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By TK Stewart - He breaks eye sockets, noses and shoulders when his bone hammers land, so maybe that's why the only fight anybody ever talks about for Miguel Cotto is against one Floyd Mayweather Jr.
When reporters poke their microphones in front of the stone-faced king of the World Boxing Association's welterweights, they don't ask him many questions about Alfonso Gomez, whom he will meet at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall on April 12th.
No, the questions that pound the Puerto Rican like the steady waves on the beaches of San Juan, are about what he thinks of "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Mayweather, of course, is the undefeated champion of trash talk and flash as well as the WBC's version of welterweight royalty. He is everything that Miguel Cotto is not. Want bling? He's got it in rivulets. Want cash? "Money" is his new middle name. He hangs with rappers late into the Las Vegas night and has his own personal cadre that keep back the crowds. He told an interviewer last week that, "I will make $170 million this year."
Did we mention that he's also the top pound-for-pound boxer on the planet and in the past year or so he's beaten Oscar De La Hoya, danced with the stars, knocked out Ricky Hatton, played in the NBA celebrity All Star Game, and just the other night donned a set of brass knuckles and beat the 441-pound "Big Show" in Wrestlemania XXIV? [details]
When reporters poke their microphones in front of the stone-faced king of the World Boxing Association's welterweights, they don't ask him many questions about Alfonso Gomez, whom he will meet at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall on April 12th.
No, the questions that pound the Puerto Rican like the steady waves on the beaches of San Juan, are about what he thinks of "Pretty Boy" Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Mayweather, of course, is the undefeated champion of trash talk and flash as well as the WBC's version of welterweight royalty. He is everything that Miguel Cotto is not. Want bling? He's got it in rivulets. Want cash? "Money" is his new middle name. He hangs with rappers late into the Las Vegas night and has his own personal cadre that keep back the crowds. He told an interviewer last week that, "I will make $170 million this year."
Did we mention that he's also the top pound-for-pound boxer on the planet and in the past year or so he's beaten Oscar De La Hoya, danced with the stars, knocked out Ricky Hatton, played in the NBA celebrity All Star Game, and just the other night donned a set of brass knuckles and beat the 441-pound "Big Show" in Wrestlemania XXIV? [details]
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