Geale Confident He Can Exploit Miguel Cotto's Flaws

Australia's Daniel Geale is very confident as he approaches one of the biggest fights of his career, a big-money match-up against Puerto Rican star Miguel Cotto for the WBC middleweight title in Brooklyn, New York on June 6th.

Cotto will defend his belt for the first time against the 34-year-old Tasmanian at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn – the home of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets – in a fight televised on HBO in the United States.

The fight is a big coup for Geale (31-3), having lost his two bouts in the US over the past two years.

"I want this one badly. It's something that we have wanted for a while and I'm extremely excited. I've got guys like Gary Shaw and my team at the Grange from Australia and they are working very hard behind the scenes. I'm just going to worry about my job and they do their job greatly. I just worry about getting myself in perfect condition," Geale said.

Geale was knocked out by Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin for the WBA (Super) and IBO middleweight titles in New York last July and lost his IBF middleweight title to England’s Darren Barker in New Jersey in 2013.

Geale’s last bout was a 12-round win over Australian Jarrod Fletcher in Sydney last December.

Cotto (39-4) is a classy, orthodox boxer who has won world titles in four different weight classes since 2003.

The 34-year-old’s rare losses include ones to Floyd Mayweather in 2012 at super light middleweight level and to Philippines legend Manny Pacquiao at welterweight level.

"Cotto has trouble in stages against guys that move and use their reach. He knows that's what I'm going to be doing and he's going to be trying to counter that with aggression and coming forward. I'm going to use my abilities and not get caught up in his game plan," Geale said.

"The game plan is to go in and fight my fight. It's not to get sucked in. It's not to get caught up in what he [Cotto] is doing. It's to do what I do best."

"This is going to be a huge fight for me. Fighting a guy like Miguel who's fought some of the greatest fighters is going to be a great test. We're going in very confident."