By Jason Kim: After last Saturday’s win for World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) over Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s), there promoter Bob Arum gave his preferences for what he wants Cotto to do next by saying he wants Cotto to fight again in Madison Square Garden in New York, this time against undefeated WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s).

Arum might have to do some major arm twisting to get Chavez Jr. and his team to agree to fighting Cotto in New York, because the surroundings are less than neutral and it’s doubtful that Chavez Jr. would be overjoyed at facing boos from a large hostile Puerto Rican audience.

It would put Chavez Jr. in a strange position, as he’s been pretty well coddled by Arum for the past few years and he’s usually matched where he’s guaranteed to get large pro-Chavez Jr. audiences. Chavez Jr. likely won’t have a large Mexican crowd if he agrees to fight Cotto in New York and that could make it hard for Arum to get him to agree to this.

Arum might need to make this fight in Las Vegas, Nevada, because I think it might prove too difficult for Arum to get Chavez Jr. to agree to New York. Arum needs to make sure he doesn’t step on Chavez’s toes because he’s going to be around a lot longer than Cotto, and burning bridges this early on isn’t a good thing.

Cotto beat Antonio Margarito last weekend by a doctor’s stoppage in the beginning of the 10th round.