By Dan Ambrose: If Golden Boy Promotions wants Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) to step in and fight WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (42-0-1, 30 KO’s) on September 14th then they’re going to have to give Cotto a nice payday.
According to fightnews.com, Cotto is eying a payday of $10 million for a Canelo fight for what would be a pay per view bout if the fight takes place.
Considering that Canelo has never head-lined a PPV bout before and hasn’t proven himself yet as a PPV draw, it’s questionable whether a Cotto-Canelo bout would draw enough PPV buys for Cotto to get a $10 million guaranteed payday.