Cotto gave an outstanding account of himself and Floyd actually seemed like he was in a fight for the first time in a long time. I wonder how much of that was Cotto and how much was Mayweather suffering from his inactivity. He's fought once per year since 2009 after skipping 2008 completely, and his previous fight was the highly-non-competitive debacle against Victor Ortiz, which almost doesn't count. Fighting a tough customer like Cotto at the full 154 was always a bit out of Floyd's comfort zone.
Still, I didn't see the fight as all that close. I had it 118-110 (10-2 in rounds). I could accepted 117-111, but no closer than that. Cotto did well, but didn't land a lot of solid punches. More than most of Floyd's other recent opponents, but that's not saying much. Mayweather was more accurate, more effective with his punches and controlled the action all the way through. At no point, though he won a could of rounds, did Cotto ever have the upper hand or any momentum in the fight.
I've never been a fan of Floyd the human being but as a boxer, wow. He is playing in his own league. He is Pedro Martinez, or Wayne Gretzky. He's not only better than everybody else. He's a lot better.