QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jun 13, 2009 -> 10:59 PM)
Awesome fight to watch though the scores were LOL worthy. Compubox shows Clottey had blocked pretty much anything meaningful from Cotto. Problem is Clottley kept getting stuck on the ropes, and regardless of Cotto landing next to nothing in those instances (save for round 6), it still looked good for him.
Cotto had to fight 9 rounds with one eye, his cutman was terrible. Clottey was at a huge advantage at that point, and put absolutely zero pressure on Miguel. Had Joshua done this, he would've won the fight rather easily. He fought a poor fight, but this has been the knock on Clottey his whole career. He's incapable of putting pressure on his opponents and tonight he paid for it. Also, Cotto put down Clottey in the first round on a nice straight right. When you take into consideration that Cotto was the one defending his title, and take into consideration all the previous things I mentioned, Clottey did not get robbed.
I've never seen Cotto take so many headshots and NOT get phased by them at all. It's true what they say about Joshua Clottey, he has no power behind his shots, which shows with only 20 KO's in 38 fights
I had the fight:
Round 1: 10-8 Cotto
Round 2: 10-9 Clottey
Round 3: 10-9 Cotto
Round 4: 10-9 Cotto
Round 5: 10-9 Clottey
Round 6: 10-9 Cotto
Round 7: 10-9 Clottey
Round 8: 10-9 Clottey
Round 9: 10-9 Cotto
Round 10: 10-9 Clottey
Round 11: 10-9 Clottey
Round 12: 10-9 Cotto
114-113 Cotto