Photo credit: Naoki Fukuda – By Eric Hernandez: Like the fighters last night there were a few different ways, I could have went with this boxing article. I replayed the fight in my head and I was instantly flooded with the image of a very broken Miguel Cotto sitting in his stool as he was planning to go one last round with the mighty Manny Pacquiao. I will not shy away from my prediction which called for a late fight stoppage of Pacman but I have to be honest, seeing Pacquiao in the dressing room all smiles and with that look of a cat that just ate the canary sent a chill of concern down my spine.
‘What does Pacquiao know that the rest of us don’t?’ I remember asking a friend who watched the fight with me. Well we were about to find out.
What the world was about to find out is that right now no one anywhere near Pacquiao weight class should be favored and that’s including Mayweather. More on that if the fight ever materializes. I read article after article on how Miguel Cotto was going to destroy Pacquiao. The more I read the more concerned I became on whether that could truly happen.
It didn’t take long into the fight to find out that this would be Pacquiao night. He floored Cotto in the second and while Cotto wasn’t hurt too badly, you could just tell that he looked weak and drained. Cotto could have hit Pacquiao with Margarito’s loaded gloves and I don’t think he could have hurt the mighty Pacquiao last night.
After the second knock down this one more emphatic than the first it was painfully obvious that it was a matter of time before Pacquiao disposed of Cotto. I watched in disbelief as time after time Pacman beat Cotto to the punch with Cotto offering little more than symbolic resistance.
By the end of round 7th, Cotto was starting to show the same wear and tear as in the Margarito fight except there would be no piece of plaster in Pacquiao gloves but sticks of dynamite that would explode in Cotto face time after time and Pacquiao saved one last stick of Dynamite for round 12th. And where after the stoppage, he threw the stick at the Mount Rushmore of Puerto Rican boxers where I predicted Cotto would go if he destroyed Pacquiao. There will be no bust on Mount Rushmore for Cotto, only the disappointment that comes in knowing that he was dominated by a smaller but yet better fighter. Today we hail the great Pacquiao. Bring on Floyd Mayweather Jr.!
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