(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: 5’10” WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) thinks that Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) and his team underestimated how much bigger he is than the 5’7″ Cotto, and Trout says he plans on using his extra three inches in height and five inches in reach to pound Cotto from the distance to get an easy win on December 1st at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York, USA.

Cotto fought a fighter with the same reach as Trout in his last fight in Cotto’s 12 round decision defeat at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr. However, Mayweather purposely chose to slug with Cotto so that he could make it an entertaining fight for boxing fans. Mayweather could have stayed on the outside and boxed Cotto’s ears off for 12 rounds had he wanted to but he chose to give up his reach and stand and trade with him for 12 rounds. Trout is going to be using his reach to his advantage in this fight to get an easy win.

Trout told Fighthype.com I don’t think they [Team Cotto] thought I was as big as I am…I will use my reach, I have a good jab as well.”

Of course they underestimated Trout because they would have never taken the fight otherwise. Cotto’s problems is that he has nowhere to turn to in the division because there are dangers at every turn. He’s got guys like Erislandy Lara, Vanes Martirosyan and Saul Alvarez all of which want to fight him, and Cotto simply doesn’t match up well with any of them at this point. He’d likely be knocked out by all of them or he’d take a beating and lose by a decision. In fighting Trout, Cotto is taking a slightly easier option than facing Lara, Martiroyan and Alvarez, and that’s perhaps the only reason why he took this fight.

Cotto is going to have to let it all hand out early in this fight before Trout has had a while to work on all that scar tissue around both of Cotto’s eyes. He’s got to try and get to Trout before he opens him up with his jabs and combinations and turns this fight into a terrible bloodbath.