By Dan Ambrose: It’s rumored that Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) could be facing the recently knocked out James Kirkland (32-2, 28 KOs) on June 18 on HBO pay-per-view. According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, the Cotto-Kirkland fight is a possibility. Selling a fight between Cotto and Kirkland is asking for trouble.
If HBO sells it for $60, then they could wind up with very few buyers. Cotto lost his last fight to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez last November in a close 12 round unanimous decision loss on HBO pay-per-view. That fight was obviously a pay-per-view worthy fight between Cotto was the WBC middleweight champion at the time, and Canelo had turned his career around since his loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. But Cotto is coming off of a loss to Canelo now, and the 31-year-old Kirkland hasn’t fought since being stopped in the 3rd round by Canelo in May of 2015.