Is Mayweather-Cotto 2 a Lock for MW Title?

Even if Cotto wins he won't recover in 3 months. Sergio will definitely hurt him and it would be back to back training camps (with maybe a week or 2 off).

Absolutely no chance of it happening in September.

 

so they will fight for the mw title at 152???
like we dont have enough paper champs....
neither of those 2 deserve a shot at the mw title, period...

 

I seriously hope not as he will hold the middleweight belt hostage, do you really think floyd would fight the best natural 160'ers? He has no business at middleweight.

 

It would be cynical of two fronts - cynical of Cotto to now go after Sergio because he knows Sergio is aging and is plagued by injuries so now he thinks he's in with a chance. It would be cynical of Floyd to go after a guy he already beat to pick up a middleweight belt.

Why would there be any need for a catchweight anyway? Cotto and Floyd are naturally about the same size that's why Floyd was fine with fighting Cotto at 154 compared to draining the larger built Canelo down to 152.

 

Why is there ever a need for a catch weight ? And who doesn't like rematches ? They are apart of boxing !

 

Definitely not. Cotto started at 140, and Floyd at 130.

Floyd can still make 140, he came in at 146 against Guerrero and doesnt even cut water weight. Cotto could never make 140, let alone 147 present day. No chance.

 

Trout is a decent sized guy at 154 and was much bigger than Cotto because Miguel is not a natural 154 lb'er. He's able to compete there because he's a better boxer than most of the guys he's faced there. I think he could make 147, even Roach floated the idea of going back down, I just think Miguel didn't handle cutting weight properly in years gone by.

As I've said before, just because Floyd maintains his weight well doesn't make him small. He measured up size wise with Shane when they fought and Shane isn't a small welterweight.

http://www.theboxingobserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Floyd-Mayweather-Miguel-Cotto.jpg

^^ Doesn't seem to be a huge difference to me.

 

This is why we get all the silly FMJ/GGG threads. Crap like this, trying to put Mayweather and Middleweight into the same sentence where they dont belong together.

Oh, and as an aside - if Cotto gets revitalized by new training/weight and Roach skill up enough to take title from healthy Martinez he knocks FMJ out at 160 anyhow. Or 157 or 158 where you could still plausibly consider MW lineal on the line.

 

Martinez beats Cotto, badly, this is the end for Cotto. This isn't in the cards. Cotto should have kept Diaz. I also think that if somehow Cotto does beat Martinez, he will hurt FMJ in a middleweight fight. Floyd shouldn't fight above 147.