Cotto will be another easy win for Mayweather, says Jeff M

By Boxing News - 01/27/2015 - Comments

cotto4345By Chris Williams: Floyd Mayweather Jr’s uncle Jeff Mayweather sees WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) as no problem for Mayweather Jr to beat a second time if the two of them wind up facing each other on May 2nd instead of Mayweather facing Manny Pacquiao.

To be sure, Jeff would like to see Mayweather face Pacquiao rather than Cotto, because he sees that as the fight that boxing fans want to see most of all, but if Floyd Jr does face Cotto, he sees it as a fairly cut and dried mismatch this time around.

Jeff doesn’t see Mayweather giving the 34-year-old Cotto any chances this time to ref up his offense like in their previous fight in 2012 when Mayweather seemed to handicap himself on purpose in order to make the fight more competitive.

If you remember that fight once Mayweather started using movement in the 9th round, he had Cotto all locked up and unable to get his shots off. It was actually an easier fight for Mayweather from rounds 9 through 12 than it was for him in his last two bouts against the tough as nails Marcos Maidana.

“It would be another easy win for Floyd, that’s all,” Jeff said to HustleBoss.com. “I think that would be a disappointment for the public because that’s the public’s demand, but it’s one of those situations where you can’t force a guy to fight you. I know that Bob [Arum] has something to do with the fight not happening.”

I totally agree with Jeff. Cotto will be a very easy fight for Mayweather the second time around, because he’s now trained by Freddie Roach, and you can bet Roach will be working to get under Mayweather’s skin the entire run-up to the fight.

This in turn will lead Mayweather to want to clown Cotto like he did Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for 12 rounds instead of him having mercy on him by standing perfectly still so that Cotto has a fighting chance. Further, with Cotto having put more muscle on and weighing in the 160s, Mayweather isn’t going to want to take chances with him by allowing him to land his shots.

Cotto is totally committed to throwing his powerful left hooks now at any chance he can get, and Mayweather couldn’t afford to let the Puerto Rican star land those kinds of punches against him. That’s why it would be a much different fight than in the first fight three years ago. Mayweather will likely stay on the move for the entire 12 rounds, and have Cotto hitting air.

Mayweather isn’t the one that created an end of the month deadline. That was Pacquiao, and that deadline could very well cause the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight to end up dead in the water if the negotiations aren’t completed by then.

I’m sure Showtime and HBO are both doing their best to try and wrap up their part of the negotiations in time to make Pacquiao’s deadline, but if they’re not done by then, we’re still going to see Pacquiao walk away unless he can be convinced by his promoter Arum or some other cooler heads to stick it out with the negotiations.



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