Austin Trout boxing news
By Ian Aldous: On December 1st in Madison Square Garden, New York, Austin ‘No Doubt’ Trout (25-0) defends his WBA world light-middleweight championship against the Puerto Rican legend and four-time world champion, Miguel Cotto (37-3). It is undoubtedly the marquee fight that Austin has been searching for since becoming champion in February of last year.
This week Austin took a few moments of his time to talk about the fight.
By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: When I saw that former junior middleweight champ Miguel Cotto was fighting “regular” WBA champ Austin Trout, it brought a smile to my face. I wrote an article titled “Cotto was probably never a serious Option for Pacquaio” and I now I feel vindicated.
Honestly, I didn’t care who Cotto fought just as long as he stuck to his guns and could finally dictate things on his own terms. And this time he doesn’t have WBO president and CEO of Top Rank breathing down on him trying to get him to fight Manny Pacquiao. I won’t spend much time on this but the proof is right here (Go to Google and type in Interview with WBO president Valcarcel regarding Pacquaio) and you’ll see it for yourselves. The interview was given by Dr. Allan Recto on Tuesday July 8th 2009. Now most won’t look this up, but whatever; back to the point.
By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto’s Cuban trainer Pedro Diaz has faith that Cotto can beat undefeated WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) when they meet up on December 1st at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York.
By Chris Williams: If Bob Arum was hoping to use Miguel Cotto to bring Juan Manuel Marquez down in his asking price for a December fight against his cash cow Manny Pacquiao, well he can’t do it anymore because Cotto is now officially out of the Pacquiao lottery with his announcement today that he’ll be fighting for the WBA junior middleweight title against champion Austin Trout on December 1st at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA Super light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KO’s) has announced on his twitter that he’ll be challenging unbeaten WBA World light middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) for his title on December 1st at Madison Square Garden in New York.
By Allan Fox: A fight between unbeaten WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) and 32-year-old #4 World Boxing Association ranked Roberto Garcia (31-3, 21 KO’s) is possible for the September 8th undercard of the fight between IBF welterweight champion Randall Bailey and challenger Devon Alexander.
By Dan Ambrose: The World Boxing Council (WBC) has reportedly nixed the idea of Golden Boy Promotions matching their star WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (40-0-1, 29 KO’s) up against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout in a unification bout on September 15th, according to fightnews.com.
By Dan Ambrose: According to Dan Rafael, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer doesn’t plan on matching his star WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez against WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout on September 15th.
By Dan Ambrose: It looks like Golden Boy Promotions has decided to match their young star WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez (40-0, 29 KO’s) in another safe fight by putting him in with WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) on September 15th in a non-pay-per-view bout televised on Showtime, according to boxing news from Dan Rafael.
By Dan Ambrose: Now that Victor Ortiz has been eliminated from the possibility of facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul Alvarez on September 15th in a pay-per-view bout in light of Ortiz’s 9th round stoppage loss on Saturday night against Josesito Lopez, Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says he’ll either match Alvarez up against unbeaten WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KO’s) or former WBO welterweight champion Carlos Quintana (29-3, 23 KO’s) next in September, according to Dan Rafael at ESPN.