Austin Trout

By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) says he isn’t going to be lucking to run from Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) on Saturday night in their big fight in Madison Square Garden in New York. Trout is going to meet Cotto’s attacks head on and not look to flee in order to survive.

Trout said “Once that bell rings it’s fight or flight, and I’m ain’t running nowhere.”

That could be bad news for Cotto because he seems to fight better against guys that run from him, and allow him to fight at a slow pace so that he can get plenty of rest breaks. Cotto never did have good stamina even in the early part of his career, but it’s gotten worse as he’s aged. Trout can expose Cotto’s stamina issues if he forces him to fight at a fast pace.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBC junior middleweight Saul “Canelo” Alvarez really needs Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) to come out victorious on Saturday night kn his fight against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) to keep his hopes alive for a big money unification bout with Cotto for May 4th next year.

Alvarez hasn’t gotten any nibbles from Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Sergio Martinez for the May 4th date that Alvarez picked out for his next fight, and it’s like more and more like Alvarez made a rookie mistake by choosing to not to fight in December and thinking that he could get one of the big names to fight him on May 4th.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout’s first goal for Saturday night in his fight against former three division world champion Miguel Cotto is to shut up Cotto’s fans at Madison Square Garden in New York, so that they’re not a factor in encouraging Cotto like they normally are.

Cotto is one of those fighters that fights at a higher level when he’s being cheered by his fans, and there’s going to be a lot of Cotto’s fans at this fight. The Garden holds 20,000 fans, but it’s not expected to be a sellout.

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By Dan Ambrose: For a fighter that no longer holds a world belt and who is coming off of a 12 round decision loss in his last fight, Miguel Cotto (37-3. 30 KO’s) is going to be making out like a bandit on Saturday with his reported $1 million+ payday he’ll be getting for his fight against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) at the Madison Square Garden in New York.

However, being a world title holder isn’t what it’s cracked up to be nowadays, because the 27-year-old Trout will be getting only $240,000 for this non pay per view bout which will be televised on Showtime.

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) lost his last fight, and is kind of at the end of his rope with his bout this Saturday night against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) in New York. Cotto really doesn’t have a lot of directions he can go in right now in the junior middleweight division if he loses to Trout, because Cotto doesn’t match-up well with WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez.

I don’t expect Cotto to be able to get that fight if he loses to Trout. I suppose Cotto could look to take on IBF 154 lb champion Cornelius Bundrage or WBO champion Zaurbek Baysangurov, but those are tough fights too for Cotto. I think Bundrage would beat him, and Baysangurov would be a tough fight as well.

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) says he sees his own has being the one that’s raised on Saturday night in his battle against Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) in their fight that will be shown on Showtime. Trout, 27, believes that he’s going to take over the fight in the later rounds and win the fight no matter what.

Trout said this to RingTV “My visualization is with my hands raised.”

Trout isn’t looking for a knockout, but if it comes it comes. He might have the power to stop Cotto with a single shot but he’s got enough power to slice Cotto up, bleed him, and then either get a doctor’s stoppage or an outright stoppage due to Cotto’s vision being obscured by the blood in his eyes.

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) is pretty confident that he’ll be victorious this Saturday night in his fight against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Cotto lost his last fight to Floyd Mayweather Jr., but he thinks he’ll win on Saturday night. For that to happen Cotto is going to have to look a lot better than he did against Mayweather because that version of Cotto will lose badly to the younger, faster and taller Trout.

Cotto said this about Saturday’s fight as quoted by RingTV.com “I’m going to be ready for the fight and to beat Austin Trout next Saturday…I’m going to be the new champion of the world. Everybody will see.”

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By Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) is looking for a life changing win this Saturday night against former three division world champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) on Showtime at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA.

Trout, 27, hasn’t won the big money like the 32-year-old Cotto, and this is going to be his chance to make the big cash by beating Cotto and then moving onto the big money fights, if not a rematch between them.

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By Dan Ambrose: We could be seeing the passing of a torch on December 1st when the 32-year-old Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) fights unbeaten WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) in this battle on Showtime at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Cotto is the big name that the 27-year-old Trout has been missing from his fight resume to help make a star in the sport. He needs the aging Cotto’s name to give him a boost to the top.

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