Absolutely. That blatant assault took a lot out of Cotto. Although he was still great, he was never the same. Still one of my favorite boxers of all time.
Absolutely. It changed his headspace until he got his revenge. I believe that loss affected his fights with Mayweather and Manny. He was never the same after that Margarito loss.
if u watch what Margito did post fight in cotto fight he was hugging people, celebrating, had his arms around people and didn’t look the least bit concerned. Even the referee raised his arm up with the wrap on. I find it hard to believe that no one noticed it was loaded. I don't like margarito at all. But it wasn't proven that he cheated against cotto. Margarito beat him fair and square.
My golden years were that of this era. Pacquiao, Cotto, Mayweather, Mosley, Margarito, Berto, Clottey. The good ole days. I also just wanted to say that I’m a fan of your work. Keep it up 👍
Without a Doubt , The Margarito " Revenge " bout was the defining moment in his career !! Also the Yankee Stadium bout was Special , historic for his culture . Unfortunate injury to Foreman made it an anticlimactic ending , but still an " ELECTRIC " atmosphere !
Thanks for making a Miguel cotto breakdown. I been asking you tubers and hoping there would be more on Miguel cotto. He is my favorite pro fighter and I was bummed out when he retired, I still felt he has more in him and I am an amateur boxer myself for about 13 years and I started watching Miguel cotto fights as a film study because my style is similar to his. I always thought of Mike Tyson as my all Time favorite but as I watched cottos whole fight career he became my favorite fighter and I learned alot from his fights. I use alot of things he does even if I have to do it "my way" because my style may be similar but no 2 fighters fight the same. So alot of what he does I learn ,practice, and molded it to my style. I've been all over TH-cam looking for all I can learn from him. Not much is out on him except I have found his whole career fight by fight Playlist uploaded to TH-cam so that was a game changer for me I could pull up every fight pause, rewind, and forward the videos as I needed to to film study. But by film studying his fights made him grow on me and he became my favorite fighter. Thanks for the awesome video
As a Puertorican I’m extremely proud of Miguel Cotto. We are a small island but we’ve had some of the greatest boxers the world have seen and to me it says a lot.
This video deserves more views. Cotto was my hero whilst I was competing as an amateur when I was in my late teens/early twenties. I even went as far (cringingly) copying his tribal body tattoo 😂. You have earned yourself a subscriber 👍
Como buen puertorriqueño te agradezco el tiempo que te tomaste haciendo este video y estudiando a nuestro ídolo Miguel Angel Cotto y con el respeto que lo hiciste.Gracias de ❤🇵🇷👍
Outstanding breaking. As a very dedicated and serious competitive boxer that trains relentlessly (that is me), I consider Miguel Cotto as the best Puerto Rican boxer of all time 🥊💖🇵🇷. I agree that Cotto’s victories against Zab Judah and Sergio Martinez are two of his greatest fights. Also, he outboxed Shane Mosley as well. In my opinion, Miguel Cotto’s victories against Judah, Martinez, and Mosely are his best performances. Since I’m a southpaw/switch hitter boxer, my favorite Cotto victory was against Zab Judah. When Cotto put Judah against the ropes, he would switch to southpaw and land vicious body punches on Zab Judah. Thank you for this excellent breakdown. 😎🔥🥇 🥊🥊🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💖✝️
I’ve always felt Ryan Garcia should look to train with Cotto at some point. Not that they have similar styles but both fighters best punch is the lead left hook. Ryan could improve his jab and footwork but most of all learn to keep that chin tucked by mimicking Cotto a little.
To be honest I feel that cottos style differs from that of Garcia by a lot. Also that left hook is something that Ryan Garcia uses too much and he should rather train on being just as good with his other punches and fundamentals over all.
At my highest I received maybe 80-100 title fights a month on dvd and here and there vhs. I watched thousands of fight careers and title fights, but have to say that collecting whole careers was special. I have all the great fighters from ike Williams to the present, Miguel cotto is one of them. 🇵🇷 fighters are for me my favorite to watch, Felix tito trinidad is still my favourite to watch, his style was special. I am a huge oldschool dedicated and border on boxing craazy type fan of tito. From the UK 🇬🇧.
