Manny Pacquiao STOPS Miguel Cotto - 11-14-09

Manny Stops Cotto in the 12th round.....Next Mayweather !!

LAS VEGAS Manny Pacquiao staked his claim atop boxings mythical throne as the pound-for-pound best, using his lightning hand speed to beat and batter Miguel Cotto into submission Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Pacquiao knocked Cotto down once in the third and again in the fourth, pummeled him repeatedly and easily lifted the World Boxing Organization welterweight belt from the Puerto Rican with a 12th-round stoppage. The time was 55 seconds into the final round, as referee Kenny Bayless leaped between the fighters to save Cotto a more savage beating and ignominious end.

Cotto came out strong and was able to land some hard punches, but Cotto was unable to deal with the speed. Pacquiao was landing three shots for every two Cotto did early. After the knockdown in the fourth, Cottos offense was nonexistent as he spent most of the last two thirds of the fight fending off Pacquiaos onslaught.

Cotto landed in single digits in power shots in every round from the fifth forward.

Pacquiao nearly had the stoppage after the 11th when Cotto trainer Joe Santiago walked onto the ring apron and waved his hand at Bayless.

It appeared he was going to stop the fight, but then Bayless and ringside physician James Game spoke and allowed it to continue. It was only extending the misery as Pacquiao poured it on in the 12th.

When the fight ended, the crowd began to chant, We want Floyd! It was a reference to Floyd Mayweather Jr., the other man with a claim to the top of the boxing pound-for-pound list.

Pacquiao, who has won championship belts in five divisions and beat the linear champion in two others, can no longer be knocked as a small man who was beating washed up fighters.

In Cotto, he took on an elite and powerful welterweight whose only loss came under suspicious circumstances to Antonio Margarito last year. There is suspicion that Margaritos gloves were loaded for that fight, though it has never been proven.

But Pacquiao proved he was able to not only take a welterweight punch, but rock him repeatedly. It was clearly a magnificent performance and will create public demand for a fight with Mayweather.

I want to see him fight Mayweather, Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach said.

Santiago said Pacquiao hit harder and was stronger than expected. Cotto injured his left shoulder in the eighth.

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[isdakongsupot]

@odanistorres i agree

[pacisacherrypicker]

next time, dont cherrypick cotto at below welterweight limit. This would have been a way different fight. Roach is a surgical matchmaker (cherrypicker)

Anyway, pac cherrypicked this fight in round 7 of clottey fight when cotto was losing anyway. oh snap.

[dencio1976]

i do agree. he's answers after a win are typically ..i trained very hard for the match and so on.. then he says he's lucky. hehe!

but i didnt think he'd be that confident to have setup the karaoke after his fight with cotto.

but you may be right.

[deliveredin2009]

I do not think it had anything to do with the trainer; remember Cotto was undefeated before this. I do not know boxing like you, but I saw the fight. Cotto was the better fighter. Paquiao got quality punches in and won.  Next time around, Cotto will win. Paquiao's advantage is his personality. He is always at ease and friendly. Most boxers are tense and aggressive. I cannot help but to like him.

[vingzm]

odanitorres

As expected. Too many excuses! Are you saying that you're smarter than Team Cotto because they chose an inexperienced trainer? You're full of yourself!

Kudos to Cotto accepted defeat without excuses! Go Pacman!

[odanistorres]

Hey listen I'm puertorrican and I've been following boxing since I was a kid and I did not think that Cotto could loss this fight and I think he needed an experienced trainer and that was his downfall. Paquiao is great, fast, he has power, stamina and a strong will but I think Mayweather will give him lots of trouble with his stile. Too damn smart!

[615nana]

thanks man

[ArsiniC11]

pacquiao? he just said the same old like he trained hard, cotto one of the best he fought, yada yada yada, avoided the mayweather question, and I found it interesting but apparently he had reserved some stage time at a karaoke later that night because he was that confident he would win LOL

[TheRandy0rton]

i know at least hes Better then Hatton ! who got knock out at 2nd round haha !

[maxka2amsut]

hahah how bout mayweather fans would say another prediction.................all­.......lozers do i spell it correct , then i would rewrite it when pacman kill mayweather