By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions wants to match their prize WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) against 32-year-old Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) on September 14th on the Mexican Independence holiday for Canelo’s first pay per view bout of his career, if Floyd Mayweather Jr. doesn’t want to fight the light heavyweight-sized Canelo in September.
Cotto, who hasn’t fought since December in losing to Austin Trout, reportedly is interested in facing Canelo for the right price.
As far as I’m concerned, I think a Canelo vs. Cotto fight would be a terrible PPV fight, and I can’t imagine too many fans wanting to purchase the fight on PPV, even if it’s on the Mexican holiday. Cotto has lost his last two fights, and he looked dreadful against Trout.
Cotto would effectively be the old toothless lion being carted out to be ripped to shreds by a young, red-headed, flawed lion with stamina problems. As much I used to like Cotto as a fighter, I don’t think he’d do well at all, and I know I wouldn’t want to purchase this fight.
It would be like Canelo’s fights against aging lions 41-year-old Shane Mosley, 40-year-old Carlos Baldomir and 40-year-old Lovemore N’dou. Cotto is a lot younger than those guys, but he’s got a lot of rough miles on him and I don’t think he’s the same fighter he once was.
If Canelo was willing to give his Mexican fans the same kind of nice deal that he did when he dropped a lot of the ticket prices at the Alamodome to $10, I could see this fight doing well on PPV. If Canelo instructs Golden Boy to have the fight sell for $10 instead of $70, I think Canelo could end up with a massive amount of buys, but I doubt he’ll do that or be allowed to do that.
I see the fight as not being worth even $1. It’s too much of a classis mismatch pitting a lion against a sacrificial lamb and it’s not really interesting to see spectacles like that. It’s like hunting with the ducks trapped in a cage instead of flying around.
Cotto may weigh close to what the 172 lb. Canelo will, but he’s not a natural junior middleweight. I don’t Canelo is a natural junior middleweight either. I think he’s a natural super middleweight right now fighting guys well below his weight. Cotto would likely come into the fight at 165, so Canelo would only have a 7-10 pound weight advantage by the time he stepped inside the ring with him.
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