By Dan Ambrose: If you’re a fan of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, you can relax and rest easy knowing that he won’t be fighting WBC middleweight Emeritus champion Sergio Martinez anytime soon if ever. Emanuel Steward, the trainer for Cotto, is reportedly saying that there won’t be a fight between Cotto and Martinez in the near future because of the different promoters that the two fighters work for, according to fighthype.

This is a good thing for Cotto, because he would have likely taken a ferocious beating and been knocked cold if he had opted ton fight Martinez. Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum is matching Cotto against beatable opponents since Cotto was crushed by Manny Pacquiao in 2009 and went life and death with Joshua Clottey in the same year. Arum has matched Cotto against Yuri Foreman, a light puncher who recently exposed and beaten by Pawel Wolak, and 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga in Cotto’s last two fights. See a trend here?

Now Arum is looking to match Cotto against Antonio Margarito in the summer. Margarito took a severe beating in a 12 round decision loss to Pacquiao last November and a lot of people believe that Margarito is a shot fighter. This is another winnable fight for Cotto. There was talk that Cotto was interested in possibly fighting Martinez next if the money was right. However, few boxing felt that Cotto’s promoter would go along with the idea of Cotto facing Martinez because Cotto would stand almost no chance of winning because of how good Martinez is fighting right now.

This wouldn’t be one of Cotto’s fights against a light hitter or a fighter nearing 40-years-old or someone that a lot of people think is a shot fighter. Martinez would be bringing pure pain for as long as the fight lasted and I suspect Cotto wouldn’t last long against a fighter like Martinez. As such, don’t hold your breath waiting for Cotto to fight Martinez in this lifetime.