By Dan Ambrose: Former three division world champion Miguel Cotto (38-4, 31 KO’s) will be joining his trainer Freddie Roach to start training on April 14th for his June 7th fight with WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (51-2, 28 KO’s) at Madison Square Garden, in New York. ESPN Deportes is reported that the fight negotiations between Cotto and Martinez are almost completed.
Cotto wants to try and capture a 4th division world title, and that’s why he’s moving up to 160 to try and take the 38-year-old Sergio’s belt. Cotto is getting the Martinez fight at the right time with him coming off of a year-long layoff after his last fight in April against Martin Murray. Martinez suffered a couple of injuries in that bout, and he’s been slowly healing all this time.