By Dan Ambrose: It’s going to be tough for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto to come up with a good plan that he can utilize to bring undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. to his knees on May 5th in their huge HBO televised pay-per-view bout at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto has always been a really basic fighter with only a couple of ideas that he uses in his fights to get wins.
Cotto vs. Mayweather
The other side of Floyd Mayweather Jr.
By John F. McKenna (McJack): Undefeated superstar World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) is perhaps the most gifted fighter of his generation. Floyd is unquestionably the most talented defensive fighter currently active and arguably the greatest defensive boxer of all time. He is also an intelligent and extremely complex individual.
Cracking The Philly Shell: Why Miguel Cotto Has the Arsenal to Beat Floyd Mayweather
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Cotto has to get to Mayweather early in the fight before the cuts start
By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) is going to be a race against time in his May 5th fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s). Cotto has to get his licks in early while his tender and badly scarred skin is still holding up, because the longer the fight goes the bigger the chance that Cotto will be bleeding in multiple areas on his face. We’re talking both eyes, nose, lips and possibly the cheek or one of his ears.
Steward: Cotto will have problems against Mayweather
By Dan Ambrose: Emanuel Steward, the former trainer for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s), feels that the 31-year-old Cotto will have to fight a very carefully planned fight for him to have success in his May 5th match against undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cotto needs to raise his game to beat Mayweather
By Dan Ambrose: After two consecutive years of benefiting from the soft matchmaking from his former promoter Bob Arum, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) will finally be stepping out into the real world to defend his title against arguably the best fighter he’s ever faced before in unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cotto needs Plans A-D to try and beat Mayweather
By Dan Ambrose: One of the biggest criticisms made against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) is the fact that he fights pretty much in one gear and one style. There really isn’t a Plan B, C, D or E. Cotto is kind of a what you see is what you get fighter. He’s like an actor who is playing himself in every role without changing characters because he can’t change; he’s not capable of doing it for whatever reason. Cotto fights undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th in a fight where Cotto it’s absolutely essential that he be able to change gears to adjust to the things Mayweather Jr. is doing in the ring.
Cotto doesn’t have much of a chance against Mayweather
By Dan Ambrose: We saw what happened to Juan Manuel Lopez last weekend with him predictably getting whipped by WBO featherweight champion Orlando Salido in Puerto Rico. Pretty much the entire world saw Lopez losing the fight going into it and that’s what happened. Now it’s WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s turn to get beaten up and stopped when he faces his best opponent of his career Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5th.
Cotto will have to get to Mayweather early to win
By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) won’t have much time to try and figure out unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) on May 5th in their Las Vegas based fight, as Mayweather Jr. will do a clinic on Cotto is he’s not done anything magical by that point in the fight. Mayweather Jr. has been warming up kind of slowly lately, perhaps due to his increasing age now that’s in his mid-30s.
Mayweather plans on ending Cotto’s short reign as WBA strap holder
By Dan Ambrose: Unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 25 KO’s) came out with both barrels blazing at today’s press conference in Puerto Rico with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) to promote their May 5th fight at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather basically said he’s going to beat Cotto, take his World Boxing Association strap that Cotto won against a fellow Top Rank fighter Yuri Foreman back in June 2010.