD NOT OUTDO HOW PACMAN DEMOLISHED AND FLOORED A PRIME COTTO IN FASHIONABLE WAY.
I SMELL AN UPSET!
@dom I could care less who wins since I like both fighters but saying cotto doesnt have a right hand is funny. Cotto already got surgery and got that fixed. The last few fights esoeciallly margarito he was using that right beautifully. On paper tjis is a mismatch but mosley already warned mayweather that cotto is no slouch to take it serious. Some one wjo fought both guyys and is a boxer knows more than u. This fight is better than people.think
Reading this thread confirms to me that Cotto fans are 2nd most stupid to Pactards ” Cotto will mop the floor this time” LOLOLOLOL OMG Idiooooots..Nobody in Boxing beats Mayweather.
No right hand & can not fight going backward = 7th Rd TKO win for Floyd….Bank on it.
I like Cotto but Mayweather is gonna walk him down & beat him worse than he beat Gatti.
Mayweather is not the same as before. He is almost nearing past his prime. Getting to be 35 years old. Don’t think that he is still as quick & fast the way he fought 5 years ago. He is only after money. To add insult to injury, they included Canelo to the undercard to increase their PPV sales.
All ya saying ya aint gonna see the fight are lien to ya self…..ya gonna pay 55dollars to see the fight so stop tlkn all that caca
going to be a good fight still though great names
Lol…@hoeluva23
cotto owes ambrose some money thats why dan talks too much ish
And he still with his wife after cotto ate that pum pum….lol…..loserrrrrr!!!
I heard from a birdy that Ambrose hates cotto cuz I caught cotto nd his wife in bed….but the poor guy couldnt do anything to cotto….lmaoooooooooo!!!….ajajajaaaa.
I want to see what will be Ambrose excuse when cotto beats Mayweather……cuz the last three fights he said cotto will loose…cotto won nd he came out with excuses…lol
He will winnnn!!!!…then he could have dan ambrise slurp his big toe….lml….Ambrose is a hater that talk caca about all the boxers…he’s a loser with no life….lol
cotto is the best and come may 5th and he will prove it i have faith in him
cotto needs to win this fight and then beat pacquaio to avenge his last lost and that he should retire the best of the best with a movie to follow
The MGM is gonna be serving mayweathers ribs after the fight…lml….cotto gonna break them
Mayweather aint doing nothing! If ya think he will stop cotto ya must be out ya mind. Weather goes down 9th round body shot
Cotto is getting his last match before he hang his gloves.
both are great fighters it all depends on who is smarter in the ring and floyd is a street fighter hes very smart but cotto is a natural born boxer so he has more knowledge in the ring i see cotto winning
Floyd will prove thet he is the best there is in this sport by sitting down Cotto at his own comfortable weight. Manny will be next when he stops hiding.
Cotto will be facing the most talented boxer of his lifetime, he will realise how average he really is.
Whats up with you people. Be real, Cotto mops the floor this time.
Damn dan Ambrose did you choke when u slurped Roger mayweathers d.i..c.k? Lol…loser!!
Cotto gonna knock dwn Roger Mayweather lil bit of teeth he haves left when he see him at MGM
And dan Ambrose slurps cottos d.i.c..k yet again!!!…lml.
this will be an amazing fight but cotto will win
to mayweather: just make sure you’ll beat cotto or else chris willams will cry.
watch cotto shock the world
@ Big Flip
Cotto has always had poor footwork going backwards. He steps w/ his feet too close together and bounces back so slowly. That means he cant fight going back wards and Mayweather should take full advantage.
how come this drug addict don’t use tweet?
What the big mouth’s trying to say is “there’s no need to watch this fight”. This family of clowns don;t do nothing but run their dirty big mouths. Everytime they open their mouths, a ghetto word would surely come out of them.
on may 5th people will stop saying pacquaio and mayweather and start saying cotto everyone will see a great challenge for both fighters
Cottos foot work is way better then it was thanks to steward.. Cotto has nice timing with his jab he’ll be in the fight..
Cotto lacks footwork.
Roger is a clown lol he’ll see on the 5th of may it won’t be a walk in the park cotto will be ready