By Miguel Rivera

Former middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. views his Mexican rival, Saul "Caelo" Alvarez (44-1-1, 31KOs) as a slight favorite to defeat WBC 160-pound champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32KOs) of Puerto Rico.

Their mutual promoters want to stage the fight in May of next year. Both of them were scheduled to fight on separate dates in December, but now both of them are looking to return in 2015. Canelo wants to go straight into a fight Cotto and the Puerto Rican veteran is possibly go to have an interim fight.

"I think it's a good fight. It has all of the ingredients of a fight that people want to see. One fighter is tremendous technically, another seems to have power, one is young and the other is slightly bigger, one has a lot of history on his side and other is just starting his. People follow them both, it's a good fight," Chavez Jr. told ESPN Deportes.

"The fight is tough. I think youth, with power, and not having to battle with weight - Canelo is a slight favorite, but Cotto has [trainer] Freddie Roach and he knows a lot."