Why didnt lemieux and cotto fight ?

I personally think they didn't want Cotto bowing out on a stretcher

 

Maybe because cotto knows he would get KTFO?

 

It was never finalized. Lemieux was on the short list that Cotto was looking at for his farewell PPV, and everybody presumed it would be Lemieux because of the lack of scheduling availability or star power of anybody else on the list. Then outta the blue comes Sadam Ali, whom I don't think anybody had on their radar as Cotto's potential last opponent, so Lemieux is left to fend for himself and find another opponent.

 

^ so I guess technically you could say Cotto "ducked" Lemieux by not choosing him from the list of guys he was looking at for his last match, but that isn't really what the word ducking is supposed to mean. It wasn't like there was a reasonable expectation or impetus for Cotto to fight Lemieux. His name just happened to make the shortlist because there weren't many other big name dance partners available that could sell a PPV out there.

 

Would have been a tasty fight

 

At some point they are exchanging hooks on the inside and I think Lemieux's the one left standing.

 

cotto never really wanted a middle weight fight for his final fight

 

Cotto isn't really a middleweight and I doubt he really wanted to fight a big 160lber who is capable of knocking him spark out. Lemieux got offered a title shot against Saunders. Better options out there for both fighters. No duck, just the way it panned out.

 

it was a mismatch anyway david is too big and too powerful