have a few big pars riding on the ginger here...understand that roach has another "foolproof' gameplan to thwart an opponent....that`s fine...my guess is that he has cotto trying to outbox alvarez...but at 35 years old and with several fearful beatings under his belt(manny and margarito),the old man is gonna have to prove it to me on what looks like basically enemy turf in vegas(in new York,it might be different...vegas is guadalajara north).........
have to side with the younger,stronger,fresher kid....he may be young but he actually has more fights than cotto....he loses to a 35 year old cotto who has said he`s ready to retire and I think it really damages his brand for a very long time...I think cotto and roach want to cash in with one big payday before miguel says adios...and I`m sure they`d rather take their chances with canelo than golovkin....
quintessential Mexican vs Puerto rican grudge match....the kid`s only loss has been to Money(no shame there)...but if he gets beaten by a smaller 35 year old cotto,it`s a real blemish(or more accurately,a flesh eating bacterial infection) on his record....I`m not putting all that much street cred into cotto`s win over 39 year old and damaged Sergio Martinez...I saw Martinez` previous fight in which he struggled mightily with martin murray in Martinez` own hometown(he was a shell of his former self)....Martinez was off for over a year after murray and was seriously damaged goods going into the cotto fight......
canelo seems to have all the advantages here and if he loses I think it proves that he may be closer to the chavez jr`s of the Mexican boxing world than the chavez sr`s(that might be an over-the-top analogy,but you get my drift...lol)....... ....
he blows here,it`s bad business for him going forward...he`ll catch almost as much flak in mehico as rousey`s catching after getting dummied by holm....he is expected to carry the Mexican boxing mantle going forward..
I have a little leeway to hedge if I see a convincing argument...but I doubt I`ll see one...not buying into the "roach is scottie pippen to cotto`s Michael Jordan" meme....35 is 35....
I`m liking the faves in the wsof tourney in tomorrow night`s opening round...using mamedov and palomino in some pars....ricci "should" beat cobb but cobb can be difficult.....I wish there was an itd prop for zeferino/brian foster....
the bellator card is full of ??(unless you consider parring Houston alexander`s opponent as an automatic play in the vein of going against perennial great fades like leonard Garcia and Jorge gurgel...I don`t know much about alexander`s opponent,though...and that`s a bad way to do business)...
btw...is scott Jorgensen closing in on automatic go against material as a fave in the ufc?...how is he still in the ufc?
have to side with the younger,stronger,fresher kid....he may be young but he actually has more fights than cotto....he loses to a 35 year old cotto who has said he`s ready to retire and I think it really damages his brand for a very long time...I think cotto and roach want to cash in with one big payday before miguel says adios...and I`m sure they`d rather take their chances with canelo than golovkin....
quintessential Mexican vs Puerto rican grudge match....the kid`s only loss has been to Money(no shame there)...but if he gets beaten by a smaller 35 year old cotto,it`s a real blemish(or more accurately,a flesh eating bacterial infection) on his record....I`m not putting all that much street cred into cotto`s win over 39 year old and damaged Sergio Martinez...I saw Martinez` previous fight in which he struggled mightily with martin murray in Martinez` own hometown(he was a shell of his former self)....Martinez was off for over a year after murray and was seriously damaged goods going into the cotto fight......
canelo seems to have all the advantages here and if he loses I think it proves that he may be closer to the chavez jr`s of the Mexican boxing world than the chavez sr`s(that might be an over-the-top analogy,but you get my drift...lol)....... ....
he blows here,it`s bad business for him going forward...he`ll catch almost as much flak in mehico as rousey`s catching after getting dummied by holm....he is expected to carry the Mexican boxing mantle going forward..
I have a little leeway to hedge if I see a convincing argument...but I doubt I`ll see one...not buying into the "roach is scottie pippen to cotto`s Michael Jordan" meme....35 is 35....
I`m liking the faves in the wsof tourney in tomorrow night`s opening round...using mamedov and palomino in some pars....ricci "should" beat cobb but cobb can be difficult.....I wish there was an itd prop for zeferino/brian foster....
the bellator card is full of ??(unless you consider parring Houston alexander`s opponent as an automatic play in the vein of going against perennial great fades like leonard Garcia and Jorge gurgel...I don`t know much about alexander`s opponent,though...and that`s a bad way to do business)...
btw...is scott Jorgensen closing in on automatic go against material as a fave in the ufc?...how is he still in the ufc?
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mayweather made him look slow...but cotto isn`t mayweather and canelo has talent,,he`s not some ponderous,one dimensional wooden indian ala Brandon rios or angulo) .....and at +275 reduced at 5 dimes,it`s hard not to hedge just a little on cotto......so,i`m caving and going the safe(r) route....still lose money if canelo blows here...just won`t be a total catastrophe...let`s mitigate any potential damage...
