With now nine days separating the world from the clash of the year, experts and fans alike have frenzied up the Firepower discuss to its boiling point. You’ve hear the point of view Cotto is stronger. Pacquiao is a 2-1 preferred; Cotto is a supposed odds-beater. Naturally, if you’re a admirer of one and not the other, you’re probable to consider whichever side of the fight favors your fighter.

Each fighter’s capability to adapt to his opponent’s method will eventually determine who holds the edge in this clash. Cotto’s power benefit only matters if he lands power shots. Likewise, Pacquiao’s speed benefit only matters if he gets his punch off before receiving hit back.

Let’s take a look at both boxers. There may be no guy in boxing today who makes improved in-fight adjustment than Miguel Cotto. In addition, no boxer has exhibited the capability to add skills to his arsenal from fight-to-fight improved than Cotto. When the bell ring for Cotto’s 2007 matchup with ShaneMosley, Cotto prove to be more than a brawler by not only thrashing Mosley, but besting him at his own match by out-boxing him. He also cruelly dismantled Zab Judah, another polished and quick southpaw who, theoretically, had the tools essential to win the clash. In together cases, any apparent advantage his opponent had was render moot by Cotto’s highest timing and continued pressure.

For all of his strength, Pacquiao has never exhibit the same flexibility. When faced with difficulty, his stamina and authority alone have typically given him an edge over his opponents. In life and death battles next to Juan Manuel Marquez, Pacquiao relied upon his never-ending provide of energy to outlast Marquez. Against Cotto, though, that similar method could get him knocked out.

Pacquiao is certainly faster, and Freddy Roach has a suitable point when he say that Cotto is hittable. A particular anxiety for Cotto is his vulnerability to the uppercut. When you think Pacquiao’s speed and power, that susceptibility becomes very unnerving. Cotto has proven susceptible to other punch as well; particularly the directly left hand against southpaws.

I only have one guess for this clash, and it’s not on whom the victor will be it’s that this will be a brutal clash that goes the distance. If Freddy Roach expect Pacquiao to hit and not get strike, then he’ll probable be fighting on his toes in its place of sitting down on his punches and throw authority shots.