By Jason Kim: Once beaten light middleweight contender Alfredo Angulo (19-1, 16 KO’s) is very interested in fighting World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), according to Boxingtalk.com.

Angulo’s manager Mike Criscio told Greg Leon about Angulo wanting to fight Cotto. This would be a fight, if Cotto were to ever accept it, very similar to Cotto’s bout with Antonio Margarito in 2008. However, it’s highly doubtful that Cotto will ever fight Angulo unless he was to become Cotto’s mandatory challenger and he was at risk of being stripped of his title.

Angulo doesn’t fight for the same promotional company as Cotto. That’s the first problem. The second issue is that Angulo is too similar to Margarito to get a shot at Cotto. I can’t see Bob Arum ever wanting to put Cotto in with Angulo and risk having Cotto torn apart like he was against Margarito two years ago. Angulo is a like a stronger version of Margarito.

Angulo may not throw 100 punches per round like Margarito used to be able to do, but he throws a lot and they’re thrown with more power than the shots that Margarito throws.

Arum is going to be very careful with Cotto, and either matches him with Manny Pacquiao, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. or Margarito next. He’s not going to throw him to Angulo and let him rip Cotto apart. There’s little doubt that a fighter like Angulo would destroy Cotto, but that’s why Arum wouldn’t be crazy enough to have Cotto fight him in the first place.

Cotto is very lucky that Angulo isn’t currently ranked in the top 15 by the WBA. Angulo is ranked number #1 by the WBO and #7 by the WBC, but the WBA doesn’t have him ranked at all in the top 15. Perhaps Arum might match Cotto against Angulo in the future after Cotto has been beaten again by both Margarito and Pacquiao, and has fought Chavez Jr. At that point, there would no reason to keep Cotto from facing Angulo. But I still doubt Arum would put him in with Angulo even then.