Cotto is quoted as saying "he can take the title"....

Maybe he will drop it, maybe he will fight GGG, maybe he will fight someone else. There are procedures and he will have to fight his mandatory challenger or drop the belt eventually anyway. For now lets have some patience and like I said, see what happens.

 

Kind of lousy on Cotto, he takes the chance of fighting Martinez, wins but still gets called a coward because he's not fighting the rest. At least he stepped up once, more than floyd

 

run Cotto RUN

 

he is losing more and more fans each day with this farce

 

Exactly

 

cotto never had any business having a middleweight title in the first place. anyone w half a brain knows ggg would destroy martinez and cotto at 160. cotto should fight a few competitive fights at 154 and then fight canelo.

 

"He has to wait like anybody else," Cotto told ESPN.com. "He can do what ever he wants. My career does not depend on Gennady Golovkin."

But is Cotto interested in such a fight?

"We don't know yet," he said. "Everything I do will be the best for me. That is what I will do. If that is fighting Gennady Golovkin I will do it. If not, he can take the middleweight title. He can take it."

 

i've always been a huge fan of his but this whole mw king thing is kind of a joke to me. that's just me.

he "moved up" to 155 beat a clearly hobbled man for a title that was there for the taking. i know that the hype and lead up was handled very well and it was assumed sergio was ok but anyone who watched the fight knows he wasn't.

cotto would get beaten up very badly by any mw king for the past 15 or so years. prime sergio, pavlik, taylor, hopkins. and there's no shame in that. he's not a mw now and never was. he's not going to fight ggg. ever. he'd get taken apart so badly that everyone would know this whole thing was a joke instead of just thinking it.

he just needs to move back down

 

The guy looks like he just wants to cash out on a couple big paydays and than call it a career.

Which makes it baffling as to why he didn't go forward with the Canelo bout. he was supposedly offered 10.5 million for the fight, but certain "concessions," not being made was the reason he decided to forego that matchup.

I can easily see him taking on a smaller guy for his next match, someone who'd probably be coming in from WW or JMW. I think ultimately he wants his rematch with Mayweather to get that last major payday and he knows the only real negotiating tool he has with Floyd is the lineal MW title.

I have no problem with him avoiding Golovkin. At least he's honest about it.

 

I agree but he fought Martinez almost a year ago already.

If he doesn't intend on fighting the top guy, relinquish the title.

 

Who really knows what offers were made and what those "concessions" were? A lot of it is probably about ego, these guys don't like giving in to each others demands. Guys like Cotto and Canelo probably feel like they don't need each other and don't need to cave to the other guy's demands and deadlines etc.

Probably something like that yeah. Fighters usually don't want to give up their titles. His title along with his name is what could enable him to get big money fights with the likes of Floyd/Pac/Canelo/GGG in the future.

 

Yeah I agree he needs to get the **** out of the middleweigt division. Just wouldnt really say he's a coward for not fighting GGG.

 

If there were any justice in boxing this disgraceful act perpetrated by Cotto should greatly affect his future purses. A cowardly act, s****ing the depths of all that is wrong with humanity should not be rewarded.

Scorn and torment should be his reward not multi million dollar paydays.

 

I would have a huge amount of respect for Cotto if he said "this is my fourth weight division, and it's not my best weight, and frankly Golovkin is a bridge too far" before vacating the belt.

It's the horse**** we get from Roach and his advisors, stating it's a fight he wins easily that gets me.

If they genuinly thought they'd win it they'd take the fight instead of a 200 year old K9.

 

Cotto fought the two best P4P fighters of this generation. At least Cotto went up in weight and won the belt. GGG must be even more of a coward because "he will not even try" to go up to fight the champs at 168 or 175.