Miguel Cotto boxing news
By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya says he’d have a talk with his willful fighter Saul “Canelo” Alvarez to try and persuade him to move off the May 2nd fight date next year if the Manny Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr mega-fight gets made for that date.
That’s a big if right now because Pacquiao’s promoter Bob Arum recently said that the May 2nd date belonged to Canelo because of him being Mexican and that fight date falling on the Mexican holiday Cinco de Mayo.
Great year! Trout @caneloOficial Smith! Who want Cuban School next @FloydMayweather @RealMiguelCotto @gggboxing ??? pic.twitter.com/qEsKMBs67C
— Erislandy Lara (@Laraboxing) December 15, 2014
By Dan Ambrose: After recently beating Ishe Smith and Austin Trout and being arguably robbed in his fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, WBA World junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (20-2-2, 12 KOs) says he’s interested in fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr, Miguel Cotto and Gennady Golovkin in 2015.
Just which one of these three will say yes to a fight against the southpaw Lara is the big question. It’s quite possible that Lara scared away all three of them with his performance against Canelo.
By Antonia Bufalino: A few days ago a press statement was released of how Saul “Canelo” Alvarez has agreed to Miguel Cotto’s terms for their fight. It seems it is only a matter of time before everything else is set and done.
Now, Floyd Mayweather Jr has made it his tradition to fight on May 2 every year, Cinco De Mayo weekend. However, Canelo and Cotto are planning to fight on the same exact day. Mayweather is famous for doing things how he likes and how he wants. In his eyes, he is the king of boxing, and the possibility of someone stealing Cinco De Mayo would not sit well with him- at all. However, the only fight that would outsell Canelo/Cotto would be Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao. With Mayweather being a smart business man, he knows this.
(Photo credit: Goosen Tutor) By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA 154 pound champion Austin Trout (27-2, 14 KOs) is pulling for WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) to defeat Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) when/if they face each other next year on May 2nd on Cinco de Mayo.
Trout thinks he’d have a better chance of getting a rematch against the 34-year-old Cotto than he would against Canelo because of his previous win over Cotto in 2012. Canelo defeated Trout by a very close decision in 2013 in a fight that could have gone Trout’s way.
By Christopher Young: Which fight would be bigger – Floyd Mayweather Jr vs. Manny Pacquiao or Miguel Cotto vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez? If these two fights were on two separate networks scheduled for May 2nd and you could only choose one to buy, which fight would it be?
Both of these fights have a special nationwide interests for hardcore and casual boxing fans. Mayweather vs. Pacquiao fight is a fight long overdue. It lost a lot of its luster, but it is still one of the biggest fights out there.
By Robert “Big Moe” Elmore: If anybody has studied my writings, I always champion for fighters to be more active in their careers. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez with the help of Oscar De La Hoya, seems to be taking that approach. But his approach comes with a twist. He wants to reclaim the Mexican holidays (Cinco De Mayo and Mexican Independence Day) away from the current occupant Floyd Mayweather. Oscar told fighthype.com that Canelo has agreed to all terms.
Ring Magazine online, my main source, tells an entirely different story. Let’s point out a few facts here. Fact one, Todd Du Boef and Gabriel Penagaricano (Cotto’s advisor) are leading negotiations for this fight. Not Arum. He was simply brought on to help move things along. Fact two; they are still negotiating and Cotto has not been informed yet of negotiations. Fact three; the venue has not been decided upon.
By Dino Marcelino: For the past decade, the most undoubtedly polarizing figure in boxing has been pound-for-pound king, Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. Following his systematic destruction of Argentine brawler Marcos Maidana in their September rematch, Mayweather now sits at 47-0.
The general consensus is that Mayweather will indeed retire undefeated, joining Welshman Joe Calzaghe and the legendary Rocky Marciano as one of the few to do so. By comparison, Marciano’s career spanned eight years before he decided to retire at age 32. Mayweather will be 38 in February, and has fought a whole decade longer than Marciano. Based on longevity alone, Mayweather has earned tremendous respect, and a worldwide following that extends outside of the ring. Mayweather refers to himself as “TBE” or “The Best Ever,” although there is one thing standing in the way of some boxing fans making that statement without hesitation. That one thing is a fight with Filipino superstar Manny Pacquiao.
By Allan Fox: Mexican super star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) has reportedly agreed to fight terms for a May 2nd mega-fight against WBC middleweight title holder Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view from either Texas or Las Vegas, Nevada.
The 34-year-old Cotto still hasn’t worked out his side of the negotiations, but he’s expected to.
By Dan Ambrose: A stubborn Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (44-1-1, 31 KOs) is insisting that he’ll be fighting on May 2nd on Cinco de Mayo in 2015 despite the fact that the arguably more popular WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr has already said that he intents on fighting on that date.
Canelo previously said that he was going to be fighting on the Mexican holidays in May and September regardless if Mayweather would be fighting on that date, because he wants to take those dates back.
By Dan Ambrose: Former WBA/WBC 154 pound champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez says he believes he’ll have a deal made with WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto in the next couple of weeks for a catch-weight fight at 155 pounds for Cinco de Mayo holiday weekend next year in May.
Canelo (44-1-1, 31 KOs) says he wants to stay at junior middleweight even though he’s fighting for Cotto’s WBC middleweight belt. With Canelo struggling badly to stay at 154, you have to wonder why he’s persisting at staying at the weight. The obvious answer is the big fights that the 24-year-old Canelo can get against the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao.