Hijacks the belt from a very injured Martinez. He then proceeds to want middleweight fights at super welter/light middle. If Cotto never got that belt we would be seeing much better middleweight bouts in a very competitive division. With that being said, I hope Geale takes that middleweight strap from him tonight(which i'm predicting he will).
Middleweight's been on a constant downward slide for a long time. Each generation of middleweights going back to somewhere in the early 90s has had less than the generation before. 154 and 168 did a real number on that division.