He's not too small. He can take a welterweight punch. And yes, Manny Pacquiao may be the fastest fighter in the world. Miguel Cotto, a very good welterweight, was taken apart for 12 rounds. By the end of the fight, Cotto had blood leaking from above his left, below his right eye, from nose and mouth. Pacquiao won a seventh title in a seventh weight class, picking up the WBO welterweight title via TKO at 0:55 of the 12th round.
Pacman (50-3-2, 38 KO's) put Cotto on the floor twice, in the third and fourth rounds. Pacquiao's greatness is clear in the fact that it was a short right that produced the first knockdown and a left uppercut that put him on the deck in the fourth.
Cotto had little left by the eighth. His wife Melissa, left the arena with her son after the 10th. Cotto's father begged for a stoppage after the 11th but was overrules by the corner. They couldn't overrule referee Kenny Bayless who saved Cotto in the final stanza.
Pacman outlanded Cotto 336-172 and nailed him with 43-percent of his punches. Over 270 of those punches were to head and 276 were power shots. He landed those with a 49-percent accuracy rate.
Cotto did land some big shots on Pacquiao but the Filipino withstood all of them. He did have some bruising and small cuts under both eyes.
Pacquiao wouldn't say in the cage if wanted Floyd Mayweather Jr. next. His trainer Freddie Roach didn't hold back saying that's the fight he wants.
Source: sports.yahoo.com
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