(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Former three time world champion Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) was a beaten tonight in getting badly schooled by unbeaten WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. Cotto was on his bicycle from the 5th round on, getting tagged by hard uppercuts, jabs, you name it. Trout’s uppercuts really did Cotto in from the 5th round. He landed some really big uppercuts to the head of Cotto.

Trout asked Saul “Canelo” Alvarez if he wanted to fight him next after the fight, and Canelo walked away without giving a comment. It’s no secret that Alvarez wanted Cotto to win the fight to that they could have a big mega fight match up on May 4th, the Mexico Cinco de Mayo holiday. Now that dream is up in smoke and it doesn’t look like Alvarez wants to tangle with Trout.

With Cotto now having lost his last two fights you have to wonder whether it’s time for the 32-year-old Cotto to hang up his gloves. Cotto really wasn’t competitive in this fight with Trout, and missed shots all night long against the superior Trout. I think it might be the best thing for Cotto to do because when you start losing over and over again it suggests that it’s time to retire.

Cotto got hurt by a body shot from Trout in the 9th round that caused Cotto to turn his back and walk away. It looked like he was quitting, but the referee scored it a low blow despite the fact that it was belt line shot. Cotto should have been knocked out from that shot.