Why does Martinez have to be less than 100% for Cotto to win?

[Ham Porter]

Cotto is the most well paid gatekeeper in the history of the sport.

[johncods]

Sergio is bigger than Cotto and healthy he will have movement on his side, but he isn't the type of fighter who imposes his physicality and size on his opponent. He prefers for you to come at him and pepper you with his jab, right hook, and straight left counters.
Cotto can jab from the outside and get inside Sergio's reach, other fighters less skilled than Cotto have done it. The issue he needs to watch, like always, the uppercut. Sergio drives them hard and fast and Cotto needs to be prepared for this.

So did Trout.

It doesn't matter if Sergio does not use his size to bully cotto. His punches are going to hurt the smaller cotto when it lands and he will land a lot of them. Martinez was able to take punches from huge guys and hard punchers like pavlik and chavez jr. Miguel's punches are going to have no effect on Martinez while Martinez's punches will hurt cotto.

[j.one]

He hated Pacquiao's high volume, crazy angles, and relentless attack. Martinez doesn't bring any of that to the table, maybe the angles, but not to the same degree.

I believe Cotto set the world record for most low-blows with no point deduction in the Judah fight as well.

LMFAO after Zab lifted Cotto off the ground with that uppercut the aim became the cup, the ref didn't even wanna give zab the time to recover lmao...the Zab win is kinda tainted IMO had he been fighting within the rules that would have been a better fight.

[lfc19titles]

Because cotto does not have an iron jaw

Martinez will be a 170-175 pound man punching a blown up 147 fighter in the face. Martinez had good punching power, speedand technique.

Cotto will get knocked out early if anything more than a 90 percent Martinez comes at him compared to his prime

Martinez will be throwing less than Pac, not using as many angles or combinations but his punches will be twice as hard

[Ray*]

If Martinez doesn't KO Cotto here I would be surprised to be honest, his style is just all wrong for Cotto, unless Team Cotto knows something about Martinez's injuries that we don't know.

[IronDanHamza]

Because there's no way today's Cotto is beating a guy who's much bigger, faster, hits harder and has the movement Martinez does.

Cotto is getting soundly beaten by Trout. Martinez will kill the guy.

I think he beats him even if he's not 100% to be honest.

He's going to hit Cotto a lot and hurt him a lot.

[MGMGRAND]

He hated Pacquiao's high volume, crazy angles, and relentless attack. Martinez doesn't bring any of that to the table, maybe the angles, but not to the same degree.

Martinez is a much all around better fight than Pacquaio. But to answer your question, who is the last guy as skilled as Cotto has Martinez beaten?? No one, so Cotto could very welll win regardless.

[FerFAL]

Because Martinez at 100% is bigger, stronger, faster and better boxer. There's just no way in hell Coto beats Martinez if he's 100% as in perfectly over his injuries. Most of all, its a matter of simple size. Cotto is very small for that weight, Martinez is pretty big. That alone is a big difference in boxing, were many bigger boxers have beaten smaller ones in spite of not beign that good. If we add to that that Martinez is in fact pretty good, then that's why most see a realistic chance of winning only if Martinez is still strugglign with his injuries.

[Bravado]

People.....its over. Cotto is one of the most loved/paid gatekeepers because he's a noble boxer. He has a lot of heart and wears it on his glove when he boxes. He's just not a natural even at 154. And i felt he was made for 147....so putting things into perspective, how can that counter uppercut that Judah land hurt him, the pitter patter flick punches that Trout throw keep him honest and did we ****ing forget? Demarcus Corley? A guy who comes in at 140 on fight night was maybe 1 or 2 clean punches from finishing Cotto because of that right hook.

So how can Cotto, 9 years later, 9 years older, in 9 years after the Judah hurt him, Clottey beat him arguably, same with Shane, Floyd beat him...and even he hurt him, Margarito robbed him of like 5-6 fights and Pacquiao absolutely demolished him can we feel he'd beat up on a bigger, slicker, stronger man?

Cotto one of my favorite fighters, but Martinez is too. Its gonna be a quick night and i'd be shocked if Cotto wins

[lfc19titles]

Because there's no way today's Cotto is beating a guy who's much bigger, faster, hits harder and has the movement Martinez does.

Cotto is getting soundly beaten by Trout. Martinez will kill the guy.

I think he beats him even if he's not 100% to be honest.

He's going to hit Cotto a lot and hurt him a lot.

i agree with everything bar the 100 percent comment

the murray fight in which martinez was in bits, he lost that, he got a home town decision and was dropped two times (only 1 counted) and I remember him having little movement, his reactions also went to bits.

if martinez is not at around 85 percent at least compared to his best, it will be a tough fight, if martinez is in the same condition as the murray fight he will lose

personally I think this will perhaps be the last fight for martinez, certainly on the big stage, I think we will see a slower martinez, he will be at around 90 percent, I think he will knock cotto out at like round 8 and call it a day imo