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Tuesday 24 April 2012

Mayweather vs Cotto Online : Mayweather: Cotto is going to need a doctor after I open him up


By Dan Ambrose: Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t care in the least that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s trainer Pedro Diaz has a doctorate degree, and neither does Mayweather’s trainer/unclear Roger Mayweather. They don’t see Pedro being able to help Miguel on May 5th when he defends his World Boxing Association 154 pound title against the unbeaten Mayweather (42-0, 26 KO’s) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Mayweather said “I’m glad Miguel Cotto’s trainer is a doctor, because when I open his a** up, he can close him up.”
Roger Mayweather was equally blunt about Diaz, saying “It don’t matter. Cotto can’t get that guy to fight for him. That don’t mean anything. Don’t don’t mean nothing. It ain’t science that’s going to whup him.”

Roger is right. It doesn’t matter that Cotto’s trainer has a doctorate degree, because this is boxing and his book learning in other subjects won’t have any bearing on what takes place in the ring on May 5th.

It boils down to this: either Cotto has the skills, the chin, the power and the overall boxing skills to beat Mayweather or else he’s going to take a pound and likely get stopped again.

Cotto does well against the old ones that his former promoter Bob Arum set him up against in the last two years, but he sure did look bad when he was fighting guys in their prime in Antonio Margarito in 2008, and Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey in 2009. Mayweather is arguably a big step above even Pacquiao, and that suggests that Cotto is going to be in need of some serious help by his well educated trainer.

We know Diaz has a lot of different training routines that he’s putting Cotto through to try and get him ready for the Mayweather bout, but it may just be that they’re not going to be good enough for him to rise above his own limited talent. Exercises and fight strategies can only help a fighter so much when they don’t have the basic talent in the first place to beat a fighter like Mayweather. That’s just the way it is.

If Cotto was a slow runner competing in track, Diaz could train Cotto until he’s real to keel over, and he’d still get lapped when it came down to his races against faster guys. It comes down to basic talent, and I just don’t see Diaz as being much if any help to Cotto in this fight. He’s good for him going into the fight in terms of motivation, but on May 5th it’ll amount to the same thing if Cotto was being trained by someone else. He’s going to lose and lose big. That’s way I see it.

source: boxing news24.com