@@acetofresh1 well yeah, I own well over 8000 fights on dvd and a good 2000 vhs, gave up when TH-cam was in its second decade. Still I own fights that may never see the light of day again maybe. I adore the old days when boxing became huge and carried on like that until this day. The 20's up until ww2 were great, my 5 favourites being Joe Louis, ike Williams, Archie Moore, sugar Ray Robinson, gene tunney, the archie Moore v Yvonne durrell fight is in my top 10 fights of all time. Watch these men and realise how great they are, gene tunney went 68-1, a great mover with good skill and reasonable power, at the time he was a new wonder. There are many other greats like dempsey who were superstars of their time who would draw huge crowds, dempsey done a one hundred thousand outdoor fight in the 20's. I could go on all night but hey. Please checkout these lost names. I have many fights from lots of careers, my favorite vids to Watch are that of the old black and white days, it started over 40yrs ago where my grandad would get me to watch boxing with him and showing me some old footage on old replays on vhs. I am 44 in October and I honestly pride myself on my knowledge and hugely respect the sport. I even drank in the pub of the great Bob Fitzsimmons in Helston, the 1st middle lightheavy and heavyweight champ and it took 108yrs to replicate and done by the great Roy Jones Jr by beating ruiz. Damn I'm banging on but yeah I have rare fights, like Jorge paez coming into the ring in a wedding dress. Hahahahahaha. Peace mate.
@@acetofresh1 I have rare inside footage of boxers training to, my favorite being Marco Antonio barrera spitsaw training whilst Naz is prancing about a bit to much if you get my drift.
I wish we could have seen Cotto/Tszyu, Cotto/Gatti, Cotto/Hatton, Cotto/Marquez. Those would have been barn burners. I think his biggest accomplishment inside the ring came when he fought Sergio Martinez for the lineal middleweight title and became the first PR to win titles in 4 weight divisions.
Miguel Cotto is easily in my top five favorite boxer of all time 1 sugar ray Robinson 2 Muhammad Ali 3 marvelous Marvin hagler 4 Evander holyfield 5 Miguel Cotto because these boxers fought every body ducked no one and fought them in their prime didn't wait till they faded like some fighters do peace
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that Cotto is Probably the ultimate definition of a fighter just by his story, battles, and principles he lives by as a warrior for his family. I felt it after one of his loses when his Wife told him She can’t stand him hurt while fighting anymore and Cotto replied in Spanish “I know, but what else can we do love, This is all I know”- Cotto legend
Hi Jamie, - excellent breakdown, - and yeah, from pressure come forward fighter to superb and calculated boxer. I really enjoy these stylistic breakdowns, thanks! One amusing thing was that Miguel not known for smiling after a brilliant victory, and being a man of few but well considered words, - was smiling give the post fight interview after his last fight, and loss, - like he was just at peace with having given his all through his career and it was feet up time. Monster in the ring - total humble and decent person outside of it, how can anybody not love Miguel? Thanks again, and great stuff with the sub progress in the time you have been creating content! Peace - Gus ;)
Thank you man! Glad you enjoy the breakdowns. Going to try get more out but they do take time. Yeah exactly, if you don’t like watching Cotto, you don’t love boxing! Much appreciated again!
@@BoxingLife Thanks, - can well believe it that fighter profiles are time consuming, - just do them when you can Jamie, - your channel should be as much enjoyment for you creating the content as it is for us, the viewers to watch, - Peace -Gus ;)
Always loved watching cotto, I remember the first time watching him against cesar bazan and thought to myself, I wanna box like this guy, great mix of counter punching and fighting on the inside
One of my favorite boxers and one of the best and entertaining fighter. Good breakdown, I saw almost all of his pro career fights, I really like his style, stance, defense. Thank for the video
Cotto was always a good boxer-puncher he didn't develop into one. Look at his early fights with N'dou, Abdullaev and even some before that. Besides that thanks for the video and I am a fan of your stuff 👍🏽
Loved me some Cotto. When he moved to 47 it was one of those great examples of a more comfortable weight their chins get better. He was a beast at 147 his resume is a who's who of that eras top guys... although he'd grown out of that weight by the time he fought Pac... would have loved it if he'd not had to cut those extra 2pounds to 145, when struggling two pounds is alot
I dont know why, but i always loved how Corro came in with a boxing style that reminded me of the cholos that boxed in the hood. Toght tucked chin, always coming forward, and no wasted movement . The first fight i ever saw him was the Zab Judah fighy. I was an instant fan.
