By Jason Kim: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto says he’d be willing to fight WBC Emeritus champion Sergio Martinez next at 154 pounds if the offer for the fight was a good one, according to an interview by Cotto at elnuevodia. Cotto isn’t pleased that Antonio Margarito is already being mentioned as his next fight when nothing has been confirmed yet on that end. Cotto wants to fight the best and take the best offer. Bob Arum, Cotto’s promoter, has been mentioning Margarito as a likely opponent for Cotto in the summer.
However, if a fight between Cotto and Martinez is the bigger fight, Cotto may nix that idea and go with the fighter with the hot hand rather than someone like Margarito, who has lost two out of his last three fights. You can’t blame Cotto for looking at Martinez first because Margarito won’t give Cotto much clout if he beats him at this point because Margarito has been whipped badly by Shane Mosley and then Manny Pacquiao recently. In contrast, Martinez is fighting at a very high level having beaten Kelly Pavlik, Paul Williams and Sergiy Dzinziruk in his last three fights. Martinez has looked great in each of these fights.
If Cotto takes the Martinez fight first, he can always come back to Margarito afterwards because he’ll still be there and he’s good enough to take on someone else and win while he waits on Cotto. That would be the smart thing for Cotto to do, because Martinez is the much more popular fighter right now compared to Margarito and HBO or SHowtime would be all over a Cotto vs. Martinez fight.
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