Canelo Alvarez outslugs Miguel Cotto to win middleweight title

“With all due respect, if he wants to fight right now I’ll put the gloves on and fight him”, Alvarez said. During the fight, Canelo Alvarez threw more punches than Miguel Cotto did by a 155 to 129 margin and he landed a much higher percentage too at 32% vs 21%. “But I’m not afraid of anybody”.

The Puerto Rican, who is 35 and might retire, lost the middleweight title even before the bout with Alvarez for refusing to pay a $300,000 sanctioning fee to the WBC. I thought his defense was brilliant and we didn’t lose the fight by that much. We are both going to fight. “GGG is a great fighter, and he is my friend”, Alvarez said.

They’re counting on big Hispanic interest in a fight matching traditional rivals from Mexico and Puerto Rico. The Kazakh is the WBC interim champion and the mandatory opponent for Canelo, and if Alvarez’s team does not make a deal to fight him in the next 15 days, then Canelo risks being stripped of the belt he just won.

‘Miguel always tells me that if he had me in his corner when he fought Mayweather he would have knocked him out.

“I said I was willing to do anything I needed to win this fight”, Alvarez said, “and that’s what I did”.

That’s all good news for HBO, which will be running the PPV of tonight’s fight, and the more fans are talking about the main event the better for them, and arguably for boxing.

I saw it a little closer at 116-112 on my WBN Live Scorecard, but there was no doubt who won the encounter in the end and who deserved to become the new WBC middleweight belt holder. A third-round knockout of an out-of-shape and desperate James Kirkland last May in Houston looked impressive, but he also suffered a one-sided loss to Floyd Mayweather in September 2014 and was lucky to get a split decision victory over Erislandy Lara in July 2014.

“People were eager to see an exciting fight after the disappointment with Mayweather-Pacquiao, the lack of action”, De La Hoya said. “I think the pendulum just swung on the side of Cotto”.

This was the fourth win in a row for Alvarez since his loss to Mayweather. Canelo didn’t have a signature moment-a few solid flurries here and there was basically it-but he was in control of the fight throughout. “I was fully prepared for what Cotto was going to do in the ring, whether that was take a defence stance or be the aggressor”.

“I feel really strong at this weight”, Alvarez said in reference to 155 pounds.

“The Golden Boy” Oscar De La Hoya discusses the importance of the Canelo Alvarez’s fight against Miguel Cotto and whether the victor should get a shot at Gennady Golovkin.