Manny’s punches smother Cotto

LAS VEGAS—Miguel Cotto seemed to be landing more punches than Manny Pacquiao at the start.

By the time referee Kenny Bayless waved off the fight, however, the numbers had reversed itself totally with Pacquiao winning the punching game and scoring a 12th-round technical knockout over Cotto at the MGM Grand’s Garden Arena Saturday night.

The power punches statistics presented by CompuBox clearly showed how Cotto was thoroughly beaten by the new WBO welterweight champion.

Power-punch disparity

Pacquiao landed 276 power punches out of 560 thrown for a 49-percent accuracy, while Cotto—who actually got his pet left hooks going early in the bout—connected on 93 of 300 attempts for 31 percent.

Pacquiao threw a total of 780 punches and landed 336 (43 percent), most of them coming in flurries and from angles that left Cotto befuddled.

In fact, of the 93 power punches landed by Cotto, at least 83 came in the first four rounds. Cotto was estimated to have landed, at the most, just nine power punches from the fifth to the 12th rounds.

Battered and bruised

“I did not see where they were coming from,” Cotto admitted after the fight. The Puerto Rican, whose face was battered and bruised that he needed to be rushed to the hospital after the fight for a precautionary checkup, threw 597 and landed just 172 (29 percent).

Cotto, though was scoring with his jabs a lot, especially early in the fight where he seemed to be dominating Pacquiao.

He connected on 79 jabs out of 297 attempts while Pacquiao landed 60 out of 220 thrown. Both were at 27 percent.

And then there were the numbers from the judges that became moot when Bayless stopped the fight at the 55-second mark of the 12th round.

Judges all for Pacquiao

Judge Adelaide Byrd scored it 109-99, Duane Ford saw it 108-99 and Dave Moretti had it 108-100—all for the only boxer in history to win world titles in seven weight classes.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer had it 108-99 for Pacquiao through 11 rounds, giving Cotto just two rounds.


Commentary: Manny is blazingly fast, amazingly strong, and incredibly tough.


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