Cotto is a goat if u really study him he's really one of the best fighters ever just had a few off nights and in others had some disadvantages already know
Round 9 vs Mayweather is never talked about and it was the round where Cotto really hurt Mayweather. I always thought that if he had followed thru he might have had a chance of beating the MoneyMan.
Cotto wasn't knocked out in the Olympics and especially not in the first round. Just lost but got his revenge by the fighter quitting in the pros against him. Great video by the way. Thank you because I feel that most boxers today more than likely don't use or even know cotto because of how strong the boxing culture can be, borderline racist especially with fans, but guess I'm lucky to be puerto Rican but also love and respect boxing so much that I still use floyd as my overall way of boxing and fighting, but whenever a dude wants to get funny with me, I switch to cotto and it's amazing because I quickly shut all their efforts down by staying tight, blocking all those shits and making it seem like they're nothing while literally just intimidating them with my cool presence and the cotto style alone is enough to intimidate any fighter to the ropes because it's efficient in not wasting energy, beautiful defense and amazing acting(poker faces). Cottos face is not the face you want to have in front of you when you're on the ropes. I'd rather have Tyson or GGG, but cotto is so smart that you know he won't be wasting shots and anything that touches you will hurt. Cotto vs Sosa is a great example of that. Because if you watch Floyd vs Sosa you see a different look in Sosa. Also, he had the most dangerous left to the body the world has ever seen. Tyson was a monster, but cotto didn't have to try too hard, but if he did, you could basically kiss your liver goodbye. The attitude he uses to hit you with that hook is the attitude all fighters needed to have for ALL their shots.
Always liked cotto but never knew he was a left handed orthodox (I am the same) so going to do a lot more studying of him also absolutely fantastic video !
Cotto reminds me of Japanese Featherweight Champion Shozo Saijo. Their style had a lot of similarities. Cotto was like Saijo but with no head movements but more power.
Cotto was the only boxer to give a tough fight for Mayweather. I believe that if he just kept throwing power punches to Meyweather esp when his back was on the rope he could've won that fight.
If he wasn’t forced to drain himself to 145 and STAY at 145, cotto would have stopped manny Pac-Man in 2009. The reason they forced him to that weight is because they knew what would happen if he rehydrated. Floyd Mayweather Jr said out of his own mouth that this man was the toughest and craftiest man he ever fought. A man who forced mayweather to actually adjust to adjustments floyd made mid fight.
The Margarito assault/loss was a setup by Bob Arum for Cotto to be at a disadvantage at negotiations with Pacquiao. Arum was the promoter for both Cotto and Pacquiao. An undefeated No.1 pound for pound Cotto would have never had to go back down in weight against that steroid using midget. He would have beat the brakes off of Pacquiao.
Thank you so much! boxing life guidelines for looking out for my own favorite fighter Miguel cotto, one of the best if not the best! Puerto Rican fighter of all time! thank you for looking out for the Puerto Rican boxers. I truly believe in my heart that they are very underrated for some "odd" reason! anyway I'm not going to get into that right now... I would like as a Puerto Rican myself who had a couple of amateur fights to take my hat off to you for shining a light over Miguel cotto look like lol m on and his exciting and illustrious career I just subscribed to your channel and gave you a thumbs up with a like God bless and Godspeed to you and yours🎉😊
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words and glad I can shine light on fighters that I feel are under appreciated at times. I appreciate you following the channel! Hopefully will have some more Puerto Rican for you in the future.
Cotto is a elegant boxer still and a very humble guy i met him at mech tech in caguas, Puerto Rico and his words before a fight were none but his boxing style was immaculate. To my preference he has a unique boxing style better than Trinidad. (No disrespect tho) but he just danced and floated on the ring so easy that he inspired so many kids.
I met Emmanuel stewward he loved Miguel and I met him when he had first started training him what I remember him saying was cotto had that Puerto Rican heart and was a beast
Top 3 of his generation, just behind 1. Floyd and 2. Pacquiao. Can't even imagine how much better we would have been with proper coaching right off the bat, no severe car accident destroying his Right arm and lastly, not getting beaten down by Margaritto's loaded plaster-paris gloves.
