Cotto vs Trout

[JayBee74]

Re: Cotto vs Trout

How about Cotto asking who the fans thought won the bout? Yeah, let the pro Cotto crowd at the Garden determine the winner-sounds fair.

[steelcityjames]

Re: Cotto vs Trout

i have no idea what fight the commentators were watching. normally i like those guys, but they were way off the mark during the entire fight. i think they let the "hometown crowd" cloud their judgement.

[JayBee74]

Re: Cotto vs Trout

i have no idea what fight the commentators were watching. normally i like those guys, but they were way off the mark during the entire fight. i think they let the "hometown crowd" cloud their judgement.

Yeah, it's not like Bernstein appeared pro-Cotto (he thought Trout won), but his assessment of Cotto's performance was too kind. I don't know how all the judges scored the 10th, but I had Trout winning handily, yet Bernstein indicated that Cotto might have stolen the round with a pretty harmless flurry at the very end of the 10th.

[pietasterp]

Re: Cotto vs Trout

I have to be honest, I had absolutely no idea who Austin Trout was before tonight...but consider me impressed. I'm not sure what soundly defeating Cotto on a 12-round decision means at this point, but seeing as how Cotto is now firmly in the "guy-who-if-you-beat-him-you're-a-contender" territory, it appears that Trout is a contender. Yeah, I know he's a title-holder and what-not, but who isn't a title-holder these days? I mean, it's a joke - I think half the guys in boxing have a belt of some sort...

Anyway, Trout showed a lot of skill, is very polished, and seems to be an excellent boxer with a range of punches and techniques. The only thing is he doesn't seem to have is a ton of power, and if he ends up fighting a guy like Canelo Alvarez, that could be a big problem. Also, I don't know that we can make any judgements on Trout's chin based on what we saw last night (he was the much bigger man against a diminished Cotto), but it appears at least adequate. I would say based on one fight, he's a good, solid, but not elite fighter. I reserve the right to change my mind based on future results, though...

As far as Cotto, I just don't know where he goes from here. I am definitely in the camp of people that thinks his superstar potential was derailed by a loaded-glove Margarito - I mean, I just don't think he's ever looked like the same guy since that happened - but I'm also starting to wonder now if maybe his aura of invincibility before the Margo fight was because he just never fought anyone at the elite level before. He really doesn't have any great wins on his resume, and anyone at the highest level that he's fought he lost to. Given where he is now, and his last several fights, he's clearly no longer elite and there are no real compelling fights for him that we don't know what the result will be. If anything, this Trout fight told us that had he fought Alvarez, he'd have been thoroughly dismantled. Looked at another way, if Cotto couldn't beat Austin Trout, he had no business fighting Alvarez.

How badly does Cotto regret not taking a pure cash-grab re-match with Pacquiao at this point? If he was gonna lose anyway, he might as well have lost while cashing a much bigger check...I wouldn't be surprised if he retired at this point to focus on his promotional career. There's really nowhere else to go from a fighting perspective for him.