By Dan Ambrose: Undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) feels that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) got some aspects of his game from himself by watching him fight and studying how he moves. Mayweather sees Pacquiao as having learned from him.
Mayweather told AP “I think Miguel Cotto has been watching me for a very, very long time. Miguel Cotto had a chance to sit at the Top Rank [gym] where we both were fighters at [Top Rank], and he used to sit right there and watch me train every day, watch me box. Even some of his movement, I see it comes from me. I’m thankful that fighters can pick up stuff from me.”
Yes, I wondering the same thing myself. I’ve seen a lot of parts to Cotto’s game that reminded me of Mayweather and I had a feeling that Cotto learned from watching Mayweather how to fight. The only problem is Cotto must have been pulled away at too early a stage to learn enough to where he would be a better fighter that avoids taking so much punishment. Yes, I think may have learned some things from Mayweather, but he must have been paying attention only to Mayweather’s offensive side of his game because he clearly doesn’t look as if he’s learned much from Mayweather on the defensive side of his game because he’s still getting hit far too much or his own good.
Cotto doesn’t all that well, gets tired easily and is still far too easy to hit compared to Mayweather. Cotto needs to sit down and watch Mayweather fight because he’s going to need a lot more than what he’s been showing recently in his last few fights if he’s to beat Mayweather. Cotto thinks he knows Mayweather’s style and how to defeat it, but I don’t buy it. Cotto will take a beating similarly to the one he took against Mayweather Jr.
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