Trout: My jab will be a problem for Cotto

By Boxing News - 11/13/2012 - Comments

Image: Trout: My jab will be a problem for CottoBy Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) has already figured out just what he needs to do in order to control the shorter 5’7″ Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) on December 1st, and that’s by jabbing him silly and taking advantage of his much longer reach and height when they fight at the Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.

Trout said “I’ve got a good bead on how he [Cotto] fights and I know my jab will be a problem for him, but I will have to put a lot of leather on him.”

The jab from Trout will soften Cotto’s features up and likely blind him with blood when his scar tissue gives way after three or four rounds of eating a steady diet of painful jabs to the head. Cotto tends to break apart when he gets hit any length of time, and perhaps the only reason he didn’t bust up in his last fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. was because Floyd wasn’t really using his jab.

Floyd was trying to punch with Cotto and this allowed Cotto’s face to keep from tearing up like it would have had Mayweather jabbed him silly from the outside. Cotto’s face still ended up badly swollen by the end of it and had there been another round, I think he would have been bleeding badly. Trout is a much different story than Mayweather.

He’s more disciplined and he approaches his fights like a scientist by getting a game plan and then sticking with it. Trout doesn’t let his opponents draw him away from what his game plan is for his fights. This is why Cotto is going to be in trouble against him because the southpaw Trout is going to stay on the outside all night long and fee him jab after jab to the face until Cotto starts busting up.

Cotto doesn’t fight well when he’s bleeding as we saw in his loss to Antonio Margarito in their first fight in 2008, and I can see Cotto taking a knee or two when that happens against Trout.



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