Role Reversals: Cotto the better boxer last night, Shane the stronger fighter late

[Fedor Em]

Last night what really impressed me about Cotto is he was outjabbing Shane and set up some beautiful right hands, his timing was better than Mosleys, he was outboxing Shane in the middle rounds, and it made Mosley hesitant.

After about round 7 I said to myself "Cotto might stop Shane, he looks to be the superior boxer tonight, and Shane is starting to show his age"

What impressed me about Mosley after that is he came on stronger late and had Cotto hurt in the 9th round and backpeddling for the rest of the fight after that. Also in the 10th or 11th he doubled up on left hooks to the body that had an effect on Cotto. He was beating Miguel at his own game like Cotto had done to Mosley earlier.

I had this fight even or maybe 7-5 Cotto but I was completely shocked the way the fight turned out.

[justsightseeing]

you are spot on. I thought Shane was ready to go as well as he was taken a WHOLE lot of clean power shots. To the naysayers we should watch the fight again and count how many times Shane shook his head acknowledging that Cotto got him with a good shot. I count over 10 times at least. Then Cotto was doubling and tripling his jab. If he kept it up he would of had a better chance of getting shane out of there. Cotto blocked a whole lot of Shanes shots. Since when does a clubbing right hand look better to judges then a clean str8 right hand that lands with power flush. Cotto is the new Floyd. He has blind haters that are mental

[paulfv]

I totally agree. I thought Cotto would 'close the show,' but instead he took to his bike and got rocked by Shane down the stretch. I had all of the final 4 rounds for the aggressor, Shane.