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Behind The Fight: 10 Years Later - Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto

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Published: May 05, 2022

Time continues to fly by, and in this age of social media, time seems to be going at a rapid pace.

Ten years ago, on May 5, 2012, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Floyd Mayweather Jr (42-0, 26 KOs, 35). took on Puerto Rico's Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KOs, 31) for the WBA super welterweight title. The bout would turn out to be one of the most challenging in the undefeated pugilists' career.

In the same year that the Marvel Cinematic Universe officially began its complete dominance at the movie box office with the release of The Avengers, Mayweather continued his historic run as boxing's biggest attraction. The fight with Cotto would also mark Mayweather's final time appearing on a solely HBO broadcasted telecast as he would sign a historic deal with rival Showtime the following year.

The match would also be Mayweather's final time; he would have the late-great Roger Mayweather as his head trainer.

The fight was dubbed "Ring Kings" and came as a pleasant surprise when first announced, as fans weren't expecting Mayweather to move up in weight to take on Cotto. For years, fans have wanted to see Mayweather and Cotto face one another.

2007 was a pivotal year for both fighters. That year Mayweather established his 'money' persona and had two blockbuster fights with Oscar De La Hoya and Ricky Hatton that turned him from a star in boxing to a household name.

On the other hand, Cotto had firmly established himself as the current Puerto Rican star of the sport with two victories over Zab Judah and Shane Mosley in front of a frenzied crowd at Madison Square Garden that was reminiscent of Felix Trinidad's heyday.

Unfortunately, Mayweather would announce the first of what would turn out to be many retirements keeping him out of the ring for all of 2008 and most of 2009.

The Puerto Rican would continue his career with ups and downs, losing by stoppage to Antonio Margarito in the summer of 2008. The Margarito fight would prove to be highly controversial as Margarito, in his next fight against Shane Mosley, was found to be attempting to load up his hand wraps with a substance that would create plaster of Paris.

The manner in which Margarito defeated Cotto with the Puerto Rican leaving with a puffed and bruised face caused many to question if that fight had taken place under fair and legal circumstances.

Cotto would rebound from the loss to Margarito and win another title at welterweight. But he would run into a Manny Pacquiao that was at his absolute peak. The fight was at a catchweight of 145-pounds, and with Cotto recently leaving longtime trainer and uncle Evangelista Cotto for relatively unknown Joe Santiago, it left him at a disadvantage. Cotto would suffer a 12th-round stoppage at the hands of the Filipino.

Cotto would then move up to the super welterweight division and again change trainers to the legendary Emanuel Steward. Cotto would win the WBA 154-pound title to become a three-division champion at Yankee Stadium against Yuri Foreman. He would make a defense of his title against Ricardo Mayorga, leading him to what would be one of the most important fights of his career.

After serving a 1-year suspension and having his boxing license revoked, Antonio Margarito returned to boxing. He would face off against Pacquiao for the vacant WBC 154-pound title. Pacquiao would dominate Margarito, winning a lopsided decision altering the Mexican's life and career by fracturing his right eye socket and damaging the right eye retina. Margarito would receive eye surgery, replacing a cataract with an artificial lens.

Eventually, after jumping through legal loopholes to try to get re-licensed and medically cleared, Margarito would step in the ring with Cotto in a rematch at Madison Square Garden on December 3, 2011. The rematch would signify a return for Cotto to pick up his career where he left it on the canvas that summer in 2008.

Under new trainer Pedro Diaz, Cotto would dominate Margarito en route to having the fight stopped after nine rounds. It was determined that the damage surrounding the Mexican's eye was too significant to allow him to continue.

Diaz, a former amateur boxer and a longtime Cuban amateur boxing coach who holds a doctorate in Pedagogical Sciences specializing in boxing, brought Cotto to his best form in years.

“If this fight happened before beating Margarito it might not have been the best moment,” Cotto told the L.A. Times. “To come back from things, to regain that confidence in myself, the trust in myself… this is the right moment.”

Mayweather would return to boxing in late 2009 with a massive demand to face Manny Pacquiao. In his return fight, the ingenious 5-division champion would face Pacquiao's rival, Juan Manuel Marquez, winning a one-sided unanimous decision. Mayweather would continue to fight once a year over the next few years facing Shane Mosley in 2010 and Victor Ortiz in 2011 to win the WBC welterweight title.

The fight with Cotto would mark the second time Mayweather had fought in the junior middleweight division. The first time Mayweather fought in the division was against Oscar De La Hoya, whom he defeated by split decision to claim the WBC 154-pound title.

