Cotto vs. Pacquiao: The Aftermath

By Boxing News - 11/15/2009 - Comments

By Ibrar Arshaid: Now I’m not going to over the fight and write about the events that took place because I am sure that you all witnessed the outcome as almost every true boxing fan watched the great fight. So what we have learnt is that Manny is unbelievably good and more evident he has power out of this world. As for Cotto I’m not going to say a bad word, because he simply was and is not good enough and come up way too short.

He summed the night up himself by stating after the fight “I could not see where the punches were coming from. Manny is the best fighter I have ever fought.” I respect Cotto for having no excuses and so I believe his fans should also have no excuses and we all as boxing fans should not look at why Cotto lost but rather admire the talent of Manny Pacquiao.

pac65343It’s time for me to get something of my chest. This is only my fourth article I have written, my first article was called ‘Cotto vs Pacquiao: why Miguel Cotto is not the same fighter and why he Will lose’ and I remember the amount of negative feedback I got and the amount of people who ridiculed me. I really urge people to read that article because everything I predicted happened. I stated that Pacman would be the harder puncher and commentators laughed that of and I was right. I said the difference between the two fighters on the night will be Freddie Roach and I was right. I said that for Bob Arum to make this fight he must have known that Cotto is a shot fighter and I was right because it would be too much of a risk for Bob to put his two best fighters together as this could highly damage Pacquiao’s fight with Mayweather and I was right. We also know now that Cotto before this fight has reiterated his desire to leave top rank. Clever promoting by Arum he knew Cotto is leaving and he matched him with Pacman because he believed Cotto is not the same fighter and he has now milked Cotto to his full pay per view potential. I really advise all fight fans to read my previous article (http://www.boxingnews24.com/2009/11/pacquiao-cotto-why-cotto-is-not-the-same-fighter-and-will-lose/), in fact if you just type my name into Google all my article’s will come up and many of you will appreciate now what I have said in the past. I have no grudge against no fighter I respect all boxers I just don’t like being made a fool out of. And just for all my fight fans, I want to say to fellow writer Manuel Perez- Don’t embarrass yourself by ever writing again.

Now that is out of the way let’s look to what is next in the welterweight division. Pacquiao now is truly the pound 4 pound king, in fact in my eyes he is the best pound 4 pound fighter of all time hands down. Manny has a legacy now and an immense one at that. Just look at the fighters he has defeated in his career, how many fighter can claim defeating so many great fighters many of them who are legends, he’s beat Morales, Barrera, Marquez, Oscar de la Hoya, Ricky Hatton and now Miguel Cotto. When Pacquiao stormed onto the featherweight scene by stopping Barrera in their first fight who could have imagined that he would reach this far? Who could have thought even two or three years back he would beat Miguel Cotto. This man has defied all rules in boxing, his place in boxing history in my eyes is firmly somewhere in the top ten fighters of all time easily.

Miguel Cotto, I respect him a lot he has always taken the best on and that’s exactly what happens when you fight the best you lose. But he can hold his head high because he lost to a miracle of boxing. I have and always said that Cotto struggles against a fighter who pressure’s him and force’s him into making mistakes and that’s exactly what happened to him last night. What is next for Cotto? Well I personally think it’s not over for him he has a huge fight left yet in Antonio Margarito and possibly Shane Mosley. I remember before ‘firepower’ Cotto fans were saying Margarito should be banned for life and so on. But right now for Miguel Cotto’s career sake he needs that fight to happen to keep his career within the boundaries of the elite fighters. If there is a rematch with Margarito Cotto will lose again. I think Berto will beat Mosley in January and that will be my focus in my next article.

Manny Pacquiao will fight Mayweather because that fight is too big to miss for any of the two fighters regardless of the purse because right now in boxing Mayweather and Pacquiao are the best fighters in the world and they both stand in each other’s way to determine the greatest fighter of this era. I fully believe Mayweather will beat him and hopefully I will write article on that fight once it is confirmed. I hope you have not seen this article as a personal attack on boxing fans because it is not. And one last thing…. well done to Top Rank for an awesome night of boxing, hats off to Miguel Cotto and most importantly to the peoples Champion Manny Pacman Pacquiao.



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