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Regardless, there's little doubt about this fight's potential. It may well provide more excitement than we've been "recently" exposed to given the Boxer/Puncher matchup between Cotto and Canelo.
This is another fight I missed. I have always felt that Cotto takes to many shots in his fights, and felt this would be his undoing against a heavy hitter like Canelo. I thought the fight would depend on how much punishment Cotto could take. I still think Cotto is a shot fighter, who has carefully selected his opponents the last few years.
My only question about this fight was how much of Canelo's strength would be sapped from losing so much weight. He seems to balloon up between fights. He has the power to beat smaller fighters, but with bigger guys who can bag as hard as he does, he may run into conditioning problems if the fight turns into a war that goes into the late rounds. If he fights GGG, we will see this.
The effectiveness of Canelo’s defense was underlined by the CompuBox punch stats, and particularly the poor success rate of the Cotto jab – the punch off which Cotto’s offense operates. Cotto threw 374 jabs, but connected with just 54 of them, a paltry 14 percent. His power punch figures were somewhat better – 75 of 255 landed, or 29 percent. But Canelo’s power punches were the offensive story of the night, as he landed 118 out of 298, nearly four of every ten he threw.
Again, I didn't see a close fight, and the way it looks on paper is the way it looked to my eyes. I thought the first few rounds were close but I couldn't see any way to not give the decision to Canelo beyond that.
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