Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, who handles former four division world champion Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs), would welcome a fight with IBO, WBA, WBC, IBF middleweight champion Gennady "GGG" Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) with open arms.
Cotto is slated to return to the ring on June 24th, with junior middleweight contender Yoshihiro Kamegai being mentioned as a candidate to fight him.
Cotto has been out of the ring since November 2015, when he lost a twelve round decision to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez. After two years of competing as a middleweight, he decided to return to 154-pounds.
Cotto was scheduled to fight back in February, against James Kirkland in the headliner of an HBO Pay-Per-View from Texas. The entire card fell apart after Kirkland suffered a fractured nose in training that forced him to withdraw.
The Puerto Rican star wants to fight in June and then close out his Hall of Fame career with a major fight in the fall.
Golovkin was in action last month at New York's Madison Square Garden, where he went the twelve round distance for the first time in his career against Daniel Jacobs. Golovkin had a tougher fight than expected and walked away with a close unanimous decision based on scores of 115-112, 115-112 and 114-113.
Roach felt Golovkin was exposed a bit in that contest and now feels confident that Cotto can beat him.
"[Cotto] might have a big fight coming up because we’re talking him and GGG next. That’s a fight that I do not turn down. I like GGG. He’s a friend of mine. He’s a very good worker. He’s a hard fight for anybody, he’s a very, very big puncher. But I think he’s beatable and I think he was exposed a little bit in his last fight. We’re ready for that. It’s the last super-fight out there in the weight division and that’s who we want to fight in our last fight. We want to make history,” Roach told Boxing News.