By Isaac Brodie: The impending match up between Miguel Cotto and Sergio Martinez has the potential to be one of the more exciting fights of the year. This match up has been criticized from all angles. Some say that Martinez is too old, and others that Cotto is too small. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that either fighter is not all they are made out to be. But the fact is that these are two exceptional fighter, admittedly on the way out, but exceptional all the same.
The fact that both fighters are coming closer to retirement is part of what makes the fight so exciting. It’s possible that neither of these fighters will ever be part of a fight of this magnitude ever again. With a willing ref we might get to see these two great fighters leave everything they have left for the square and circle at Madison Square Gardens in front of their respective legions of fans.
And possibly one of the most exciting parts of this match up is that the winner of this fight is almost guaranteed as spot across the right from Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in of his PPV dates later this year.
Now I know what you’re thinking, Martinez’s age and Cotto’s size will both be comparatively worse when matched up against the youth and stature of Canelo. But that’s not the point. The point it that if Canelo takes this fight it will give us a chance to measure him against a hall of fame fighter who isn’t named Floyd Mayweather. This would at least give us a real opportunity to measure the young fighter. Because the problem with the Floyd scale is it has largely only allowed other fighter to be seen in varying degrees of bad. We just have to ignore how exciting either option would have been had the opponent been in their prime.
The outcome of the fight is also and exciting one.
1. Canelo looses to the veteran, we know his limit, we can stop hearing about how he is the future of boxing and he and Broner will be free to start the boy band (Add Khan t that list of he gets knocked out again before he can do something relevant).
2. Canelo wins. I think this is the more likely option. This would then leave Canelo as the lineal middleweight champion.
Now it is clear that Canelo has the frame to support the move up in weight. In fact his frame will eventually necessitate it. So when he get’s the opportunity to do so with greater reward that risk you have to assume his promoters will make it happen (hence my assumption that this fight will come into fruition).
Then once at 160 there will be all kinds of opportunities for Canelo and if he lives up to the expectations many have for him he may become a real competitor for GGG, and certainly Quillin.
And forget about Lara. If Angulo could knock him down Canelo will knock him out (he knows how to block).
The point being, however you feel about the initial fight between Cotto and Martinez, do you see it as mismatch or an exciting match for whatever reason?
However you feel about it it’s still worth getting excited about if it means moves will be made.
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