Roach: Cotto is going to kick Canelo’s backside

By Boxing News - 11/15/2015 - Comments

roach5By Dan Ambrose: According to WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) is going to get his backside kicked on Saturday night when the two non-trash talking fighters go at it on HBO pay-per-view. Roach sees Cotto as being the more talented fighter of the two, and he’s even bet money on Cotto winning the fight.

Roach doesn’t say how much money he’s bet, but with Canelo being a 2:1 favorite in the fight, Roach can get a nice payday out of the fight if he bets some of his Manny Pacquiao money on Cotto.

“We’re going to kick some [backside] and take some money home,” Roach said.

If Canelo loses this fight it’s going to be a major blow to his promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions. De La Hoya’s once huge promotional company has lost many of his top fighters recently, and Canelo is one of the last big names that he has.

Canelo has already been beaten once by Floyd Mayweather Jr., and some say that Canelo has been beaten three times. De La Hoya says Canelo’s loss to Mayweather was due to him being young and weight drained because of the 152lb catch-weight for the fight. Canelo is now 25, and according to De La Hoya, he now has his “man strength” and is at his ideal weight at 155lbs.

If Canelo loses to Cotto on Saturday, then De La Hoya will be out of excuses for his red-haired rooster. The only thing that De La Hoya will be able to say is that maybe the 155lb catch-weight was too low for Canelo, and that it’s time for him to finally move up to the full weight for the middleweight division at 160lbs.

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I don’t know how a fighter as heavy as Canelo still stubbornly insists at fighting at 155lbs, because with him rehydrating to 175, he’s forced to lose 20 pounds of water weight each time he fights. That’s really hard on a person’s body to take that weight off and put it back on again.

I don’t know how Canelo is able to take that much weight off in the week of the fight and then put it back on overnight without it hurting him. Canelo is not going to be able to do that permanently without it eventually catching up to him and hurting him for one of his fights.

It might even be this fight with Cotto that Canelo finally faces the reality that he can’t put his body through the ringer by draining all that water weight off all the time. The guy needs to be fighting at the full weight for the middleweight division already. You can make an argument that in rehydrating to 175, like Canelo has been doing, he is heading towards light heavyweight.

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Cotto is going to doing his to make sure that Canelo gets beaten once again. He’s not going to stand stationary for Canelo, and make it easy for the flat-footed to have an opponent that is right there in front of him like we saw in Canelo’s fights against Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland.

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