Miguel cotto is overrated

[IceTrayDaGang]

cotto is a great boxer but it just seems like he struggle with pressure fighters that can take a punch... pac said cotto hit hard but im surprise why cotto cant keep these pressure fighters off of him, he pretty much hit marg with everything he has and marg was still coming forward ... cotto also has shiiet stamina so that doesnt help either. but against a defensive and slow face fighter, that's where cotto shine. even tho he loss to floyd, he actually did very well.

[joesaiditstrue]

Good fighter, definitely overrated though. I was a big fan of his during his prime, but his weaknesses were always there, Manny and Marg really exposed them (weaknesses being no right hand, suspect stamina)

[HandsofIron]

Now I Like Cotto as a fighter, but he's lost more career defining fights than won. imo he's overrated. Here's why
1. Lost to Floyd
2. Lost to Canelo
3. Lost to Pac
4. Lost to Margarito(No proof of plaster just assumption)
5. Got a Robbery win against Shane Mosley(Went to hospital after)
6. Was getting tortured by Zab who had 4 losses at the time
7. Went life and death with Torres
8. Beat an out of prime Sergio Martinez
9. Almost got ko'd by Chop Chop
10. Beating a undefeated Pillow punching Malignaggi + Redeeming his first loss to Margarito were his Most significant wins

I JUST DON'T SEE THE GREATNESS SMH WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK???

I wouldn't say overrated, Cotto just didn't live up to his max potential.

Cotto was on a hot streak and it culminated with the Mosley win.

It all went downhill with that beating he took in that first Margarito fight (am still baffled how he lost to such a low level opponent in Margz) and he was never the same fighter again.

[QueensburyRules]

Now I Like Cotto as a fighter, but he's lost more career defining fights than won. imo he's overrated. Here's why
1. Lost to Floyd
2. Lost to Canelo
3. Lost to Pac
4. Lost to Margarito(No proof of plaster just assumption)
5. Got a Robbery win against Shane Mosley(Went to hospital after)
6. Was getting tortured by Zab who had 4 losses at the time
7. Went life and death with Torres
8. Beat an out of prime Sergio Martinez
9. Almost got ko'd by Chop Chop
10. Beating a undefeated Pillow punching Malignaggi + Redeeming his first loss to Margarito were his Most significant wins

I JUST DON'T SEE THE GREATNESS SMH WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK???

- - OP overrates his his own relevance to boxing.

[joseph5620]

Now I Like Cotto as a fighter, but he's lost more career defining fights than won. imo he's overrated. Here's why
1. Lost to Floyd
2. Lost to Canelo
3. Lost to Pac
4. Lost to Margarito(No proof of plaster just assumption)
5. Got a Robbery win against Shane Mosley(Went to hospital after)
6. Was getting tortured by Zab who had 4 losses at the time
7. Went life and death with Torres
8. Beat an out of prime Sergio Martinez
9. Almost got ko'd by Chop Chop
10. Beating a undefeated Pillow punching Malignaggi + Redeeming his first loss to Margarito were his Most significant wins

I JUST DON'T SEE THE GREATNESS SMH WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK???

Stopped reading after that.

[IronDanHamza]

To say Shane Mosley was robbed against Cotto is just preposterous and no where even close to reality.

[dan_cov]

Underrated if anything, a very good fighter who fought the best, certainly a whole heap better than the trash that tends to get praised and even put on P4P lists currently.

He was a real one & fought a lot of fighters who was wrong for him stylistically, he gets a lot more props from me daring to be great than these goofs of today who sit around preserving their '0' do that is for sure.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Holy necropost, Batman...

Why are we bringing a 6 year old troll thread back?

[real raw]

Thats a huge understatement. Sergio wasnt just old and past it, he literally could barely walk, he went into the fight with major knee problems and was ***ing limping around trying to fight near prime cotto. Sergio's team should have postponed the fight but they wanted to cash out.

Also cotto had the same struggles in his margo rematch as the first fight, he got lucky that margo had a broken unhealed eye socket for him to target. I think cotto would have lost the rematch without an eye socket to target.

Two of his biggest wins are against guys with severe injuries before the fight even started. Then hes got the mosley 'win' which was a draw or loss. Whats his real best win, jab judah?

Sergio had a cash grab, but that was Cotto's fault how? Sergio shouldn't even have been medically cleared to fight.

[ELPacman]

Cotto was simply exciting to watch and there is nothing wrong with that. I'd take rewatching Cotto's career a thousand times over rewatching Mayweather's to put some comparison out there.

Cotto was for me anyways a higher level Gatti. Both were brave as f**k and would go out on their shield fighting till the end. Cotto was one of those guys in a tough spot. He was absolutely brutalizing all the competition at around 140lbs, but once he stepped up and eventually moved to 147lbs, things got tougher for him. I don't think he had the same debilitating power as he did at 140lbs. His 140lbs streak was freakish at that time. He was disfiguring almost all his opponents faces, even did enough damage that Bronco dude quit from his arms being too sore. At 147lbs, the power wasn't the same. That is where he also had his toughest competition.

Watching him face Zab live in NYC will also be probably the greatest fight I've witness live. The energy in that arena was nuts.