By Chris Williams: Trainer Pedro Diaz figures that the combination of him and his fighter WBA World junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) will be enough to hand unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) his first defeat in his career on May 5th.

Diaz doesn’t say what plan he has for him to beat Mayweather, but it’s probably something that’s been tried in the past and proven not to work.

Diaz said to Primerhora.com “We will take his unbeaten record on May 5th.”

It’s interesting to watching Diaz on video mimicking Mayweather’s style – or at least trying to – and following Cotto all around the ring like a pressure fighter. That’s not how Mayweather fights, and it makes me wonder whether Diaz has watched enough of Mayweather’s bouts to get a true picture of what he does in the ring. Diaz looks out of place trying to adopt Mayweather’s stance and put Cotto under pressure that you would normally see from someone like Antonio Margarito, not Mayweather.

Cotto showed a lot of flaws in the video with his squaring up constantly to Diaz and lowering his head at all times while fighting. I thought Cotto’s former trainer Emanuel Steward had gotten that out of Cotto, but it looks like it’s still very much.

If anything, Cotto is leaning even more than he was in the past and just begging to be hit with an uppercut or whatever Mayweather wants to land. Cotto looks like he’s bowing when he fights and this should have fixed by his previous trainers. Diaz doesn’t seem to be doing anything about it.

Another thing I noticed in watching Cotto train is he’s running with heavyweight Odlanier Solis on a track. Solis, who probably weighs over 250lbs, is far too heavy to be running with Cotto. Miguel needs a track athlete that can push him. Ideally, he needs a sprinter that can work on setting a faster pace to get that flab off of his midsection and get him in shape. Putting Cotto out on the track by himself or with Solis is pretty much useless because Cotto is just trotting around the track looking like an old man. They could at least get a track person out there once a day with Cotto and force him to step it up a several notches in speed.

I never like to see trainers trying to imitate professional fighters because they do such a poor job. Cotto is facing Mayweather, the best fighter on the planet on May 5th, not some slow old guy trying to mimic Mayweather.