By Dan Ambrose: For some boxing fans of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), they see his March 12th bout against 37-year-old former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) as an easy win for Cotto due to his superior youth, speed and power. It’s hard to deny that Cotto has some significant advantages in this match-up. However, all of those advantages will quickly go out the window once Mayorga has opened up all that scar tissue that surrounds both of Cotto’s eyes.

Cotto is like the frankenstein monster with all the scar tissue that he has around his eyes from his many ring wars before and during his 10 year pro career. I don’t know what it is but when Cotto gets hit in the face a number of times, his skin tears like fine rice paper. It doesn’t matter that he’s had many of these cuts expertly sewed up, they cut quickly just the same. And the thing is, Cotto doesn’t seem to fight well at all once he sees his own blood and has to deal with blood dripping into his eyes.

It’s like Cotto instantly loses 50% of his fighting ability once the red crude is draining from his eyes, nose or lips. He just isn’t the same fighter once he starts bleeding like a stuck pig. With Mayorga, it doesn’t seem to matter whether he gets cut. The guy is like a programmed robot on seek and destroy mission. He doesn’t slow down for an instant and fights through the blood and pain. If Cotto’s advantages in this fight disappear with the first spill of his blood, Mayorga is going to be all over Cotto is going to do a tap dance on his head and take him out the same way that Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito successfully did in the past.