“I have respect for him, but if we do fight, it’s going to be at my weight class. I’m the champion, and I don’t have to do what he wants”.
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Cotto took the initiative in the opening round, using his ring generalship to set up two-punch combinations behind his jab. “It’s going to be a hard fight, I know that, but that is why I prepared properly, and I am ready to give a great fight”. He brought me here from nothing. As we all know, he started from the bottom and now he is the champion.
Canelo caught up with the media earlier this week to talk about mostly his opponent and his possible strategy for the fight. He can rebuild his career at junior middleweight, he can continue working with Freddie Roach, maybe win another title, but to what end?
Whilst the fight was for the 160-pound title, it was actually fought at a 155-pound catchweight. Cotto offered to pay $125,000.
The WBC says negotiations must commence within 15 days.
Miami resident Guillermo Rigondeaux fought on the Alvarez-Cotto undercard.
Jay Z said it best, sometimes you gotta learn to live with regrets.
There are pirate sites that will have streams up but they tend to be very unreliable and go down in the middle of the fight. “Miguel’s defense was unbelievable all night long”.
The fight began with the crowd immediately breaking into chants of “Mexico!”
The news agency also posted that “CompuBox connected on 118 of 298 shots to Cotto’s 75 out of 255”.
Earlier in the day in an interview with Yahoo Sports in his suite, Golovkin predicted an Alvarez win and was hopeful a fight could be made.
Cotto’s output was high, but Canelo was able to evade them quite easily, and punished the former’s aggression with powerful right hands and uppercuts. Cotto has in the past gotten into exchanges he later regretted.
However, Cotto, 35, failed to overpower Alvarez as the 25 year old snatched the title by unanimous decision. Alvarez’s power advantage was evident again in the ninth round, when he landed several heavy shots that stopped Cotto in his tracks.
Cotto’s stamina was impressive.
Such was not the case for champion boxers Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Miguel Cotto.
It seems like a remote possibility given his September retirement and pending 39th birthday in February, along with past friction with De La Hoya, but Mayweather could also be in play for Alvarez if he expresses any interest in a rematch. Cotto threw 374 jabs to Alvarez’s 186, so he stockpiled the punches. Alvarez dug a number of hooks to Cotto’s belly in round seven. I was mad. I apologize if I offended anybody, but I still think we won the fight though. I wasn’t hurt by his punches. Alvarez is without question the biggest active Mexican star in the sport. “Much respect to Miguel Cotto”.
Canelo’s victory means a unification bout with WBA, IBF and interim WBC champion Gennady Golovkin – who was watching at ringside – is on the horizon.
Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs), whose lone career defeat was a majority-decision loss to Floyd Mayweather in 2013, was thought to be the faster and stronger fighter and he showed it on Saturday night, consistently landing the harder, more meaningful blows against one of this generation’s finest boxer-punchers, mostly getting off first.
Canelo Alvarez Fight Coming To Movie Theaters was a top story.
“I don’t need a belt to fight Canelo”.
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Alvarez is a 3-1 favorite in a fight that will be closely watched by others in or near the middleweight division. I strongly feel that we’re hitting the million mark. “I don’t have to do what he wants”. But, after things calmed down a little bit, while he didn’t back down from saying that he’d fight Golovkin, he reiterated the one condition he has that we’ve all known about for a few time now.
