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Why boxing world will be urging on the Pacman against Cotto
Miguel Cotto may be loved by his loyal fans in Puerto Rico but the rest of the boxing world will be hoping Manny Pacquiao knocks him out in Saturday’s welterweight title bout to keep the Filipino on course for next year’s super-fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr.
American Mayweather did his bit by coming out of retirement and oozing class against Juan Manuel Marquez in September and now, as he rests up and has so far avoided the temptation to fight Shane Mosley, we can expect Mayweather-Pacquiao negotiations to begin soon – providing the Pac Man wins on Saturday.
Pacquiao’s legion of fans are confident he will beat Cotto, the bookmakers are confident and his revered trainer Freddy Roach approved the fight meaning he must be confident, but there is a nagging doubt that all won’t go to plan and that is because Cotto is a classy fighter.
His only defeat came at the hands of disgraced Mexican Antonio Margarito, who was subsequently banned for fighting with illegal padding in his gloves, and he is a strong, fast and a natural welterweight.
However, since that fight he has had two mediocre contests.
Firstly he knocked out the hopelessly mis-matched Britain Michael Jennings in five rounds before claiming a hard fought split-decision against Ghanaian Josh Clottey in June.
But Pacquiao is a different beast. His ability to waltz through divisions and claiming world titles is borderline genius and, as with nearly all sports, there is no defence against speed, which he has in abundance.
Boxing needs a mega clash like Pacquiao v Mayweather and I think they will get it once Pacquiao knocks out Cotto in 10 rounds on Saturday.
PHOTO: Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines stretches before a workout in Las Vegas, Nevada November 11, 2009. Pacquiao will challenge WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on November 14. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus
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“there is no defence against speed, which he has in abundance…”
patience and perseverance is the antidote to speed and cotto has lots of those. still, manny wins this fight because manny will show what many people think he does not have – power.
Thats right Sparrow, just ask Ricky Hatton about Manny’s power
…..”as with nearly all sports, there is no defence against speed, which he (Manny Pacquiao) has in abundance.”
Well said, and its true…
…. and as always said: SPEED KILLS!
So fasten your SEAT BELTS on Saturday Nov.14, 2009…
On the other hand ALWAYS FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELTS WHILE DRIVING..It SAVES LIVES!
Great advice, Larry. We should have more Public Information Service blogs here.
Some people are saying that the Pacquiao-Cotto fight is a battle between speed vs. power. But for me, it is more of power and speed (for Pacquiao) vs. speed. Pacquiao has both while Cotto only has power when he fights Pacquiao. Against other boxers Cotto may have both power and speed but not against the p4p king.
they said de lahoya is bigger, stronger for paquiao to handle so as hatton, now what happened to them, if cotto think the same way and brawl paquiao he must think again or else the result will be the same like hatton. speed is not enough but with power he can crashed anyone who challenge him in the ring. when pacman knocks hatton and cotto enter the ring he will knock him too. I think cotto made a wrong decision on accepting the fight pacquiao is on the momentum of winning he is a speeding trian to attain the greatest fighter of the land.
When PAC was fighting at featherweight, many saw his punches are like the Welterweight. Now that he is fighting in a Welterweight division, his punching power feels more now a middleweight. SPEED + POWER = TOTAL DESTRUCTION for Cotto!
Jeddah,
The defense against speed is timing. Speed counts for nothing if you have no sense of range or reach. If Cotto is a classy fighter then he knows that timing, proper angulation, and range perception will be his best friends in the ring. Cotto has power and speed as well. It should make for an interesting bout.
PacMan is right to be a little less than certain about the outcome. Only a fool would enter the ring with another professional fighter and assume it’s going to be an easy win.
..go pacman…we are praying for your victory…becaue your vctory is our Glory!!!…. go pacman…pac them all!!!
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I think this is gonna be one of the most entertaining fights of the century.
Manny Pacquiao is at his peak, and Miguel Cotto, even with the loss of the hands of Margarito, has the power to knock Manny out, but Manny will be too fast… and too much stamina, the way cotto fights, he breaks you down consistently round by round, slowly, but that wont work against manny unfortunately….
” There will be a zero crime rate for the Philippines tomorrow. Cotto will fall like how Pacman did with Diaz, who was so much bigger at that time.”