Pacquiao Admitted that He is Hurt with the Hook of Cotto

A regular fighter could easily crumbled in the powerful punches of Cotto, But not Manny Pacquiao. Manny Pacquiao wearing an ear cap, a kind of plastic protection wrapped around his right ear, which was drained of blood shortly after the fight. Manny Pacquiao admitted that his ear is on pain. Pacquiao singled out Cotto’s uppercut and left hook as the most lethal in the Puerto Rican’s armory. He said that there is a lot of hook that fall unto his head and he said that his a little bit drowsy on it. He was affected with those power shots. "Even it hurt on some of his blow, I pretend not to show it, so that it is not obvious that I am hurt with his blow"he added. After battering Cotto relentlessly and knocking him down in the third and fourth rounds, Pacquiao said the fight should have been stopped even earlier. After the fight, Pacquiao held a post-fight party concert at the Mandalay Bay. He then attended an afternoon mass the following day as sort of thanksgiving. Along with his family, including wife Jinkee and estranged parents Rosalio and Dionisia, Pacquiao rode the customized “Pacman Bus" provided by Top Rank on the way back to Hollywood. Jinkee and members of the Pacquiao family spent the night at their multi-million house in Hancock, Los Angeles, while Manny himself chose to go straight and retire in his high-end Palazzo apartment.

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Highlight Of the Fight of Pacquiao and Cotto: See This to know how cotto defeated

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Last Weight-In of Pacquiao and Cotto:Invades all the mind of people wordwide

It id amazing to see every Pinoy with a smile on their face for the champion “Manny Pacquiao”, everyone aggress on the great champion tonight, as said by one of the pinoy fans of Manny Pacquiao. “He is a true fighter for the people and for this he will bring great strength to the ring. Watch this video for the last weight-in of the two “Manny Pacquiao-Miguel Cotto.

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Pacquaio Vs. Cotto : Is Cotto Will Be a Mexican Hero?

Mexican said, they want to see cotto beat pacquiao. Cotto would be mexican hero...If Pacquiao keeps throwing punches wide open he gonna get caught and destroyed by cotto easily. If pacquiao fights smart and wise then he will be trouble for cotto because of speed....

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Bob Arum, an American Promoter:Predicts a Brutal Ending

Bob Arum, an american promoter predicts a brutal ending in the world welterweight bout Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto.

“The reason this fight is creating so much attention is because of the fact that people who know boxing are baffled as to how this fight is going to turn out.” says Arum.

Arum though sees the fight to be stopped in the later rounds but won’t be surprised if the fight lasts the distance that is set for 12-rounds at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

“I know how the fight is going to start and the question is can Miguel handle Manny’s speed early on and can Manny handle Miguel’s power early on?” said Arum. “They’re gonna both be aggressive in the beginning. If that doesn’t work for either of them, then you’ll see Miguel resorting to be a counter-puncher and Manny going on the attack.”

Arum believes his latest promotion might be one of the most successful promotions he has ever staged owing to the marketability of both Cotto and Pacquiao.

“What boxing always needs is a charismatic figure that people want to see and an opponent who can give him very tough battle,” said Arum “We have Manny Pacquiao as the charismatic figure in boxing and Miguel Cotto as a tremendously powerful welterweight that stands in his way. That captures everyone’s imagination.”

Meantime, Pacquiao on Tuesday concluded his training at the Wild Card Gym in Hollywood with a four-round sparring opposite Ray Beltran.

“He’s sharper than before and I don’t see him losing this bout,” said Beltran.

Beltran has been part of Pacquiao’s sparring partners in the Filipino’s bout with Juan Manuel Marquez, Erik Morales, and Oscar De La Hoya.

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Can Cotto Keep Pace with Pacquiao?

The diminutive Pacquiao, boxing's acknowledged pound-for-pound king, will move north in weight once again to fight Cotto, the current WBO welterweight champ, at an agreed-upon catch-weight of 145 pounds. Can Cotto Keep Pace with Pacquiao? Those questions still haunt Cotto's career more than a year later. HBO commentator Max Kellerman agrees that the verdict is still out on Cotto. He sees the fighter's best blueprint for beating Pacquiao in Cotto's victory over Shane Mosley in December 2007, but wonders whether Cotto has that kind of fight left in him. "The dominant question here is whether Cotto can handle Pacquiao's speed," Kellerman says. "And the good news for Cotto is that his timing was able to offset Mosley's speed, and Mosley's lightning fast. But is this the same Cotto who beat Mosley? He cuts more easily now, and he doesn't seem as quick as he once did. And in Pacquiao, he's going to have to offset a guy who at this moment is faster than Shane, and who's a southpaw, and who has just shown us that he can really punch, even at these higher weights." There's no doubt that Pacquiao presents a frightening package to any opponent right now, but he's not without question marks himself, particularly when faced with a proven heavy-handed puncher of Cotto's size and caliber. "The question for Manny is, 'Can he take a shot from a guy who has more than respectable power as a welterweight?'" Fischer says. "Because I think Cotto has the ability to catch Pacquiao and hurt him." "Pacquiao has looked great in his last three fights," says RingTV.com's Doug Fischer, "but he's also fought the perfect opponents, the perfect guys to make him look like a million bucks." Of course, whether Pacquiao could handle the power of naturally bigger men has been the primary subplot heading into his three most recent fights, and each time he answered with a resounding "yes" and with increasingly spectacular emphasis. Last June, in his first fight above 130 pounds, he dominated then-WBC lightweight champ David Diaz. Six months later, he moved all the way up to 147 pounds and destroyed Oscar De La Hoya in an explosive performance that catapulted him to superstardom. Then in May, he followed up his De La Hoya masterpiece with a crushing second-round knockout of junior welterweight champ, Ricky Hatton. It was an astonishing trio of victories that, taken as a whole, would seem to pose quite a convincing response to any doubts about Pacquiao's ability to cope with the size and pop of just about anyone. Still, doubts linger. The Cotto fight should put those doubts to rest one way or the other. "If Cotto still has it, Pacquiao is going to be in there against a natural welterweight in his physical prime with a lot of pride," Kellerman says. And then we'll find things out."

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