By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto’s trainer Freddie Roach isn’t at all worried about tonight’s fight against Mexico’s Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) on HBO PPV. Roach has studied Canelo’s fights endlessly for the past two months, and he’s seen enough to know that the 25-year-old Canelo has a very basic fighting style that he sees Cotto having no problems dealing with tonight at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Roach thinks Canelo’s defensive skills are horrible, and he sees him as a very robotic fighter who lacks the fluidity that you like to see in athletes.