By Eric Thomas: Former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (34-2, 27 KO’s) is going to be considering his options and sitting down to think about his future after sustaining a 12th round TKO loss to Manny Pacquiao last Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, according to news from the New York Post.
For the 29-year-old Cotto, this is the 2nd knockout loss for him in his last four fights and the third fight in which he has taken a tremendous amount of punishment in. Cotto was taken to the hospital on Saturday night after his loss to Pacquiao to be examined. Cotto’s face and head was badly swollen from the countless shots that Pacquiao had landed in the fight, and many boxing fans felt that the mostly one-sided bout should have been stopped as early as the 7th to prevent Cotto from taking any more unnecessary punishment at the hands of Pacquiao.
Both of Cotto’s eyes were badly swollen up, his face was reddened and lumped up and his nose was swollen and looked slightly twisted from the shots he had absorbed in the fight. Although Cotto took an enormous amount of punishment in his 11th round TKO loss to Antonio Margarito last year, this fight seemed to almost equal it in many respects.
Cotto appeared to take more punishment in this fight because Pacquiao was able to land at will from the 1st round until the stoppage in the 12th by referee Kenny Bayless. Margarito, on the other hand, wasn’t able to connect with much until the 10th when he hurt Cotto with a series of uppercuts late in the round.
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Trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. thinks that his son, unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. could beat Manny Pacquiao, according to the New York Post. Mayweather Sr., who saw last Saturday night’s bout between Pacquiao and WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto, had this to say about the fight: “I think Little Floyd is going to whoop his [Pacquiao] (butt). My son [Floyd] is not no Cotto.”
Pacquiao is interested in fighting Mayweather Jr. next if possible. If the fight can be made, it would be a huge mega fight, one that would possibly break all pay per view records. Mayweather Sr. doesn’t give Pacquiao too much credit for his win over Cotto, because he thinks that Cotto isn’t the same fighter he was after his loss to Antonio Margarito last year.
Mayweather Sr. said, “Anytime you get hit with punches like that it takes a toll on your body. He [Cotto] took that fight and came back in another fight with Clottey and had a big gash over his eye. All that stuff plays a role. The kind of beat down he took (against Margarito) you can’t heal over that in that amount of time. You’re not going to heal of it because it’s in your head what happened.” Mayweather Sr. does have a point about all that. Cotto perhaps needed a couple of years away from taking on dangerous fighters like Clottey and Pacquiao so that his head and body could heal from his loss to Margarito.
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