Trout: I’m not running from Cotto

By Boxing News - 11/29/2012 - Comments

Image: Trout: I'm not running from CottoBy Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) says he isn’t going to be lucking to run from Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) on Saturday night in their big fight in Madison Square Garden in New York. Trout is going to meet Cotto’s attacks head on and not look to flee in order to survive.

Trout said “Once that bell rings it’s fight or flight, and I’m ain’t running nowhere.”

That could be bad news for Cotto because he seems to fight better against guys that run from him, and allow him to fight at a slow pace so that he can get plenty of rest breaks. Cotto never did have good stamina even in the early part of his career, but it’s gotten worse as he’s aged. Trout can expose Cotto’s stamina issues if he forces him to fight at a fast pace.

The noise level is going to be deafening at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, and Cotto is going to be likely fighting a little more reckless than he normally does due to the crowd cheering him on. However, this isn’t a positive for Cotto because he eats a lot of hard shots when he’s fighting at home.

If you look at Cotto’s fights with Yuri Foreman, Shane Mosley and his rematch with Antonio Margarito, Cotto got hit a lot because he came straight at his opponents just trying to blast them out without strategy. I see that as a product of Cotto being too energized by the crowd for his own good.

Trout is a pure boxer who fights with intelligence the whole time. He’s going to spot immediately Cotto’s over-excitement and he’s going to take advantage of it by jabbing Cotto in the face repeatedly and nailing him with straight left hands. When a fighter is running into punches they tend to get hurt and cut up a lot easier than a fighter that is standing still and looking to box with caution. The crowd is going to hurt Cotto by making him fight with too much adrenalin and that’s not going to be a positive in this fight.



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