As you are all aware of by now, I field a lot of tough questions for our mailbag here at Diamondboxing.com, I have recently been getting a lot of e-mails asking me who I think will win the upcoming fights between Cintron/Angulo, Berto/Urango, and Cotto/Clottey, True to my word, I have decided to answer them for you right below. Thank you for writing in, oh and Edgar from Sacramento, I believe that I did mention that Wards speed and intelligence could make be the difference. In any case, Ward sure did shine didn’t he? Enjoy, and once again thank you all for writing in.
Kermit Cintron vs. Alfredo Angulo- Hard puncher against a hard puncher. Wow, this will surely be a slugfest that’s for sure. In Cintron’s last fight, Cintron faced a speedy tricky southpaw in Sergio Martinez. On my card, Sergio out boxed Kermit easily. In facing Angulo, the good news is that Kermit will not be facing a tricky speedy boxer this time around, but the bad news is that he was rocked by Martinez pretty bad, not to take anything away from Martinez’s power, but if Cintron was hurt by Martinez that bad, then simply just imagine what will happen the second that Angulo lays his paws on him. Many fans compare Angulo to Margarito, in this fight coming up we will get to see if Angulo also has Tony’s iron chin. The thing is that, when fighting against a puncher like Kermit, in my opinion if you are able to walk through his huge rights as Tony did, Kermit at that time begins to fall apart mentally. On paper, Kermit will be Angulos toughest test, but no fight is ever fought on paper, I am picking Angulo to overwhelm Kermit with heavy lethal shots , while images of Margarito replay in Kermit’s mind. Angulo by knockout somewhere around the 7th or 9th round.
Andre Berto vs. Juan Urango- Urango is strong, Urango is a very heavy fisted fighter, Urango is a beast. Urango’s opponent, Mr. Andre Berto is stronger, even heavier fisted, and is a monster. Oh and that speed, that speed of Berto’s will be the biggest difference in this clash. Point blank, the things that Urango does best are all things that Berto can do better. ” Anything you can do, I can do better, I can do anything better than you.” Berto will be humming that very same tune come fight night. I am expecting Berto to outclass Urango for a comfortable 12th round unanimous decision.
Miguel Cotto vs. Joshua Clottey- Cotto can outbox the tough Clottey by taking the gas out of Clottey early so in the later rounds when Clottey tries to go into second gear there won’t be enough gas left in his tank. To achieve this, Cotto must go to the body hard, and must start early. Clottey is an animal who is at his best when countering, Clottey has a high guard that seems to block anything coming in. I don’t believe that I have ever seen Clottey hurt, but then again I have never seen him in against someone with bone crushing power like the power belonging to Cotto. Cotto’s best chance on winning this bout is to use the same plan that he used when he faced Margarito, to control the pace of the fight with constant movement. However, Cotto must add a lot more bodywork in this war than he used against Margarito. It is imperative for Cotto to stick and move because if the Boriqua Bomber comes to bomb away, I can see Clottey countering Cotto with a big right hook and stopping him in his tracks. Clottey is an excellent fighter, the only knock on him is that sometimes when he counters, Clottey tends to take a step back to admire his work. My advice to Clottey would be to follow up on your work, finish the painting that you are painting first, then afterward you can admire your masterpiece. I think that Clottey will win the fight but Cotto will get the nod. This has the makings on being like the Cotto/Mosley fight, in that fight, I felt that Mosley won the fight by taking the last 2 rounds, but Cotto got the nod because some of those middle rounds were too close to call. I can see the same thing happening here. Clottey would need to knock out Cotto to win or knock him down at the very least in order to get some breathing room on the cards. This fight has a De La Hoya/Quartey feel to it, Cotto as the boxer, slugger De La Hoya, and Clottey as the high guard, laser stiff jab Quartey. Cotto by Sd.
