By Dan Ambrose: Despite getting beaten up and dominated in a 12 round decision loss last night to WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s), Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) says he’s not going to retire from boxing. He plans on going on vacation now to think about what direction to go in career-wise. However, it doesn’t take a genius to guess that Cotto will still be facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next.

Cotto said after the fight “I’m not finished yet. Still with boxing on my mind. I just want to rest with my family the rest of the year.”

Trout, 27, says he’s willing to give Cotto a rematch if he feels like he can go better against him in a return match. Somehow, I don’t think Cotto will take Trout up on that offer. If anything, we’ll see Cotto fighting Alvarez in a pay per view bout next in May. Cotto was supposed to beat Trout in order to get the Alvarez fight, but the show will still likely go on even with Cotto losing.

It’ll be kind of hard for the boxing fans to swallow seeing a Cotto-Alvarez fight being made given Cotto’s loss to Trout, especially with the fight likely to be a PPV fight. But that’s the most likely thing we’re going to see from Cotto next. His promoters at Golden Boy Promotions really want the Cotto-Alvarez fight, and they’re not about to risk the orange-haired Canelo Alvarez with Trout, not after the way Trout beat Cotto.

Trout could really wreck things for Golden Boy. Can you imagine how bad things would look for Golden Boy if Trout beat Alvarez too? He’d have picked off two of Golden Boy’s biggest stars back to back. I don’t see Golden Boy giving Trout the chance to do that, which is too bad because the sport is supposed to be about finding out who the best is, not just about matching the fighters with the biggest fan bases against each other.