By Dan Ambrose: Having failed in a loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. last weekend, former WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) is kicking around the idea of moving up to middleweight to go after one of the champions to try and win another title. If successful, it would be the 31-year-old Cotto’s fourth division world title. He’s already won world titles at 140, 147 and 154.

Cotto said to Elnuevodia.com “Possibly. It’s a very attractive option.”

At 160, the short 5’7 1/2″ Cotto would to be selective in who he chooses if he didn’t want to suffer yet another loss. I think Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. would be too big for him, Dmitriy Pirog too slick and busy, Daniel Geale too mobile, but Felix Sturm could be vulnerable against a fighter like Cotto.

Obviously, the fighter that Cotto would be looking to fight is Chavez Jr., and not the less popular middleweight champions I mentioned. Getting a fight against Chavez Jr. would be as easy as 1-2-3 for Cotto, because his ex-promoter Bob Arum has talked about wanting to match the two fighters, and he’d likely jump at the chance to pit the two guys against each other if Chavez Jr. doesn’t get beaten first by Andy Lee next month in their fight on June 16th.

The hulking 6’1″ 180 pound Chavez Jr. might have too much size for Cotto, however. How Chavez Jr. makes 160 time after time without being weakened from making weight is beyond me. He’s one of the few fighters in boxing that can drop 20 pounds of weight during dehydrating and then put the weight back on after the weigh-in without being sluggish and weak. Cotto would have an awful time against someone as big as Chavez Jr. unless he was able to get him out of there early in the fight. I doubt Cotto would be able to stop Chavez Jr. because he takes a really good shot and just keeps coming forward.