By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) has had a good run in the past couple of years with his former promoter Bob Arum lining up weaker opposition for Cotto to turn his luck around after suffering devastating losses to Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao. Cotto picked up easy wins over Yuri Foreman, Ricardo Mayorga and a rematch with Margarito following his third eye surgery.
All those good things for Cotto will come to a grinding halt on May 5th when he’s matched against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s going to be like Cotto has been put back into a time machine and brought back to his worse fights of his career against a prime Margarito without an eye injury and Pacquiao back in 2009 when he could still move well.
Mayweather is going to work Cotto over with combinations, jabs, you name it. It’s going to be a full scale route with Mayweather teeing off on Cotto, and ripping him apart like a giant shark eating up a fish. Cotto really won’t know what to do. His trainer Pedro Diaz will try his best to give some useful advice in between rounds, but Cotto won’t be able to carry out the advice in the ring because Mayweather will keep adapting. Cotto will do well for 15 seconds in the 1st round and then get taken apart in the remainder of the round, as Mayweather adapts to what Cotto is doing.
It’ll just be Mayweather and Cotto in the ring, and his trainer won’t be able to save him from the beating he’s going to get. The biggest thing that Diaz can do for Cotto is to have a nice white towel ready to toss it in the ring to save Cotto when things get really out of hand early.
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