He was a greater boxer than both. Bob Arum just couldn't get over his beef with Mayweather for leaving and chose to elevate Pacquiao by derailing Cotto.
4:26: HOT TAKE: Cotto Would've beaten Pacman if he went with Steward earlier instead of Santiago. Steward gave him a very good footwork and started to jab a lot more. Also, Cotto was rumored to be dehydrated at that fight.
I'm from Puerto Rico and he was always my favorite boxer unfortunately margarito hurt him a better future even so he was a true champion 🥊🐐🇵🇷 at this moment we have Subriel Matias I recommend you watch his fights 👍🏻
Never saw a single Cotto fight that was unenjoyable. Dude always gave it his all and was one of my favorite fighters.
You right man! Even his fight with Floyd was very entertaining!!
Orgullo Puerto Rican🇵🇷🇵🇷🥊
He gave us some great entertaining nights my friend..I agree. Paul... ENGLAND..
Boss breakdown, keep it up mate
Canelo said that his favorite fight was with Cotto. He said it was the purest form of boxing he participated in, he loved it.
MrSirFluffy - didn't know that, but it figures, thanks for the info, Peace - Gus ;)
Doesn’t surprise me, was a high boxing iq fight with both guys doing good work. You can tell the respect from
Both throughout the fight.
Canelo took a few moves from Cotto in his own evolution.
@@santanasantana9936 True, - ;)
That's one of my favorite Cotto fights, it was pure art.
Cotto never ran away from a fight and fought the best of his era
Man if margarito never cheated that first fight, cotto could have been even better.
I feel like they shouldn’t even count that as a win he cheated Cotto.
Absolutely. That blatant assault took a lot out of Cotto. Although he was still great, he was never the same. Still one of my favorite boxers of all time.
Absolutely. It changed his headspace until he got his revenge. I believe that loss affected his fights with Mayweather and Manny. He was never the same after that Margarito loss.
I concur 💯
if u watch what Margito did post fight in cotto fight he was hugging people, celebrating, had his arms around people and didn’t look the least bit concerned. Even the referee raised his arm up with the wrap on. I find it hard to believe that no one noticed it was loaded. I don't like margarito at all. But it wasn't proven that he cheated against cotto. Margarito beat him fair and square.
Cotto is a great fighter and true warrior who fought everyone in the sport. The guy is a legit throw back fighter.
Yeah definitely an old school feel to him!
My golden years were that of this era. Pacquiao, Cotto, Mayweather, Mosley, Margarito, Berto, Clottey. The good ole days. I also just wanted to say that I’m a fan of your work. Keep it up 👍
Sure was! Appreciate the support bro! 👊
Days are getting better tbh
@@vince11harris these last few years of boxing have been a thriller for fans. Unifications & undisputed fights. What more can you ask for
@@surgicalboxing1551 yessir and it’s only gonna get better 💯
Including all time favourite oscar de la Golden boy HBO Larry Jim emanuel steward max kellerman legendary 💯
I always loved how he mixed in really solid fundamentals with unique style and heart. This dude was awesome to watch
As a Puerto Rican and a boxing fan, this video gave me chills. Elegantly made and very insightful. Thank you.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Without a Doubt , The Margarito " Revenge " bout was the defining moment in his career !! Also the Yankee Stadium bout was Special , historic for his culture . Unfortunate injury to Foreman made it an anticlimactic ending , but still an " ELECTRIC " atmosphere !
The margarita bout was truly a great moment , I totally agree my friend... Paul.. ENGLAND...
Cotto is a sore loser
Thanks for making a Miguel cotto breakdown. I been asking you tubers and hoping there would be more on Miguel cotto. He is my favorite pro fighter and I was bummed out when he retired, I still felt he has more in him and I am an amateur boxer myself for about 13 years and I started watching Miguel cotto fights as a film study because my style is similar to his. I always thought of Mike Tyson as my all Time favorite but as I watched cottos whole fight career he became my favorite fighter and I learned alot from his fights. I use alot of things he does even if I have to do it "my way" because my style may be similar but no 2 fighters fight the same. So alot of what he does I learn ,practice, and molded it to my style. I've been all over TH-cam looking for all I can learn from him. Not much is out on him except I have found his whole career fight by fight Playlist uploaded to TH-cam so that was a game changer for me I could pull up every fight pause, rewind, and forward the videos as I needed to to film study.
