Steward Grades Cotto, Says Mayorga Badly Wanted Pacquiao Fight....WOODS |
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| Written by Michael Woods | |||
| Monday, 14 March 2011 15:40 | |||
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After watching the Miguel Cotto/Ricardo Mayorga fight on Saturday, I couldn't nail down my take on the bout as firmly as I would've liked. I knew I saw Mayorga fighting a damned solid fight, and like I wrote on Saturday night, I would've been giving the Nicaraguan a bunch of 9.5 rounds, if our scoring system were tweaked so we could better indicate just how close a round was. But what I couldn't figure out was, were the rounds close because Mayorga was all that, or was Cotto just a bit off his game, or maybe not fighting the right strategy against the wildman? Radam G says:
Da Manny -- Steward not Congress Pacquiao -- is the miracle worker of pugilism. He teaches mentally and psychological blind-arse Hellen Keller-like fighters to SEE and use their hands effectively and with grace. Holla! brownsugar says:
part of Stewarts strength is that he works on the psycological as well as the physical. He's an expert at bringing out a fighters best side.... Mayorga fought an incredibly tough and measured fight... he started slow,.. and weathered Cottos' assault thru round 5 or 6 and came alive... even went psycho a little. Cotto was forced to conserve energy and pick his spots down the stretch... a mentally weaker boxer would have crumbled. Mayorga prepared himself well and really wanted to win,....hoping to get into the Pacman sweepstakes. Even in losing to the much smaller Cotto and raising the white flag in the last round,.. I thought the journeyman caliber fighter fought over his head for a little while.. The victory for Cotto is better than how it looks on paper... Old Man Mayorga expended every drop of what he had left(hoping for Pac fight).... and Don King took 90% of his half million dollar payday to collect on a lawsuit that he won against Mayorga after he tried to go MMA. MisterLee says:
Cotto boma ye! I still feel the old Cotto would have beaten Pacquiao. The only hold up is those names mentioned aren't top names at 154, but top money fights. So i guess no angulo, kirkland, cintron, williams, martinez in the mix? The new Cotto I'd say would have a good chance with pacquiao, or i'd like to see him fight mayweather too. But yeah, I'm starting to get over Cotto's bodyslam of Clottey (summerslam 2009!) and starting to like him more, esp. since he hasn't cheated to win his last few fights, and he's look better and more like the old Cotto, tho he's boxing more now, and less dependent on constantly setting up the left hook to the body... i wonder if he could still take out alfonso gomez as easily as he did the first time since he was in top form at the time. Holler! MisterLee says:
I also wish cotto would establish some legitimacy of his own at 154, instead of fighting an old foe who's kind of worn, to set up a pacquiao fight. I'd like to see cotto beating pple up for 2-3 more fights, and then setting up a super fight with pacquiao down the line. Cotto angulo, foty don't you think? Radam G says:
Miracle worker can only work that miracle when it is no optical illusion. GBG Manny S's miracles are bunk with Cotto ever beating Da Manny. It ain't gonna happen. Fights between Da Manny and Miguel C are the Iran Barkley-Tommy Hearns types of our tyme. Cotto will whup everybody including Martinez, and could fight Money May to a draw, but he will not go the distance with Da Manny. Da Manny would kayo him quicker the next time around, because of the BIG-TIME nowadays confidence of MC. Confidence is like fire. It can burn. So stay out of the fire that you cannot control. Holla! Real Talk says: How do you figure Cotto can beat Martinez but not Pacquiao when Martinez will flat out kill Pacquiao? Don't hit me with styles make fights either. Cotto has got a better chance with Pac than Maravilla who's a bigger Pac and tough as nails. I'm not buying that at all. Cotto won't beat either looking like he did against Mayorga. He seems to be a sucker for the overhand right. Better get on top of that before the ref be on top of him. Dueces Radam G says: Martinez has benefitted from KNOCKING OUT a MAJOR HYPED-UP bum -- Long, Tall, Paul -- and a drunk, Kelly Pavlik, and a green, not-moving-his-head-and-straight-up-sorry-a$$-European-style-of-fighting MAJOR, HYPED-UP-FOR-HBO bum. Take my word for nothing. Styles would not make a different with Martinez. He has no style. He is a late-starting, good fighter. A light middleweight Sonny Liston type. HBO doesn't believe the hype about Martinez, or it would matched him better and paid him more. A long-list of kick-arse gurus -- GBG Manny Steward, TNT, P4P, No Joke Coach, Freddie Roach, Uncle Roger May, Uncle Jeff May, Pops Joy May, Pops Jack Mosley and tons of others -- know that Martinez is VERY, EASILY, BEATABLE. Radam G says: Hey, Real Talk holla at the boxing site FIGHTHYPE and hit up on "Pacquiao unimpressed with Martinez..." And view the videotape on how Da Manny feels about Martinez. Martinez is not soft or a bum, but he is not in the class of Da Manny, Da Money May, or Da Miguel C. Don't be fooled by the latest hype and all the optical illusions about him. Fighting a bum, a drunk and a geen European softy stiff will help him not with the superbad 3-M elite. Holla! Condor says: Believe me, if Team Pacquiao believed that Martinez would be an easy opponent, it would happen. Both are HBO guys, and the middleweight title is a valuable trinket (even these days). Radam G says: First up, Condor [+] PLUS, if you had the maturity of your age, instead of your childish stage, you would quit fibbing and attacking readers and talk BOXING -- something you apparently cannot comprehend! Your inabilities to agree to disagree and