By Paul Ward: That’s as good as it gets folks. This time yesterday all of the Miguel Cotto fans who didn’t know who WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout was, were proclaiming Cotto would win easily. I argued that Cotto was in for the fight of his life; just because the boxing world didn’t know who Trout was, didn’t mean he was going to lose.

Trout is fast, has a great chin, and knows how to box. After destroying Delvin Rodriguez, Cotto can now be added to Trouts list of defeats. Trout was largely disregarded as a nobody, but as Cotto fans saw tonight, he is a force to be reckoned with. Cotto along with his fans didn’t give Trout a fair chance because they didn’t do their homework, and sadly Cotto paid the price.

As a Cotto fan myself it is sad that Cotto got beaten up yet again, but it’s surprising that he didn’t see it coming. How could Cotto think that Trout would be an easy fight? I gave every round to Trout except the fifth, and that round could have gone either way.

Cotto is a fierce warrior, but tonight just was not his night; he was defeated by a well-rounded boxer. I’m glad that the judges actually got this one right. Maybe now the Alvarez will stop running from Trout and get in the ring with him. The people here in the Southwest are no push-overs and Trout has made us proud with his performance tonight. Out with the old and in with the new.