“Fighting Words??Miguel Cotto: Floyd Mayweather, Oscar De La Hoya or Bust

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by David P. Greisman - Before the title belts and the headline bouts, before the Puerto Rican Day parades and the Madison Square Garden sellouts, Miguel Cotto was a prospect fighting underneath the stars.

They were feature attractions. Glances at a developing fighter. Previews of what was to come. Nine fights into his career, Cotto took out former contender Justin Juuko. The night, however, was about the rematch between Marco Antonio Barrera and Erik Morales. Cotto would return to the spotlight three months later, outpointing John Brown on the pay-per-view undercard to Oscar De La Hoya’s triumph over Fernando Vargas. Twelve months would pass until Cotto again shared the airwaves with “the Golden Boy.?Cotto ended the career of Demetrio Ceballos that night, while De La Hoya came up short against Shane Mosley.

Four years is an eternity. A presidential term. A college career. And Cotto, who was 17-0 after stopping Ceballos, has graduated beyond prospect status, past contender classification and into the superstar stratosphere. [details]

[AntonTheMeh]

Cotto Is Gonna Use Oscar As A Ploy Against Mayweather.
I Say Cotto Fights The Winner Of Cintron Williams Then Fights Floyd.
I Thought It'd Be Better If The Other Way Around But Odds Are It Aint Happening.

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that article is ******. we all know that no one knows who Miguel Cotto is. we all know that Paul Williams or Kermit Cintron are far more known that Cotto and would generate 3983892390 X the PPV buys Cotto would. The could even sell out MSG to the bathrooms.

[AntonTheMeh]

that article is ******. we all know that no one knows who Miguel Cotto is. we all know that Paul Williams or Kermit Cintron are far more known that Cotto and would generate 3983892390 X the PPV buys Cotto would. The could even sell out MSG to the bathrooms.

SARCASM............NICE

[grayfist]

Good article, Mr. David. As always.

[montana18]

man, truly i feel cotto should give margarito a shot, margarito is a natural 147 pounder, and thats the fight we the fans want to see, who wants to see floyd run all night, or paul hold? i wanna see tony against cotto! lets put cotto to the test, so far he beat a old mosley and a washed up fighter in zab,(tony would have k.o. eighther one......) and now he is the ****, PLEASE..........

[MaFu MoFo]

It all depends on GayWethaer Jr., sad but true.


He re is what I think will happen...


1) GayWeather beats hatton. (duh!)


2) GayWeather will look for more money and fight ODLH... or...


3) GayWeather will "act bravely" and fight the winner of Cintron-Williams. When I said "act bravely" is because he will run away from Cotto cause he knows he will be *****-slap and humiliated. And since everyone knows he ran away from Margarito, in his mind, fighting Cintron or Williams will show he is not a "chicken". But if he is not a chicken, then he should...


4) Fight Cotto. (not going to happen.)


5) If scenario #3 plays out. I see Kermit Cintron knocking the **** out of GayWeather or Paul Williams winning by split decision.


6) Cotto will beat any contender out there. Just bring it on!!!

[floydfan]

It's pretty obvious and known that Floyd will look for any option or route that involves not fighting Cotto,Cotto is going to have to eliminate every contender and pretty much make it point blank to everyone that Floyd is scared.Even then Floyd might pull the retired move again untill Oscar offers a rematch.

[seantrader2001]

Floyld and ODLH will not fight!!!

I like Floyd and Oscar, but there is no justifiable reason they will fight again (Save Money)... Floyd choose to be tactical in the first fight and it made Oscar look clumsy which he is not,... Oscar will not take the fight, the result would be the same or worse. Floyd should fight Cotto if he wins!!

[raysan]

man, truly i feel cotto should give margarito a shot, margarito is a natural 147 pounder, and thats the fight we the fans want to see, who wants to see floyd run all night, or paul hold? i wanna see tony against cotto! lets put cotto to the test, so far he beat a old mosley and a washed up fighter in zab,(tony would have k.o. eighther one......) and now he is the ****, PLEASE..........

Speak for yourself there, In my eyes, Margarito had his shot, lost to Paul Williams and then cried about it. I want to see the best going at it, and Margarito just isnt at that level. If i had control of it all I would put it like this

Paul Williams/Kermit Cintron vs Oscar Delahoya

Floyd Mayweather/Ricky Hatton vs. Miguel Cotto

Have the winners face, and the winner has all belts, just dont know if the timeline would work out. Oscar i think definately beats either Williams or Cintron but serves as a much needed tuneup, and the other three want the big payday, so fight it out to see who gets it...