Cotto vs. Canelo

By Dan Ambrose: If Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya was looking for a reason to push a rematch between his golden goose Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) onto the boxing public, I think he may have found a reason. The figures released for the fight probably has De La Hoya licking his chops at the idea of putting together a Canelo-Cotto rematch.

According to Dan Rafael, the gate figures were released today with the Cotto-Canelo fight generating $12,470,200 from the 10,198 tickets that were sold for the fight at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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By Dan Ambrose: If WBC middleweight champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) was looking for an excuse for why he shouldn’t have to face interim WBC 160lb champion Gennady “GGG” Golovkin (34-0, 31 KOs) now or perhaps never, I think he finally has got the excuse.

Canelo’s recent fight last month against former WBC middleweight title holder Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) brought an official number of 900,000 pay-per-view fights on HBO, according to Chris Mannix of Sports Illustrated.

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By Rob Blakeman: It has always been my understanding that in boxing, to take a Champions crown you must do so decisively. There must be no question, no doubt, a true beating by the better man must be witnessed and acknowledged if not quite by all then by the vast majority.

Otherwise the Champion should keep the title he usually worked and battled so hard to win. The scorecards for Miguel Cotto against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez did appear to attest to such a drubbing, reading as follows: 119-109, 118-110 and 117-111.

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By Dan Ambrose: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Oscar De La Hoya made mention before last Saturday’s mega-fight between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) that the fight would bring in between 1.5 million and 2.5 million buys on HBO pay-per-view.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it’s going to be bringing in anywhere close to that number of buys. According to early estimates, the Cotto vs. Canelo fight will do at least 900,000 PPV buys, according to Dan Rafael of ESPN. 900,000 is a respectable number, but nowhere near the huge amount of buys that De La Hoya was predicting for the fight.

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By BN: Last Saturday night we seen Saul “Canelo” Alvarez win the WBC Middleweight championship of the world by 12 round unanimous decision over Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. First and foremost there should be nothing but respect towards Miguel Cotto as he put up a spirited effort and tried his best as he always does and fought like a warrior.

Canelo on the other hand was too much for Cotto and picked him apart by landing the cleaner, more accurate and heavier shots and consistently walked Cotto down over 12 rounds.

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By Dan Ambrose: Two days after his 12 round unanimous decision loss to the popular Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) from last Saturday night, Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) isn’t happy with the decision that was handed down by the three judges in his fight on HBO PPV.

Cotto thinks he did more than enough to win 8 of the 12 rounds, and he’s not pleased that he was on the receiving end of a decision loss. The judges scored the fight for Canelo by the scores of 119-109, 118-110, and 117-111. While most boxing fans felt that Canelo had done enough to deserve the win, fans didn’t agree that he won by that wide of a margin.

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