At the time of the fight, Mayweather was ranked as the No.2 pound-for-pound fighter and was as high as a six to one betting favorite. Regardless of the odds, Cotto viewed the fight with Mayweather as an opportunity to solidify his status as one of the best in the world.

"I love the challenging situations in life," said Cotto on HBO's 24/7 documentary series. "This fight for me is the best opportunity I can have to prove and show to the world, what Miguel Cotto is made of. I think he believes Miguel Cotto is the last chapter of his career. He never faced a guy like Miguel Cotto. He's going to see and feel it on May 5."

Heading into the fight, Mayweather was dealing with legal drama outside of the ring. After taking a plea deal to domestic battery charges in late 2011, Mayweather was sentenced to a 90-day jail sentence that would begin less than a month after the fight with Cotto on June 1. How the upcoming jail time would impact, Mayweather was pondered by critics.

Mayweather has always been a person that lived in the present. One of Mayweather's greatest strengths is the ability to stay mentally focused and not allow any outside distractions to impact his performance in the ring.

"May 5 is just another day for me," Mayweather stated on HBO's 24/7. "You know I don't live that for from the strip. The only thing I'm going to do is hop into one of my toys, drive 10 mils down the street and give the fans what they want to see."

There was little to no animosity between Mayweather and Cotto in the lead-up to the fight. But, at the weigh-in, the two experienced boxing superstars had to be separated after a lengthy stare down that saw both men trash talk one another.

Mayweather has been a fighter that has kept an undefeated record through multiple weight classes and hasn't lost many rounds. Such dominance can be taken for granted, and it is difficult to change that perception for his opponents in tightly contested rounds.

"Floyd Mayweather has been so dominant that in his fight the question is not who, but how and when?" said HBO commentator Larry Merchant before the start of the first round. "It is up to Miguel Cotto to change that perception and that script."

The fight would exceed expectations and be best described as closer than it first appeared.

The first few rounds of the fight were highly competitive, with Mayweather holding an edge in punches landed with his jab and a looping right-hand landing throughout. Cotto, however, used his jab to time Mayweather and, whenever in close, landed shots to the body that often went unnoticed by HBO's commentary team.

Defensively, Mayweather kept a tight guard that rarely allowed for clean punches to the land on the head. But Cotto also had an adept defense catching most of Mayweather's blows with his gloves.

The complexion of the fight changed in the middle rounds as Cotto began to get Mayweather on the ropes and land his jab more consistently. In a rare occurrence, Cotto outboxed Mayweather in the center of the ring in the sixth round. At one point, Cotto landed a pair of jabs that forced Mayweather to acknowledge the Puerto Rican’s skillset.

The eighth round was the clearest round for the Puerto Rican. He out-landed Mayweather and punished him against the ropes landing jabs and hooks to the body and head. The crowd in attendance went into a celebration at the site of Mayweather bleeding from his nose. It was the first time in years that the usually unshakeable master boxer looked vulnerable.

"A clear win in this round for Miguel Cotto," stated HBO's Jim Lampley after the eighth round. "And there may be scorecards here that have the fight even at this point."

Larry Merchant also remarked, "Mayweather hasn't lost a round this clearly and solidly in some time."

The ninth and tenth rounds were contentious, with both men having their moments. However, Cotto couldn't replicate the success he found in rounds 5-8.

Mayweather separated himself in the final two rounds with his conditioning as he used lateral movement while landing and throwing combinations.

Mayweather has always opened and closed exceptionally well in his career, and against Cotto, it would be no different. Much like the first round, the 12th-round was arguably Mayweather's clearest round. With fatigue playing a factor, he was able to hurt Cotto with an uppercut that staggered the Puerto Rican. Cotto remained vigilant and stood his ground, but it was clear that he wasn't in the best position to pull off a victory.

After 12-rounds, Mayweather was awarded a unanimous decision victory with scores of 118-110 and 117-111 twice.

Before the fight, Mayweather questioned what kind of opponent Cotto would be. Would he be one that came to have his hand raised with a win or one that would just survive?

"I think that fighters that come to fight, nine times out of 10 go out in a blaze of glory either on their back or on their face," said Mayweather. "It's up to the fighter. You got some that come to survive. Which fighter is he?"

Cotto would prove to be one of Mayweather's most stout challenges. According to CompuBox, Mayweather landed what may have been the lowest percentage of his career at 26% of his total punches. In his previous nine fights before facing Cotto, Mayweather averaged a 46% connect rate.