But by film studying his fights made him grow on me and he became my favorite fighter.
Thanks for the awesome video
That’s awesome! I understand why so many appreciated him. Very underrated boxing iq and fun to watch. Really glad you liked it!
Love Miguel. Met him in person in NYC. Such a gentleman. Great warrior in the ring. Nothing but love and respect.
That’s amazing! Yeah he seems like a really humble guy.
Being Puerto Rican and from New York
The part when you said
“ he should be more celebrated and appreciated “
I felt that.
Glad it meant something!👊
he is not? Every cotto fight we bought it.
As a Puertorican I’m extremely proud of Miguel Cotto. We are a small island but we’ve had some of the greatest boxers the world have seen and to me it says a lot.
I’m black and love Floyd mayweather but after him was cotto for me. I love watching cotto fight!!
Hall of famer for a reason. Great content as always.
Without a doubt! Thanks Matt
@@BoxingLife your welcome buddy 😊 👊
Cotto was simply a great fighter,one of my favourite boxers of all times!!! ❤️👏👏👏
Can't wait! Cotto is definitely one of my favorite boxers!
Hope you enjoyed!
This video deserves more views.
Cotto was my hero whilst I was competing as an amateur when I was in my late teens/early twenties. I even went as far (cringingly) copying his tribal body tattoo 😂.
You have earned yourself a subscriber 👍
A good hero to have! Welcome!
Como buen puertorriqueño te agradezco el tiempo que te tomaste haciendo este video y estudiando a nuestro ídolo Miguel Angel Cotto y con el respeto que lo hiciste.Gracias de ❤🇵🇷👍
Outstanding breaking. As a very dedicated and serious competitive boxer that trains relentlessly (that is me), I consider Miguel Cotto as the best Puerto Rican boxer of all time
🥊💖🇵🇷. I agree that Cotto’s victories against Zab Judah and Sergio Martinez are two of his greatest fights. Also, he outboxed Shane Mosley as well. In my opinion, Miguel Cotto’s victories against Judah, Martinez, and Mosely are his best performances. Since I’m a southpaw/switch hitter boxer, my favorite Cotto victory was against Zab Judah. When Cotto put Judah against the ropes, he would switch to southpaw and land vicious body punches on Zab Judah. Thank you for this excellent breakdown. 😎🔥🥇
🥊🥊🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾💖✝️
He was a class act.
Sure was!
I’ve always felt Ryan Garcia should look to train with Cotto at some point. Not that they have similar styles but both fighters best punch is the lead left hook. Ryan could improve his jab and footwork but most of all learn to keep that chin tucked by mimicking Cotto a little.
I believe that Cotto is a promoter, maybe Ryan should consider signing with him. Another important aspect is that Cotto is also a great business man.
To be honest I feel that cottos style differs from that of Garcia by a lot. Also that left hook is something that Ryan Garcia uses too much and he should rather train on being just as good with his other punches and fundamentals over all.
So Miguel Cotto is actually a real southpaw that learned to fight in the orthodox stance .that’s why he’s left hook was so good
One of my favorite fighters to watch. He fought the very best.
At my highest I received maybe 80-100 title fights a month on dvd and here and there vhs. I watched thousands of fight careers and title fights, but have to say that collecting whole careers was special. I have all the great fighters from ike Williams to the present, Miguel cotto is one of them. 🇵🇷 fighters are for me my favorite to watch, Felix tito trinidad is still my favourite to watch, his style was special. I am a huge oldschool dedicated and border on boxing craazy type fan of tito. From the UK 🇬🇧.
Any rares you've come across mate?
