Cotto: I’m going to beat Mayweather by working harder

By Boxing News - 04/04/2012 - Comments

Image: Cotto: I'm going to beat Mayweather by working harderBy Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto revealed his strategy he’ll be using to try and beat undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto told Max Kellerman on his Mayeather-Cotto Face Off With Kellerman on HBO “I’m going to work harder.” That sounds like a recipe for Cotto getting his face smashed in by Mayweather.

Cotto isn’t going to beat Mayweather by simply working harder. That kind of primitive caveman strategy works against limited fighters like the ones that Cotto has been fighting for the past couple of years, but it’s not going o work against Mayweather with him punching Cotto’s lights out as he moves around the ring in predicable fashion.

Mayweather has the hand speed and the boxing skills to make this a really one-sided fight from start to finish. Cotto can’t beat him by just going out and trying to work harder than him. Cotto will take too many head shots if he fights him like that because it’s not going to work. You don’t fight Mayweather harder if you want to beat him. You fight him smarter to hit and not get hit and to slow the fight down to a crawl if he’ll let Cotto do that.

Cotto is made to order for Mayweather. He’s the perfect fighter for him to tee off on and just clown for 12 rounds or until Cotto goes down. If Cotto takes the idea with him that he can simply work harder than Mayweather in the ring, he’ll take too many head shots and probably bleed all over the place by the midpoint of the fight. Believe me, the fight won’t last long if Cotto comes into the fight against the modern era Mayweather using a 1950s fighting style. That doesn’t work against quality fighters like Mayweather. It’ll work against Cotto if he tries to rush Mayweather.



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