Cotto-Trout

Cotto could have had Pacquiao fight

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Image: Cotto could have had Pacquiao fightBy Allan Fox: Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) received $1 million plus a percentage of the Puerto Rican pay per view money for his 12 round decision loss to WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) last Saturday night. While that may seem like good money for the average person you have to remember that Cotto turned down a big money rematch with Manny Pacquiao that would have likely given him many times that amount.

Had Cotto said yes to the fight with Pacquiao, he still may have lost as he did last Saturday, but he’d have gotten big cash and the sting from losing to Pacquiao would be less than it is from Trout. Pacquiao is a huge star, so it’s not as bad losing to someone like him compared to the much lesser known Trout.

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Trout: Canelo should want to fight me; I beat his brother & Cotto

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Image: Trout: Canelo should want to fight me; I beat his brother & CottoBy Dan Ambrose: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) can’t understand why WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won’t agree to fight him now that he’s beaten the guy that Alvarez wanted to fight Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) last Saturday night.

Trout remarked at the Cotto-Trout post fight press conference “You’d think he’d [Canelo] be ready to fight me because I beat Miguel Cotto. I’m trying to fight the best. I beat his brother [Rigoberto Alvarez] and I beat Cotto.

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Schaefer: Malignaggi scored Cotto-Trout a draw

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Image: Schaefer: Malignaggi scored Cotto-Trout a drawBy Dan Ambrose: Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, was really dancing around coming up with excuses for his fighter Miguel Cotto’s loss to WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout last Saturday night in Madison Square Garden.

It really got interesting when Schaefer said that he was still considering matching Cotto with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez instead of having Alvarez fight Trout, the winner. That was the strange part, because Schaefer was in effect rewarding the loser of last night’s fight between Cotto and Trout rather than the winner.

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Does Cotto’s loss to Trout really change anything?

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Image: Does Cotto's loss to Trout really change anything?If you really sit back and think about what occurred at MSG last night, I don’t believe Austin Trout’s stock went up as much as we think nor did Miguel Cotto’s go down as much as some experts would lead you to believe. It is just as unlikely today as it was yesterday that Saul “Canelo” Alvarez or Floyd Mayweather Junior are going to be lining up to fight Austin Trout anytime soon and the fact is that Miguel Cotto is still the more high profile and profitable fighter for Alvarez and Golden Boy which is why there is a greater than 50/50 chance that the fight will still get made despite last night’s result.

The fact is that Miguel Cotto took a big risk fighting a true junior middleweight that no other fighter of his caliber would have risked fighting and pressed the action against an opponent in Trout who looked almost as big as Julio Cesar Chavez Jr by the time the bell rang.

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Cotto not retiring after loss

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Image: Cotto not retiring after lossBy Dan Ambrose: Despite getting beaten up and dominated in a 12 round decision loss last night to WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s), Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) says he’s not going to retire from boxing. He plans on going on vacation now to think about what direction to go in career-wise. However, it doesn’t take a genius to guess that Cotto will still be facing WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez next.

Cotto said after the fight “I’m not finished yet. Still with boxing on my mind. I just want to rest with my family the rest of the year.”

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Trout may not get Canelo fight despite beating Cotto

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Image: Trout may not get Canelo fight despite beating Cotto(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: In a perfect WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) would be the one that ends up meeting WBC junior middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in the ring on May 4th next, but it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen judging by the way Canelo chose not to speak with Trout on national television after his win over Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) tonight at Madison Square Garden, in New York.

Canelo chose to come to the fight hoping that Cotto would be the winner, but it didn’t work out that way unfortunately Alvarez. Cotto wasn’t able to close the distance to land his big power shots against the taller Trout. There’s little question that Cotto was the bigger puncher and the more exciting fighter. But this is boxing and it’s more than just who the bigger puncher is. Trout simply was the better fighter tonight and there’s not much Cotto or Canelo can do about it.

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Trout Pulls Off the upset against Cotto

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Image: Trout Pulls Off the upset against CottoBy Paul Ward: That’s as good as it gets folks. This time yesterday all of the Miguel Cotto fans who didn’t know who WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout was, were proclaiming Cotto would win easily. I argued that Cotto was in for the fight of his life; just because the boxing world didn’t know who Trout was, didn’t mean he was going to lose.

Trout is fast, has a great chin, and knows how to box. After destroying Delvin Rodriguez, Cotto can now be added to Trouts list of defeats. Trout was largely disregarded as a nobody, but as Cotto fans saw tonight, he is a force to be reckoned with. Cotto along with his fans didn’t give Trout a fair chance because they didn’t do their homework, and sadly Cotto paid the price.

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Cotto loses to Trout; will he retire?

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Image: Cotto loses to Trout; will he retire?(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Dan Ambrose: Former three time world champion Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) was a beaten tonight in getting badly schooled by unbeaten WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) by a 12 round unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York. Cotto was on his bicycle from the 5th round on, getting tagged by hard uppercuts, jabs, you name it. Trout’s uppercuts really did Cotto in from the 5th round. He landed some really big uppercuts to the head of Cotto.

Trout asked Saul “Canelo” Alvarez if he wanted to fight him next after the fight, and Canelo walked away without giving a comment. It’s no secret that Alvarez wanted Cotto to win the fight to that they could have a big mega fight match up on May 4th, the Mexico Cinco de Mayo holiday. Now that dream is up in smoke and it doesn’t look like Alvarez wants to tangle with Trout.

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Trout defeats Cotto!!!!!

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Image: Trout defeats Cotto!!!!!(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By Eric Thomas: WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) took a play out of the playbook of Floyd Mayweather Jr. by using his boxing skills to pound out an impressive 12 round unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KO’s) tonight in front of Cotto’s own fans in front of a packed house at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

Although there may be some disagreement on the judges scored handed down, one thing you can’t disagree with is who the winner of the fight. It was clearly Trout who was the better man tonight. The three judges’ scored it 117-111, 117-111, 119-109, all for Trout.

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Trout beats Cotto; Jacobs and Velez both win

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Image: Trout beats Cotto; Jacobs and Velez both winMiguel Cotto seen here turning his back on Austin Trout after being hit with a legal body shot on the belt line in the 9th – By Jim Dower: An over-trained looking Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KOs’s) just didn’t have it tonight in his attempt at capturing a title off of WBA World junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York, USA. Cotto looked smaller than he had been for his last two fights, and was missing his big power.

Trout looked to be at least 15 pounds heavier than Cotto, and his extra height and reach made it nearly impossible for Cotto to land with any consistency. The judges gave Trout the victory by the scores of 117-111, 117-111, 119-109. Some boxing fans thought those scores were too wide, in particular the 119-109 score, which gave Cotto very little credit for some of the rounds where he did some good work.

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