By Ruslan Chikov

Trainer Emanuel Steward is predicting a very hard contest when Miguel Cotto, a former champion at 140 and 147-pounds, moves up in weight to 154-pounds to challenge undefeated WBA champion Yuri Foreman on June 5 in Yankee Stadium located in New York.

Steward says the former champion from Puerto Rico is going to have a hard time in the fight and if Steward was selecting Cotto's opponent, he would not have chosen Foreman because there is nothing to indicate how well Cotto has recovered from the beating he took last November from Manny Pacquiao.

"It's going to be a very tough fight. If I was making the decision, I would not have picked Foreman as the opponent for his first fight back. I would have picked this fight somewhere down the line. I look at it as a 50-50 fight. Yuri is a very good fighter with a a lot of movement and I think that's the reason Manny Pacquiao's people passed on him," Steward told Golzka.