your great ability to manufacture are why you cannot get with CHANGE, and is reverting to your childish behavor of the old sweet science Universe. Too bad that sickling CLONING ability has been taken away from you. Don't even start gettin' jiggy with your childish, cojones-less attacks of ME -- your's truly. Everybodee and dey mommas, pops, brothas, sistas, couzins, in-laws, neighbors, bill-collectors and pet animals, with an iota of brains, know that I seldom pick fights, PERIOD! Don't YOU get IT! Spittin' jive and sayin' who should win, is not picking a WINNER! Quit being a lying SINNER! I have and I will continue to pick Pera Pac and Money May 100 PERCENT of the TIME to WIN. And NOWADAYS, I will PICK "THE FILIPINO FLASH" to win 99.9 PERCENT of the TIME. Wrong is with you , DUDE!!! And WHAT THE FUDGE is WRONG with you, Condor -- in that pseudonym? Trying to turn da awesome Know-dey-syet readers and scribes against me ain't workin! Just enjoy the Universe and pass by my every post, because for you, your sanity is apparently paying a heavy cost. Ya ain't slick. Talkin' about a slow, slow trick. I wonder how many times that you have been hit with a rhetorical brick? If you have a reading comprehension problem -- obviously you do -- maybe you should take up remedial classes. They're free throughout the world, I'm certain. brownsugar says: Contrary to what Stewart said....Pad work is crucial... that's why Roach has Pac doing 10 rounds at a time for Mosely,.. we have some pads at the house...still haven't developed a routine that's worth filming and putting on youtube... that's one gruelling exercise and it's meant more for coordination ,positioning, and punch placement than power augmentation...I remember Stewart saying that Tommy Hearns didn't like jumping rope so he gave him a pass... but if Tommy did more jump rope he could have had the legs to dance his way out of trouble more effectively against Ray Leonard. Just Saying...(not to get into the above debate).... I've been seeing a lot of comments all around the web regarding Martinez vs Pacquiaou. Probably because of the concealed barbs being tossed at Pac from the Martinez camp and the media to instigate web worthy responses from Pac.......and possibly heating the embers of contention into a full blown war. But it'll never happen,.. Pac has never competed against a true junior middleweight/middleweight... and I wouldn't expect him to do so... there's nothing for Pac to prove at 154... the fans have become so accustomed to Pac beating guys at higher weights they think he can fight anybody...But even Pac has his limits... If Arum, Roach, or even Pac himself really thought they had a chance against Martinez the fight would already have already been made. ....Similarly Floyd would've come out of retirement to face Martinez in a Megafight himself....but Martinez has too much speed, strength, boxing ability and desire.. I'd like to see a stop to this trend of the big guys crying out after the little guys and challenge the best in thier own weight class instead... let Martinez call out Pirog,.. or Golovkin... or Korobov... all 3 are world beaters.....but In a way I can't blame Martinez for chasing a multimillion dollar payday... where else can he find it except against the most well known fighters in the sport like Floyd and Pac... but it's extremely unrealistic to even dream that those fights will ever happen. Condor says: Well at least we agree on something Radam. Solis will be obliterated. Radam G says: As I said, Condor, quit being a childish chump and pass my posts by. You are not slicking, so stop tricking. With me, I don't expect for you to ever be clicking. A fight with somebody else, your trif___g arse should be picking. If the Klitschkos were Pinoys, they would know how to fight or QUIT! Did you ever hear of Bobby Pacquiao? Did you see Teddy Atlas and the Hayemaker on ESPN tonight. You are so immature and phony and you know nothing about boxing talk or slanguage. You take everything literally because of your apparent low self-esteem and your trifling agenda to instigate and cause chaos in a near-prefect pugilistic Universe of exchange of views, having fun and shootin' da syet. the Roast says: Hmmm. Decent back and forth Radam and Condor. Not quite at Roast vs anyone level but hey, all fights can't be on PPV can they? Condor says: Again, paragraph after paragraph of your little boy nonsense. Let me ask you something: In your day to day life, do you speak as you write? My God, when you venture out into public, the 911 system must blow up (we've got a guy here, mentally challenged, that clearly has separated from his caretaker - send someone ASAP). You're right, I do read your posts. Call it a morbid curiosity. The diarrhea you've spewed...I marvel at it. Your fascination between Lou DiBella and porn, quack Doc Vitali and his toddlers pee-pee, that ridiculous A-Side meth lunacy you reference all too often, Margarito was innocent (but contested nothing), Panama Lewis was/is righteous, Larry Holmes ducked everyone (but was on-board fighting the wrecking-ball that was Tyson after a long layoff and at nearly 40 years old), Tommy Burns would KO a Klitschko, reach and height are immaterial, on and on and on. Pamesteexappy says: omg <a href="http://www.shaverguy.com/philips-norelco-1250x40-sensotouch-3d ">best electric shaver for african american men </a> best electric shaver for african american men most individuals. 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Manny Steward is the best hired gun out there. He seems to be able to take a damaged fighter and fix them up. I hope he can help Chad Dawson live up to his potential. I really thought that Dawson was gonna be something special after he beat Adamek. Dawson still has time. Look what Manny did for Wlad. 13 wins in a row is pretty impressive. For most people that is.