Canelo Alvarez shows his mettle in unanimous decision over Cotto

Current Tim Bradley trainer, Teddy Atlas is picking Miguel Cotto to win tonight’s WBC middleweight battle with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez in Las Vegas, claiming the Puerto Rican will box around a “drained” looking “Canelo” and take advantage of his ‘cement feet’. “Everybody should know what to expect from Canelo and what kind of fight they can expect from me”. “He’s a friend of mine”, Alvarez said. He connected with a wicked hook to the gut, but the stronger Alvarez soon fought back.

Golovkin was among the 11,274 spectators inside Mandalay Bay watching.

“I don’t need a belt to fight Canelo”, said Cotto, a world champion in four different weight classes.

155 = middleweight, but the division goes all the way up to 160. Alvarez would be declared the WBC champion if he wins the bout, but the title would be vacant if Cotto wins. “If we do a fight, it’s going to be at my weight class”. Unlike Mayweather, according to De La Hoya and other detractors, Alvarez maintained his superiority while thrilling a capacity crowd.

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The grand plan for Canelo Alvarez is to win Saturday night, then set up his pay-per-view franchise on the same Mexican holiday weekends that Floyd Mayweather Jr. always made his millions.

Mayweather schooled Canelo with a bloodless, technical shut-out in the Mexican’s sole loss in 2013, after winning a tougher fight against Cotto in 2012. While Mayweather remains retired until he wants to return to the ring, his pound for pound legacy remains in the sport, a plague that will take time to scrub out. Truth be told, Cotto is a legitimate welterweight right now and Alvarez is a full-fledged junior middleweight, but not for much longer. Will there be a rematch with Cotto? Alvarez beat Cotto with a 119-109, 118-110 and 117-111 unanimous decision. Alvarez weighed exactly that the day before the fight, but after rehydrating appeared much larger in the ring than did Cotto, who was 153 1/2 pounds at the official weigh-in. “I’m sure we’ll sit down and talk about it”. I think that would be a good fight for him.

“If it’s over, it’s over”. The best round of the fight was the eighth. “He’s a young kid coming up in the game”. In his first bout seizing the perch as the main attraction of a pay-per-view card, De La Hoya’s prized draw didn’t let him down.

So it will be up to De La Hoya to get a deal done with Golovkin, who is 34-0 with 31 knockouts and has knocked out 21 straight opponents.

The question going into the fight was whether Cotto would have enough power to put a dent into Alvarez and make it a fight. Alvarez has won his last three fights, as well, scoring knockouts over Alfredo Angulo and James Kirkland. “You’ve got two guys who can really punch”.