@@acetofresh1 well yeah, I own well over 8000 fights on dvd and a good 2000 vhs, gave up when TH-cam was in its second decade. Still I own fights that may never see the light of day again maybe. I adore the old days when boxing became huge and carried on like that until this day. The 20's up until ww2 were great, my 5 favourites being Joe Louis, ike Williams, Archie Moore, sugar Ray Robinson, gene tunney, the archie Moore v Yvonne durrell fight is in my top 10 fights of all time. Watch these men and realise how great they are, gene tunney went 68-1, a great mover with good skill and reasonable power, at the time he was a new wonder. There are many other greats like dempsey who were superstars of their time who would draw huge crowds, dempsey done a one hundred thousand outdoor fight in the 20's. I could go on all night but hey. Please checkout these lost names. I have many fights from lots of careers, my favorite vids to Watch are that of the old black and white days, it started over 40yrs ago where my grandad would get me to watch boxing with him and showing me some old footage on old replays on vhs. I am 44 in October and I honestly pride myself on my knowledge and hugely respect the sport. I even drank in the pub of the great Bob Fitzsimmons in Helston, the 1st middle lightheavy and heavyweight champ and it took 108yrs to replicate and done by the great Roy Jones Jr by beating ruiz. Damn I'm banging on but yeah I have rare fights, like Jorge paez coming into the ring in a wedding dress. Hahahahahaha. Peace mate.
@@acetofresh1 I have rare inside footage of boxers training to, my favorite being Marco Antonio barrera spitsaw training whilst Naz is prancing about a bit to much if you get my drift.
You should post man! The world could use such history! You're pretty young for a man with such a collection IMO!@@ThehulkGreen
Great breakdown, one of my favorite fighters of all time!
Thanks Justin, glad you enjoyed! 👊🇵🇷
Cotto an all time great one of the best left hook in boxing
💯
One of the All time greats always humble in victory or defeat a true professional Thank you Cotto for the amazing memories...
I wish we could have seen Cotto/Tszyu, Cotto/Gatti, Cotto/Hatton, Cotto/Marquez. Those would have been barn burners.
I think his biggest accomplishment inside the ring came when he fought Sergio Martinez for the lineal middleweight title and became the first PR to win titles in 4 weight divisions.
Miguel Cotto is easily in my top five favorite boxer of all time 1 sugar ray Robinson 2 Muhammad Ali 3 marvelous Marvin hagler 4 Evander holyfield 5 Miguel Cotto because these boxers fought every body ducked no one and fought them in their prime didn't wait till they faded like some fighters do peace
Cotto boxing style was beautifully crafted by the years, but it was his heart that really make him top notch of his era. One of the greats, HOFamer.
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed that Cotto is Probably the ultimate definition of a fighter just by his story, battles, and principles he lives by as a warrior for his family. I felt it after one of his loses when his Wife told him She can’t stand him hurt while fighting anymore and Cotto replied in Spanish “I know, but what else can we do love, This is all I know”- Cotto legend
Mr Cotto in his prime very dangerous fighter boxing skills are supreme 2nd none win or lose this guy was a beast 🐯🐯🐯
We haven’t had a true Puerto Rican star since Cotto
Xander Zayas will be the next I think! Serraro is a pretty big star too now.
@@BoxingLife I agree, Zayas is the one.
Love watching his fights over thank you Jamie! 🔥
Thanks Pete! Yeah, was in so many good fights!
His left hook to the body is one of the best signature weapons in the history of boxing.
My favorite modern day boxer! Great vid.
Much appreciated
My favourite fighter, even in a loss he was still dangerous.
One of my favorite fighters of all time!
Man you made my day with this video. Cotto is my favorite fighter 🇵🇷🙏🏻💪🏻
Thank you! Glad to hear you enjoyed!
The boxer-punchers always kept me intrigued to watch more of boxing.
Hi Jamie, - excellent breakdown, - and yeah, from pressure come forward fighter to superb and calculated boxer. I really enjoy these stylistic breakdowns, thanks!
One amusing thing was that Miguel not known for smiling after a brilliant victory, and being a man of few but well considered words, - was smiling give the post fight interview after his last fight, and loss, - like he was just at peace with having given his all through his career and it was feet up time.
Monster in the ring - total humble and decent person outside of it, how can anybody not love Miguel?
Thanks again, and great stuff with the sub progress in the time you have been creating content! Peace - Gus ;)
Thank you man! Glad you enjoy the breakdowns. Going to try get more out but they do take time. Yeah exactly, if you don’t like watching Cotto, you don’t love boxing! Much appreciated again!
