Cotto-Mayorga: Will Ricardo destroy Arum’s #2 cash cow?

By Boxing News - 01/21/2011 - Comments

Image: Cotto-Mayorga: Will Ricardo destroy Arum's #2 cash cow?By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum was thinking he would get a fighter with a name to draw fans for the March 12th fight of his number #2 cash cow WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s). Former two division world champion Richard Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s), now 37, was spotted and the thinking was that he would help draw the casual boxing fan to help make the March 12th PPV card a success in getting PPV buys.

The hope here is that Mayorga is so old and past it that Cotto, even this beaten up version, will be good enough to take Mayorga out before he lands enough punches to make Cotto quit again. But I have a feeling that Mayorga is going to wreck Cotto’s world and ruin his planned big money fights against Antonio Margarito, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Manny Pacquiao in 2011 and 2012. I have a feeling that Mayorga is going to get in really good shape for this fight, which will be taking place at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, and is going to put a serious hurting on Cotto and take him out in Margarito-esque fashion.

Mayorga may be 37, but he’s a fresh 37 because he’s only fought once in the past three years. Mayorga hasn’t taken a lot of punishment during his career and has always spread his fights out over time instead of taking one hard fight after another the way that Cotto has done. Mayorga gave Shane Mosley pure hell in 2008, and I had Mayorga ahead at the time that Cotto stopped him in the 12th round.

But can you imagine what Arum will be thinking if Mayorga takes out Cotto and ruins his grand plans of putting him in with Margarito in the Summer. I guess Arum will go ahead and match Cotto with Margarito anyway even if Mayorga rips him apart, but fans won’t be interested in seeing the fight if Mayorga whips Cotto and leaves him a bloody and battered mess on the canvas.



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