Being a TRUE Middleweight, REED Has Little Doubt Cotto Handles McClellan's Shots w/No Problem...In Fact, Wouldn't Surprise REED @ All, if Cotto OVERPOWERED McClellan... It'd Resemble Cotto-Martinez.... REED:up:
"Mediocre"???... Cotto's UNDEFEATED @ Middleweight...He's NEVER Lost a Middleweight Fight...& He's the LINEAL Middleweight Champion...There's Literally NATHAN Suggesting he's a "Mediocre" Middleweight... REED:nono:
That's such a ridiculous criteria, LOL So now every middleweight that can't handle the punches of one of the hardest hitters in the division's history isn't a TRUE middleweight?
every 160 pounder that can't easily deal with Gerald McClellan's punches has no business fighting at 160 you heard it here first
Yeah, Yeah, McClellan was a MURDEROUS Puncher & Sure, he was Bigger, Taller (6'2), Stronger & More Athletic than Cotto, but How EXACTLY Does McClellan Keep the 5'7, Short Armed, Smaller, LINEAL Middleweight Champion (w/a MarcianoESQUE Record of 1-0, 1 KO @ the Weight) OFF of him???... There's just NO Way... Cotto's Toooo Much of a MAN...Toooo Much of a TRUE Middleweight... REED:blah:
Hugo Corro was the lineal, undisputed middleweight champion of the world... Roy Jones held only a portion of the championship Therefore, Corro should be expected to easily sweep him aside
Honestly, I crack up every time I REED this post. It's beautifully, ridiculously absurd. MTF :laughing:
Only because GGG has fought shit competition means it's meaningless. It's fair to say Cotto embodies a champion moreso than GGG. At least Cotto beat the lineal champion. GGG won an interim title. Ironically, Sam Soliman is a more legitimate champion than GGG.
his only FIGHT at the weight is against an old, injured champion. he weighed in at 155 lb. signs point to him probably not being a legit MW
"any world class fighter who has won titles in multiple divisions and faced off against world class elite competition his whole career that nobody in their right mind would even consider picking over gerald mcclellan largely due to the size disparity... is not a true middleweight"
You don't have to make this comparison against McClellan, though. There are a lot of mediocre MWs Cotto, a world class fighter otherwise, wouldn't beat. He'd get knocked out by a lot of them.
Sugar Ray Leonard was the official light heavyweight champion, would you say he was a light heavy? It doesn't really matter if Cotto has the lineal title. It happens on occasion that in boxing, through the vagaries of sanctioning bodies, old age, or other circumstance, a fighter is able to opportunistically move up & capture a belt or lineal title in a division they would otherwise have no business being in.
the Oscar De La Hoya who lost to Bernard Hopkins at 160 very likely beats the Martinez Cotto beat at 160. had that happened, I guess you'd call DLH a middleweight too?
So if you are a weak champion of a weightclass, you aren't a TRUE representative of that weightclass... Got it
I invite you, like REED, to find one example of me saying or implying that Cotto is a good middleweight or that it is his optimum fighting weight