@@BoxingLife Thanks, - can well believe it that fighter profiles are time consuming, - just do them when you can Jamie, - your channel should be as much enjoyment for you creating the content as it is for us, the viewers to watch, - Peace -Gus ;)
Always loved watching cotto, I remember the first time watching him against cesar bazan and thought to myself, I wanna box like this guy, great mix of counter punching and fighting on the inside
One of the greatest ever
Puerto Rican fighter's train the lead hook to be there most effective punch or as devastating as the cross
I have so much respect and admiration for Miguel as a boxer and as a family man ❤
Love it. Lotsa people forget how great he was. Glad u didn't.
Always appreciated him! Never disappointed.
Watch cotto do shadow box is make me think about my footwork 💃🥊
One of my favorite boxers and one of the best and entertaining fighter. Good breakdown, I saw almost all of his pro career fights, I really like his style, stance, defense. Thank for the video
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
Cotto is the reason I really fell in love with boxing! The way he carried respect inside and outside the ring! Nothing but class!
Maybe a Joe Calzaghe video next?
I’ll put him on the list!
Cotto was always a good boxer-puncher he didn't develop into one. Look at his early fights with N'dou, Abdullaev and even some before that.
Besides that thanks for the video and I am a fan of your stuff 👍🏽
Loved me some Cotto. When he moved to 47 it was one of those great examples of a more comfortable weight their chins get better. He was a beast at 147 his resume is a who's who of that eras top guys... although he'd grown out of that weight by the time he fought Pac... would have loved it if he'd not had to cut those extra 2pounds to 145, when struggling two pounds is alot
Was always my favourite. Loved his style
This is great - my favourite fighter. Always world class, in and out of the ring. Does not garner nearly enough attention as he deserves imo.
I dont know why, but i always loved how Corro came in with a boxing style that reminded me of the cholos that boxed in the hood. Toght tucked chin, always coming forward, and no wasted movement . The first fight i ever saw him was the Zab Judah fighy. I was an instant fan.
Cotto is a legend
Cotto is a goat if u really study him he's really one of the best fighters ever just had a few off nights and in others had some disadvantages already know
Great analysis! This video is great. It really depicts the wonderful boxer that cotto was 🇵🇷 🙌
Round 9 vs Mayweather is never talked about and it was the round where Cotto really hurt Mayweather. I always thought that if he had followed thru he might have had a chance of beating the MoneyMan.
Great video and content and personal touches.. thank you for highlighting one of my favorite boxers of all time
couldn't agree more, one of the most awesome men of the sport and great fightwr
Cotto wasn't knocked out in the Olympics and especially not in the first round. Just lost but got his revenge by the fighter quitting in the pros against him. Great video by the way. Thank you because I feel that most boxers today more than likely don't use or even know cotto because of how strong the boxing culture can be, borderline racist especially with fans, but guess I'm lucky to be puerto Rican but also love and respect boxing so much that I still use floyd as my overall way of boxing and fighting, but whenever a dude wants to get funny with me, I switch to cotto and it's amazing because I quickly shut all their efforts down by staying tight, blocking all those shits and making it seem like they're nothing while literally just intimidating them with my cool presence and the cotto style alone is enough to intimidate any fighter to the ropes because it's efficient in not wasting energy, beautiful defense and amazing acting(poker faces). Cottos face is not the face you want to have in front of you when you're on the ropes. I'd rather have Tyson or GGG, but cotto is so smart that you know he won't be wasting shots and anything that touches you will hurt. Cotto vs Sosa is a great example of that. Because if you watch Floyd vs Sosa you see a different look in Sosa. Also, he had the most dangerous left to the body the world has ever seen. Tyson was a monster, but cotto didn't have to try too hard, but if he did, you could basically kiss your liver goodbye. The attitude he uses to hit you with that hook is the attitude all fighters needed to have for ALL their shots.
Always liked cotto but never knew he was a left handed orthodox (I am the same) so going to do a lot more studying of him also absolutely fantastic video !
Always has and will be my favourite, heart of a lion. From Liverpool
Cotto reminds me of Japanese Featherweight Champion Shozo Saijo. Their style had a lot of similarities. Cotto was like Saijo but with no head movements but more power.
Cotto was the only boxer to give a tough fight for Mayweather. I believe that if he just kept throwing power punches to Meyweather esp when his back was on the rope he could've won that fight.
If the fight happened prior to the Margarito assault, Cotto would have won.
