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Great fight between 2 exciting fighters with massive fanbases. I like cotto by ud.

tomcowan1996 wrote:Great fight between 2 exciting fighters with massive fanbases. I like cotto by ud.

I'd go with Hatton.He has a style that would beat Cotto .

Battle of the good but not greats.

For me pre-Margarito Cotto was a better fighter than Hatton. Although at 140lb he was very tight at the weight and his punch resistance wasn't great which could add a bit of spice.

At 147 Cotto could beat Hatton,at 140 Miguel was a young.

I like Hatton to stop Cotto late in this one. Cotto reverses the result at welterweight, also by KO.

jezzamundo wrote:I like Hatton to stop Cotto late in this one. Cotto reverses the result at welterweight, also by KO.

I think this is spot on. Hatton's too strong for Cotto at 140 and visa-versa at 147.

Hattons a good fighter, but I feel Cotto is just better. That being said I could see Hatton winning at 140, around 05-06 when Cotto was struggling to make weight and Hatton prob had more experience.
At welterweight Cotto would do a job on Ricky

I'm pretty confident that Cotto would have taken out Hatton both at 140 or 147. Cotto has problem with speed. Hatton would not survive Cotto's arsenal of firepower, Cotto is way superior in the boxing department. Hatton would be stopped in either weight class.

I was just thinking of this match-up. It would be close at either weight in my opinion but I do agree that Cotto would probably win at 147 and Hatton would win at 140.

I disliked Cotto when he was an up-and-comer because of how much hype HBO gave him. Lampley used to act as if he was a ferocious bodypuncher at time when Hatton was the one destroying people there.

Jpreisser wrote:
I disliked Cotto when he was an up-and-comer because of how much hype HBO gave him. Lampley used to act as if he was a ferocious bodypuncher at time when Hatton was the one destroying people there.

i disagree with this. most of Hatton's success with bodypunching, the Castillo fight aside, was done before he got to world level.

at world level Cotto went to the body with much more consistent success.

Counter-puncher wrote:

Jpreisser wrote:
I disliked Cotto when he was an up-and-comer because of how much hype HBO gave him. Lampley used to act as if he was a ferocious bodypuncher at time when Hatton was the one destroying people there.

i disagree with this. most of Hatton's success with bodypunching, the Castillo fight aside, was done before he got to world level.

at world level Cotto went to the body with much more consistent success.

Agreed. Either Hatton was better with lesser competition or he got worse as time went on. Cotto actually became a better boxer as time went on. Both lost to Pacquiao after losses and confidence buiding fights. Hatton was at his best weight at 140 and Cotto was at a 145 catch. And I can't see Hatton beating Mosley or even Judah.

IKSRTFO wrote:
Agreed. Either Hatton was better with lesser competition or he got worse as time went on. Cotto actually became a better boxer as time went on. Both lost to Pacquiao after losses and confidence buiding fights. Hatton was at his best weight at 140 and Cotto was at a 145 catch. And I can't see Hatton beating Mosley or even Judah.

with Hatton, i suspect it was a bit of both. he certainly found it increasingly more difficult to hit top-level guys to the body, as opposed to the half-terrified static corpses he feasted on in his WBU days pre-Tszuyu

with Cotto, he gradually sharpened up and got a bit more technical, I'd agree. the first round he boxed against Pacquaio I thought the best boxing of his career.

at 140, i would notwithstanding the above give Hatton a reasonable chance against Cotto.

i wouldn't hold it against Hatton that he couldn't beat Mosley either, that's a pure size thing.

well actually, umm, size, talent, that kind of stuff. ha.

Counter-puncher wrote:

IKSRTFO wrote:
Agreed. Either Hatton was better with lesser competition or he got worse as time went on. Cotto actually became a better boxer as time went on. Both lost to Pacquiao after losses and confidence buiding fights. Hatton was at his best weight at 140 and Cotto was at a 145 catch. And I can't see Hatton beating Mosley or even Judah.

with Hatton, i suspect it was a bit of both. he certainly found it increasingly more difficult to hit top-level guys to the body, as opposed to the half-terrified static corpses he feasted on in his WBU days pre-Tszuyu

with Cotto, he gradually sharpened up and got a bit more technical, I'd agree. the first round he boxed against Pacquaio I thought the best boxing of his career.

at 140, i would notwithstanding the above give Hatton a reasonable chance against Cotto.

i wouldn't hold it against Hatton that he couldn't beat Mosley either, that's a pure size thing.

I always envision Hatton being a lot smaller than Cotto but looking at their numbers and measurements in and out of the ring, the two weren't that far off in their peak days.

IKSRTFO wrote:

Counter-puncher wrote:

Jpreisser wrote:
I disliked Cotto when he was an up-and-comer because of how much hype HBO gave him. Lampley used to act as if he was a ferocious bodypuncher at time when Hatton was the one destroying people there.

i disagree with this. most of Hatton's success with bodypunching, the Castillo fight aside, was done before he got to world level.

at world level Cotto went to the body with much more consistent success.

Agreed. Either Hatton was better with lesser competition or he got worse as time went on. Cotto actually became a better boxer as time went on. Both lost to Pacquiao after losses and confidence buiding fights. Hatton was at his best weight at 140 and Cotto was at a 145 catch. And I can't see Hatton beating Mosley or even Judah.

Hatton would make Judah quit. Though I'm pretty confident Judah would wobble or even drop Ricky early. But after 4-5 rounds, Judah would begin to wilt