By Dan Ambrose: Roger Mayweather, the trainer for undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr., sees his him stopping WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto on May 5th in their HBO pay-per-view fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Roger doesn’t even see any real suspense in this fight, as he already knows that Mayweather Jr. is going to do a number on Cotto.
Roger told examiner.com writer Chris Robinson “I already know what Floyd’s going to do. Cotto ain’t s**t! Floyd’s going to stop his mother-f***ing ass.”
Roger sees Cotto as being the same as Mayweather Jr’s last opponent former WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz, who Mayweather Jr. completely dominated in the process of stopping him in the 4th round last September. Ortiz fell apart mentally in the 4th round of that fight after eating a lot of combinations from Mayweather. Finally out of frustration Ortiz head-butted Mayweather Jr. This led to Ortiz losing a point and then getting KO’d when he wouldn’t stop apologizing to Mayweather.
Mayweather Jr. is going to work Cotto over and make him look like an overmatched sparring partner. I’m hoping the fight can go at least 10 rounds so that boxing fans can see Mayweather work but I doubt it. Cotto will start taking punishment and probably fall apart and end up getting stopped way earlier. If Manny Pacquiao was able to stop Cotto in the 12th round, then I see Floyd being able to do it in half the time like in the 6th. The only way Cotto survives into the second half of this fight is if he runs and doesn’t try to land any shots of his own in a pure survival oriented fight.
Mayweather has Cotto already figured out from having watched a lot of his fights. If Cotto is wise, he’ll retook his game completely with new punches, new fighting angles and a whole different plan of attack because Mayweather has got his number otherwise.
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