Geale glad Cotto looking past him

By Boxing News - 06/02/2015 - Comments

geale422(Photo credit: Hoganphotos/Roc Nation) By Dan Ambrose: With WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) seemingly looking past challenger Daniel Geale (31-3, 16 KOs) for their fight on Saturday towards a fight a big money pay-per-view fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, Geale believes that Cotto is taking it for granted that he’s going to win this fight.

Geale is both amused and taken aback by one of his opponents overlooking him. Geale acknowledges that he was easily beaten by Gennady Golovkin last year in three rounds, but he doesn’t see Cotto as having the same kind of size and talent that Golovkin possesses.

Geale doesn’t think Cotto can do what Golovkin did because he’s not in the same league as the Kazakhstan fighter, and he’s going to look to prove that on Saturday.

Geale has been to the United States twice before in losses to Darren Barker and Golovkin, but he feels like the third times a charm. Geale really likes his chances this time against the smaller and equally old Cotto. Geale’s loss to Barker was a fight that could have gone either way. It was a narrow decision win for Barker.

The Golovkin fight was a different story. It was a case of Golovkin being too power, and too good at cutting off the ring. Cotto doesn’t have that kind of power, size or the ability to cut off the ring like Golovkin did.

“I believe I’ve got what it takes to beat him,” Geale said to RingTV.com about Cotto. “I’m not just going over to get another loss. I’m coming over to get a win on the board, and take the title back to Australia. He’s going to come right at me. He believes he’s going to be able to break me down and hurt me. I’m a natural middleweight and I’m going to show that as well,” Geale said.

Geale doesn’t like the 157 pound catch-weight that he’ll be fighting with for this fight. He says he was surprised when he learned that Cotto’s team was asking for it. Geale felt that if he didn’t agree to the catch-weight, he wouldn’t have gotten the fight. They would have moved on until they found a middleweight that would be agreeable to the catch-weight. In doing so, it increases the likelihood that Cotto can hold onto his WBC middleweight title.

Geale thinks it’s just wrong for a middleweight champion to be fighting at a catch-weight when defending the title. Geale thinks Cotto should be fighting at the full weight for the middleweight division rather than using catch-weights to try and get an advantage over his opposition by draining water out of them to weaken them enough for him to win.

“It gives me great motivation. People looking past me. That’s what I want them to think. I’ll make thinks as hard as possible, and I’m going to win,” Geale said.

If Geale can beat Cotto, he could potentially wreck his plans for fighting the red-headed Canelo later this year. Cotto can certainly take the fight with Canelo off the back of a loss, but it’ll send Cotto into that fight in a bad light.



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