By Lem Satterfield
Top Rank CEO Bob Arum will present Miguel Cotto with two options when the Puerto Rican fighter attends next Saturday's fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Alfonso Gomez in Anaheim, California. Cotto will have the option of defending his WBA 154-pounds title against Chavez, should he win, in a big March clash.
The other option will be a New-York based doubleheader in the month of June, featuring Cotto and Chavez in separate fights. The card would be a build-up for a Cotto-Chavez showdown at the end of the year. The main event of the doubleheader would feature a rematch between Cotto and Antonio Margarito. The co-feature would have Chavez Jr. facing former 154-pound champion Yuri Foreman.
Arum will present both options to Cotto and his adviser, and then it's up to Cotto to make a decision as to which option works best.
"I have to sit down with Miguel and his adviser, and they're coming to Chavez's fight Dec. 4, and I want to see what they want to do. There's risks, and there are rewards, and there is all of that good stuff. And I will tell them what's involved in any future fights for them," Arum said.
"What I want to do is irrelevant. I give the fighters their options of what I can produce and the prices that I can pay, or the guarantees that I can pay, and then, I leave it up to the fighters to choose. But if we're going to do those fights, that would be a double-header. And we would be going to do it in conjunction with the Puerto Rican Day Parade where there are thousands of Puerto Ricans coming from the island. We could do it, and, hopefully, make a deal with the Meadowlands and do it there."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.