Grade Cotto's performance without biased.............

[The Surgeon]

Lol, no bro it doesn't. Clotty vs. Cotto would be a 50-50 fight in realty. Berto would put up a good fight for the first 5 rounds, but I think Cotto would chop him down after that.

lol what im saying is Berto has the Fast sharp puches that tend to get Miguel in trouble (unless u include the clubbing plaster blows) and is a finisher with a wicked uppercut. He is most likely gonna get KO'd if they fight but his chance of winning is higher than Clotteys i feel.
But a Clottey fight will go all the way and be a tough physical one.

[DiegoFuego]

dude he fought a total bum. there's no point in analyzing it

[oldgringo]

Clottey is more durable than Berto, has fought the better opponents, has better defense and is a big welterweight, stylistically, he's a tough fight for everyone.

Collazo is a good fighter but Berto struggling that badly with Collazo signifies to me that he needs more time before stepping into the ring against a top welterweight and I think if Berto had been in the ring that night against Cotto, he would have gotten knocked out. Berto's speed would give Cotto problems but after a few rounds of getting pounded to the body by Cotto, Berto starts gassing and gets sloppy then gets knocked out, that's how I see a Berto-Cotto fight going right now.

A Clottey fight is a toss up to me and would probably be a tough fight to score because Cotto would probably have the higher workrate but Clottey would probably be the more accurate and Clottey has the type of defense to neutralize a body attack which would give Cotto a lot of problems, he's a big welterweight which would wear on Cotto as the fight goes on and likes to put pressure on opponents which seems to bother Cotto, especially late in his fights, his pressure isn't as intense as Margarito's but it's sustained pressure nonetheless.

I disagree.

Berto has a clear X-factor...the speed and punching power. Berto isn't a massive puncher or anything, but his ability to deliver those sharp, quick power shots could potentially put Cotto in trouble at some point in the fight. A Berto/Cotto fight could certainly go the way you described, but the margin for error would be less for Cotto in that fight because Berto can take opponents out and quickly.

Clottey doesn't really have one thing that sticks out to me. He has relatively fast hands, decent power, good defense, etc. He's a strong guy with a cut physique but he doesn't always use it to wear his opponent out. Nothing is extraordinary. With regard to nullifying a body attack with his defense, I'm very skeptical/doubting that. He let Richard Gutierrez **** the body all night and that's why that fight was reasonably close. Clottey turtles up and allows his opponents to get off in spots. His physique is good so he can take the abuse in most cases, but it wouldn't be a good idea against a top tier body puncher like Cotto.

I just really haven't been that impressed by Clottey. I started following him around '06 and haven't seen anything that has wow'ed me. He lets lesser opponents hang around and that won't work when he fights a guy like Cotto who certainly isn't lesser.

[alexdcolon]

Cotto got an A in my books! He fought a smart fight. That's how you win fights. He did everything right. The first couple of rounds he took his time measuring Jennings but always was coming forward and did enough to win the those rounds. That's exsactly what he should have done considering it was his first fight back after a (loss*) and the fact that he didn't know much about this guy.
I was most impressed by his patients....It takes time to learn that in this sport. As soon as he hurt this guy, he opened up! His body work was great, he changed his angles. He cut the guy down in a controlled manner like the Cotto of old.

[Piper the Great]

B

cotto showed great ring cut off skills since jenning looked like he didnt want to fight. soon as jennings tried to trade it was over.

[El Chupacabra]

I will say I will give him an B... it is hard to say it was the best performance of his life because of it being Michael Jennings and all but he has shown character from coming back from his recent loss and getting over those mental scars, it was an easy victory because his opponent wasn't on his level but we have to consider it was just a confidence build up.

Cotto at first was picking his punches fighting a smart fight, not getting careless and waiting for an opening where he can catch his opponent with a good shot and unleash on him, so in a way he fought a good intelligent fight to come away with the win.

I would of gave him an A for how he fought, he was more cautious and fought with a lot more intelligence and you could see he has improved on his defense more, it was a good KO victory where he shown he had a lot of skills as a fighter... however due to the quality of his opponent I can't bring myself by saying it was an A because of the performance because we all knew it would have been an easy fight for him... in which I brought it down to a B to kind of cancel it out (if that makes sense).

There my thoughts anyway.

I agree with you 100%. I gave him a B also. I thought his defense was good and he took his time. The most important thing too was that he did not get careless.

[Pullcounter]

cotto started out very slow and methodical. but jennings has pretty good movement.

[boxingsmash69]

i give it an A-.

the first few rounds of Cotto/Jennings looked similar to the first few rounds of Cotto/Quintana. Cotto took his time in the early rounds in both of those fights.

after all, jennings and quintana are similar, use plenty of lateral movement.

[My Name Is...]

I'll give him a C+ He didnt look all that fast and was plodding just a bit...

I used to look at Miguel and think, damn it would be hard to beat him...

But last night I looked at him, and he looked like he was very beatable...

[IMDAZED]

Cotto needs another confidence builder. He seemed a little tentative last night and while he did pick it up in the 3rd and 4th, I suspect he'll still be a bit tentative in his next bout. Is it just me or did he look slower than usual?