Cotto-Canelo

WBC Yet Again Confirms Cotto/Canelo Winner Must Face GGG

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1-golovkin (4)By Timothy Bladel: World Boxing Council Mauricio Sulaiman has yet again stated the next fight for the winner of the Miguel Cotto versus Canelo Saul Alverez fight on November 21st will be Gennady Golovkin (GGG). Sulaiman ensures fans that no alternatives will be made, unless both parties reach an internal agreement.

“We can confirm that the winner must face our interim champion, Golovkin,” Sulaiman said via vivelohoy.com/deportes. “It’s a fight that has to happen, the winner cannot face someone else.”

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Canelo 160.2 at 7-day weigh-in

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canelo100By Dan Ambrose: Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) weighed in at 160.2lbs at the 7-day weigh-in yesterday for his fight next Saturday night on November 21st against WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

With 5.2lbs to go for the 25-year-old Canelo to get down to the 155lb catch-weight for the fight, he already looks really thin and not healthy for him. I suspect Canelo will make the weight, but I believe it’s going to ultimately hurt him in the later rounds if the fight goes that far.

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De La Hoya: Canelo isn’t ready to move up to 160

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delahoya5By Dan Ambrose: Despite Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) consistently fighting in the middleweight division since 2014 and rehydrating to the mid-170s, his promoter Oscar De La Hoya says Canelo still isn’t ready to move up to 160lbs for his fights. De La Hoya says that when the 25-year-old Canelo is ready to fight at the full weight for the middleweight division at 160, then he’ll fight guys like IBF/IBO/WBA middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs).

It’s unclear what weight Canelo will be weighing in when he and De La Hoya do finally feel comfortable for him to fight at 160. Right now, Canelo is rehydrating to as high as 175, which makes him bigger than Golovkin, who rehydrates to 170.

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Cotto-Canelo: Finally, a real 50/50 fight!

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1-cotto-canelo-nyc (6)By Bob Smith: Like many other fans, I view the Miguel Cotto vs. Saul “Canelo” Alvarez fight as the true pay-per-view attraction of the year, for it is between equally matched competitors who both take risks and have crowd pleasing styles and large fan bases.

Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs Manny Pacquiao would have been more competitive in 2009-2010, and perhaps Pacquaio may have won, but as of 2015 spring, Mayweather was simply far too dominant; by contrast, Pacquaio had not had a KO in years, and punchers fade more quickly than boxers from the elite ranks.

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Guillermo Rigondeaux to fight on Cotto vs. Canelo card

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rigondeaux53By Dan Ambrose: After sitting idle for close to a year, Cuban Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux (15-0, 10 KOs) will now be fighting next Saturday night on November 21st against Drian Francisco (28-3-1, 22 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view on the same card as Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Needless to say, this is a great addition for the Cotto-Canelo card, because the undercard recently took a major hit with the loss of the injured Andre Ward, who had to pull out of the card due to a knee problem. Rigondeaux is now the best known fighter on the undercard, and arguably the most talented fighter on the entire card.

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Mosley: Cotto beats Canelo

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cotto (13)By Dan Ambrose: Sugar Shane Mosley is picking WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) to send challenger Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) to his second defeat of his career in their fight on November 21st on HBO PPV.

Mosley, 44, has lost to both fighters in the past, but he feels that Cotto has more dimensions to his game than the 25-year-old Canelo, and he notes that Cotto is better at adapting than the Mexican Canelo. Mosley watched how both fighters dealt with the same fighter in Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the past, and he saw that Canelo wasn’t able to adapt at all against Mayweather.

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Cotto vs. Canelo: The Fight Forecast

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By Tanner Jay:

The Context:

The November 21, 2015 PPV fight between Miguel Cotto and Canelo Alvarez is a reminder that the boxing industry can dependably sustain itself on the script of its chaotic pageantry. Again we are inundated with the clichés used to illustrate the battle as a heated exchange between two cultures heavily involved in the prizefight tradition. Both men have identities synonymous with their respective culture, and yet surely this fight will sell outside the Puerto Rican and Mexican consumer corridor, but the only bold assurance I will wager on is that it will not be the bloodlust war of attrition that has been promised.

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De La Hoya expects Cotto-Canelo to bring 1.5 million PPV buys

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delahoya9045By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya is predicting huge pay-per-view numbers for the November 21st fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (45-1-1, 32 KOs) vs. Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33 KOs) on HBO pay-per-view from the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

De La Hoya thinks the fight will bring in no less than 1.5 million pay-per-view buys for the fight, which sells for $59.99 on HBO.

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Cotto vs. Canelo: A Fight for the “Post” Millennium

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1-cotto-canelo-m (5)By J Caldwell: The last time there was talks of two top Latino fighters set to grace the same ring, the boxing world would be set afire. Dubbed as “The Fight of the Millennium,” you’d be hard press to not find at least one boxing analyst that didn’t think either Oscar “The Golden Boy” De La Hoya, or Felix “Tito” Trinidad wasn’t going home with some kind of brain damage. Nevertheless, what transpired would not only shake-up the boxing world, but would stun the sport’s world the world over.

That was then, and this is now! What we have now in the more modern version of a Mexico versus Puerto Rico rivalry is a very game Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, a native Mexican, and an always dangerous Miguel Cotto, hailing for the tiny island of Puerto Rico, a small boxing mecca of sort. Thus, we have the makings for an all-out war on the night of Saturday November 21, 2015—or do we?

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