Cotto: I’ll beat Mayweather with power and pressure

By Boxing News - 03/28/2012 - Comments

Image: Cotto: I'll beat Mayweather with power and pressureBy Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) thinks he’s got the keys to beating undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) in their May 5th fight by putting pressure on him and landing big power shots. It sounds like the beginnings of a plan but one that’s already failed countless times over by other opponents that Mayweather has soundly beaten.

Cotto said this as quoted by examiner.com “I plan to apply pressure and apply power. It is going to work for me too.”

Cotto is going to have to apply a great deal of pressure for him to beat a top level fighter like Mayweather, because Cotto didn’t look all that impressive in his last fight against Antonio Margarito in the last round of that fight before it was halted. It looked like old Cotto to me with him starting to take hits and looks flustered. Mayweather is too fast for Cotto and is going to have ample opportunities to pick him apart, especially if Cotto is serious about wanting to apply a lot of pressure. That kind of thing works against the fodder that Cotto’s ex-promoter Bob Arum has been feeding him for the past three years, but not against Mayweather. Cotto has to come up with new ideas because just rushing Mayweather and going for broke isn’t likely to work. You don’t beat Mayweather by bum rushing him and hoping to hurt him with a big shots.

Cotto says he’s got his confidence back that he lost when he was beaten by Margarito in their first fight. If confidence was all that Cotto needed to beat Mayweather, then things would be great. But confidence, whether real or false, isn’t enough to beat an ‘A’ level fighter like Mayweather when Cotto has never proven in the past that he can beat an ‘A’ fighter. Manny Pacquiao made Cotto look silly and now Mayweather, who is arguably even better than Pacquiao, will do the same if not worse.



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