Cotto a better match-up for Canelo than Mayweather

By Dan Ambrose: WBC executive secretary Mauricio Sulaiman feels that it’s still not time for WBA/WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to step inside the ring with the faster, more experience and much more talented Floyd Mayweather Jr. yet.

Sulaiman wants Canelo to wait before he takes the fight with Mayweather. He prefers that Canelo fight Miguel Cotto next to pick up more fame and experience from that fight before he looks to tackle someone like Mayweather.

Sulaiman said to ESPN Deportes “It [Cotto] would be the best for Cinnamon [Canelo]. Cotto is a very dangerous boxer, he at the key point of his career where he needs to show that he can continue at the world level. It would be the best fight of the two. Mayweather is a fight the whole world is waiting for. Perhaps Canelo would be good in a couple of fights.”

I agree that Canelo isn’t ready for Mayweather and that it would be better for Canelo to face Cotto because that is definitely a better style match-up for him.

Cotto is pretty much on his last legs right now and ready to be finished off. He’s already lost his last two fights and if Canelo doesn’t finish him off, then someone else surely will. It’s in Canelo’s best interest to retire Cotto and then move on from there.

I really think Canelo has unfinished business with former WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout. Despite what a lot of Canelo’s fans are saying about him looking sensational against Trout, I thought Canelo looked poor, and he didn’t impress at all.

I had Trout winning that fight and the scoring of the fight didn’t match what happened in the ring. The scoring, having the fight in Texas and with the semi-open scoring, it just puts a big question mark about that whole fight.

Canelo looked awful, appeared to lose and still got the win and even got lopsided scoring by two of the judges. That fight needs to be redone with a different set of judges, no open scoring and definitely not in Texas. It needs to take place in Las Vegas where the spotlight will be shining bright.