By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the uncle and trainer for Floyd Mayweather Jr, says that Floyd Jr. would whip Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KO’s) and take his WBC middleweight title off of him if they were to fight again. Roger feels that their previous fight in 2012 wasn’t even close, and that was with Floyd Jr intentionally fighting Cotto’s fight in order to make it a more crowd pleasing fight for the fans.
Floyd Jr didn’t want to go out there and make Cotto miss all night long to make him look really bad the way he could have done.
“If they fought for the middleweight title, he’d [Mayweather Jr] beat him [Cotto] again,” Roger said to Hustleboss.com. “Floyd has too much skill for him. If he [Bob Arum] offered enough money, Floyd could whoop his [expletive] again. He’s [Cotto] not as good as they say he is. He got his [expletive] whooped [the last time he fought Floyd Jr.”
Roger brings up a good point about Mayweather Jr having too much skills for the 5’7″ Cotto. We saw exactly that in their fight in 2012 with Mayweather dominated Cotto with his pin point shots, and his beautiful combination punching. And this was with Mayweather taking it easy on him by fighting him fight in order to make it more interesting for the boxing fans to watch.
If Mayweather were to give Cotto the opportunity to fight him, it would give the 33-year-old Cotto the ideal cash out fight to end his career on. His trainer Freddie Roach says that Cotto has three fights left in him with his career, but with the money he’d get against Mayweather, Cotto could save himself the trouble of taking the other two fights and just retire on that one fight. Of course, it would be up to Bob Arum whether the fight could take place because he would need to waive a big roll of green stuff under the nose of Mayweather for the fight to be worthwhile for him to take this.
Mayweather doesn’t really need the Cotto fight for his legacy because he’s already whipped Cotto once, and doing it again won’t matter one bit. It would be just another dominating performance by Mayweather. But I have my doubts whether boxing fans would be interested in seeing these two fight again because fans already know ahead of time what the results would be in a second fight. As far as Cotto being a different fighter now that Roach is his trainer, I don’t believe that for a second.
The Cotto that we saw last Saturday night was the same Cotto that Emanuel Steward and Pedro Diaz trained. There’s no difference at all from what I can see. The only difference is that Cotto has faced two vulnerable fighters in his last two fights in Delvin Rodriguez and Sergio Martinez. These are the same guys that Cotto would have beaten with Diaz and Steward training him if Martinez was as old as injury plagued as we saw last Saturday night.
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