Arum is apparently dead set on these two fighting eachother. To prepare Cotto for this fight he put Cotto in there with Mosely and wants to match him with Clottey in March(assuming he can't land a fight between Cotto and DLH or Mayweather). The fight with Margo would be in June. To prepare Margo for this fight he put him in there with tomato can Golden Johnson and wants to match him with washed up Jose Louis Castillo(this is not a typo) on Cotto's undercard in March.
Yeah Margo is a hell of a fighter but he's a step back for Cotto whos ready for some superfights ( Hatton,Mayweather, ODLH etc)
With Cotto coming off the big win against Mosley, Arum would love to match him with De La Hoya in May. If not De La Hoya, Arum would to match him with Floyd Mayweather, assuming Mayweather defeats Ricky Hatton on Dec. 8. However, neither fighter is very interested in facing Cotto at this point, even though Cotto brings a large fan base and exciting style to the table. Arum said Cotto-Mosley sold more than 400,000 pay-per-view subscriptions, which makes it the second-most successful PPV of the year behind only the record-breaking Mayweather-De La Hoya fight, which did 2.4 million buys. Mayweather-Hatton will also surely surpass 400,000. In any case, Arum is thinking about Cotto's Plan B so he can keep him on a March-June-fourth quarter fighting schedule. Without a De La Hoya or Mayweather fight, Arum wants to match Cotto with rugged contender Joshua Clottey, whom Arum also promotes, in March on HBO in either Atlantic City or Puerto Rico. HBO owes Cotto one more fight, too, under the terms of a mini-contract they did earlier this year. Clottey would have to get past Shamone Alvarez on Dec. 20. Arum said he would put Antonio Margarito on Cotto's March undercard and, if they both win, match them in June on HBO PPV at New York's Madison Square Garden on the eve of the annual Puerto Rican Day parade, a date Cotto has fought on the past three years. The New York fans got a look at Margarito last week on the Cotto-Mosley undercard as he dusted Golden Johnson in the first round. If you ask me, Cotto-Margarito is one of the best action fights that can be made in boxing. For Margarito's March fight, Arum said he's thinking about matching him with former two-time lightweight champion Jose Luis Castillo, who was last seen by most people getting destroyed by Hatton in June. Castillo did return recently in Mexico to win a welterweight bout. Arum knows he'll have trouble selling a Margarito-Castillo fight to HBO, so he is not married to Castillo as the opponent "but that's the fight I would like to make," he said.
Clottey vs. Cotto would be very interesting to watch. JLC would get killed though as he has never looked great since moving to welterweight due to weight troubles.
wait, wait, wait...... Cotto fought Mosley to prepare him for Margo? :rofl... That is CLASSIC! Maybe he should set Cotto up against Mayweather to prepare him for Collazo...:rofl
I think Cotto v Margarito will make money but not huge money that DLH or mayweather would make. It would do under 400 000 PPV