Best,Beast blah blah. You just can't describe him with words a great and goated fighter for sure .great video 😤
One my favs of all time
That beauty against Pac man was what he was hitting through out the first fight against Margacheto
About time!
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Heart of a champion
If he wasn’t forced to drain himself to 145 and STAY at 145, cotto would have stopped manny Pac-Man in 2009. The reason they forced him to that weight is because they knew what would happen if he rehydrated. Floyd Mayweather Jr said out of his own mouth that this man was the toughest and craftiest man he ever fought. A man who forced mayweather to actually adjust to adjustments floyd made mid fight.
The Margarito assault/loss was a setup by Bob Arum for Cotto to be at a disadvantage at negotiations with Pacquiao. Arum was the promoter for both Cotto and Pacquiao. An undefeated No.1 pound for pound Cotto would have never had to go back down in weight against that steroid using midget. He would have beat the brakes off of Pacquiao.
Cotto was like the Terminator
Thank you so much! boxing life guidelines for looking out for my own favorite fighter Miguel cotto, one of the best if not the best! Puerto Rican fighter of all time! thank you for looking out for the Puerto Rican boxers. I truly believe in my heart that they are very underrated for some "odd" reason! anyway I'm not going to get into that right now... I would like as a Puerto Rican myself who had a couple of amateur fights to take my hat off to you for shining a light over Miguel cotto look like lol m on and his exciting and illustrious career I just subscribed to your channel and gave you a thumbs up with a like God bless and Godspeed to you and yours🎉😊
Thank you, I really appreciate the kind words and glad I can shine light on fighters that I feel are under appreciated at times. I appreciate you following the channel! Hopefully will have some
more Puerto Rican for you in the future.
@@BoxingLife 🙂thanks 👍
The only boxer i love the boxing style
Miguel Cotto 🇵🇷 Style is ✅
veré good video🔥🔥🔥🥰he is one of the best fighters in the world and when he start nobody can beat him 🔥🔥🔥thanks for the video information 🔥🔥🔥
Powerful video
Hope you enjoy!
Thank you for this breakdown, id been looking for something like this for a while
beautifully done, brother
Cotto is a elegant boxer still and a very humble guy i met him at mech tech in caguas, Puerto Rico and his words before a fight were none but his boxing style was immaculate. To my preference he has a unique boxing style better than Trinidad. (No disrespect tho) but he just danced and floated on the ring so easy that he inspired so many kids.
A great great boxer/puncher, will always be a fan, thanks for your input and acknowledgment #warcotto
One of the great ones and these was well done. Thanks
I met Emmanuel stewward he loved Miguel and I met him when he had first started training him what I remember him saying was cotto had that Puerto Rican heart and was a beast
Love your video. Love your breakdown of the champ 🏆
Can you do about david haye
Great video brother
Legendary el mejor estilista del ensogado es un deleite verlo moverse y a la vez ser peligroso.Boricua 100÷
Been waiting for this 💯💯
Top 3 of his generation, just behind 1. Floyd and 2. Pacquiao.
Can't even imagine how much better we would have been with proper coaching right off the bat, no severe car accident destroying his Right arm and lastly, not getting beaten down by Margaritto's loaded plaster-paris gloves.
if freddie roach was there from the beginning…
I sincerely believe that Cotto was as great a Floyd and Manny. He was the third legend of that era.
He was a greater boxer than both. Bob Arum just couldn't get over his beef with Mayweather for leaving and chose to elevate Pacquiao by derailing Cotto.
Hey Nice video can you make one on Canelo Alvarez if you dident already
I will eventually!
Great vid man. Can you do one on Evander Holyfield?
Great breakdown.. you should do one on Joshua Clottey he was a very under appreciated fighter 👨🏽🍳🥊
this was great.
4:26: HOT TAKE: Cotto Would've beaten Pacman if he went with Steward earlier instead of Santiago. Steward gave him a very good footwork and started to jab a lot more. Also, Cotto was rumored to be dehydrated at that fight.
Love cotto
My top 5 Boxers of all time
The Champ!!!
I'm from Puerto Rico and he was always my favorite boxer unfortunately margarito hurt him a better future even so he was a true champion 🥊🐐🇵🇷 at this moment we have Subriel Matias I recommend you watch his fights 👍🏻