Mayweather-Cotto was a massive success at the box office, selling 1.5 million pay-per-view buys and generating over $12,000,000 at the live gate. The fight would fall into the top five of Mayweather's highest grossing PPV only behind his fights with De La Hoya, Saul Alvarez, Manny Pacquiao, and Conor McGregor.

In the ring, Mayweather conceded the challenge that Cotto provided. He did so after the fight as well.

"Emanuel Augustus was tough," said Mayweather after the fight. "Miguel Cotto was tougher. Miguel Cotto was the toughest fighter; I've faced thus far. He tried to come on stronger in the later rounds, which made me fight harder. He brought out the best in Floyd Mayweather."

While Cotto didn't walk away with a victory over Mayweather, he took some solace knowing that he brought out the best in the fighter that would be widely considered the best of his generation.

To this day, Mayweather's fight with Cotto is praised as one of the most exciting fights in Mayweather's entire career and remains a fan favorite.

(Featured Photo: Al Bello/Getty Images)

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*chin hands at you* You. Me. Warm candlelight. A plate full of spaghetti between us. What's that? The spaghetti is actually an infodump about Raph's Philly Shell Stance? Ohohoho. Yes please. I will have seconds. We will share a string of spaghetti, by which I mean you will infodump at me and I will stare adoringly at you while your little raccoon hands throw spaghetti all over my house. The spaghetti is still Raph's Philly Shell Stance.

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[inhales sharply] I wrote half of it as a reblog to the ask I sent last night then I got distracted reading hold on I’ll go get it. @justalotoffanfiction tagging you so you’ll know I answered

*the sounds of a raccoon pile driving through a trash bin, utter chaos*

Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok. Ok.

Raph’s got all that protective gear on his left arm in the second movie. Makes sense he’s probably right handed and when he’s fighting the left is likely the arm that he leads with.

Now we obviously can’t draw any conclusions in the first movie, because the turtle is running around with no pants on and his fighting style consists of “throwing himself shell first” though! They do lay the groundwork for him fighting defensively (shell first) and we see that alongside Donnie he can clearly come up with plans because it was his idea to take out Karai or “little miss sunshine”. Now. In the second movie. The only fight scene we see is him getting bodily picked up (btw Leo walks directly into a close line but that’s anger for another day) though he is punching Rocksteady With His Right Hand. I don’t. Um. Count Kraang fight. Let’s just say I haven’t seen past the plane scene in A While.

Now. Thinking about his weapon, the Sai. Sais? Fandom has me confused on plural on that one but it’s all ok, but anyway the Sai are a defensive weapon, and there’s that post thats been going around explaining how Splinter gave the turtles weapons that balance out their personalities, ie giving Raph the defensive weapon to teach him to control his snap judgements of stab first ask questions later (was it worded like that? No. Can I remember however? Also no.) and it’s kinda poetic that he has a weapon specifically designed to take out swords 👀. Anyway

The Philly Shell Stance. Obviously it has Shell in the name which is just. Hilarious. But! It’s a defensive stance. I’ll link a video explaining the different famous boxing stances, but the only other truly “defensive” stance is the Peekaboo, and it’s only really helpful if you’re tiny going up against someone Raph Sized.

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Now the reason I think Raph uses the Philly Shell Stance, is because he has all that “armor” on his lead arm. I think he just lets the hits roll off his shoulder and bobs out of the way, keeping his hand across his stomach also gives him a pretty large range of vision to respond to threats, and if someone’s going to run at him he’s got that arm low to create some space. It’s a stance you gotta be in the moment for, and you gotta be able to think quickly, which I think Raphie boy can do despite being the “hot head” of the group. I’ll link another fight, Probably a Floyd Mayweather video, that shows a Philly Shell in action. I really wish the fight scenes in the second movie had been less cartoony, cuz theirs so much cool stuff that could happen.

^ just a Philly shell stance only video in case you don’t wanna watch ten whole minutes lol

^ really good video on Manny Pacquiao (who I always root for) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. you can see Mayweather is using Philly Shell, that’s his style, but you can see the vicious return jabs he’s able to give whenever his opponent goes for a swing and he’s just able to roll the hit off his shoulder and immediately respond. Now.

Imagine that’s Raph. And Imagine 6’5” (film height) just returning that kind of jab when he’s fighting.

Thank you for coming to my Turtle Talk!

#ask away!#spaghetti everywhere #I am so sorry to people that don’t watch boxing #boxing #fighting #blood

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