Winner and Why
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With Miguel Cotto’s experience and improved training with Freddie Roach, there’s no reason why he shouldn’t mop the floor with Daniel Geale. Geale simply doesn’t have the confidence or poise to beat Cotto, and it shows. Geale has a jittery presence about him when he fights that makes him easy to pick apart. He isn’t great at making adjustments and his game plan in the ring is often unclear.
There are two ways to beat Cotto. Either you have to destroy him in a fight and knock him out. Or, you have to supremely outbox him. And I don’t mean just moving around and throwing a nice jab here and there. You have to break him down bit by bit.
Geale is more of a boxer, though he doesn’t have the skills to break Cotto down. He doesn’t have more than a fighter’s chance to win, but I think this fight will still produce a lot of action. I predict Cotto will walk away from this with a victory by KO.
