Comments Thread For: Cotto vs. Chavez Will Not Happen in 2011, Says Arum

[xAUGUSTUSx]

Cotto is'nt what he used to be and him moving up it might be more even than people think. Who else is Cotto going to fight? Chavez jr better hand his belt over to Martinez. Rubio will KO Chavez aswell. ********* has Chavez jr ranked #13 in the MW division with Jacobs and Lemieux ranked behind him. If you ask me he would'nt beat either one of those guys. So really he should be ranked #15 by *********. But somehow he's the top guy in the WBC?

[The Surgeon]

Dammit Bob!! Why the f*** not? Chavez Jr. father wanted it, the fans want it. Chavez jr, just put up 1.5 million viewers on HBO, we know Cotto puts viewers on HBO, make the bloody fight happen. Why risk Cotto losing, or Chavez jr losing? Remember what happened to Lopez/Gamboa The Fight is hot now! Make it happen.

I hate how Bob operates and how manufactured Chavez is but im glad its not happening. Is it really hot? Im a big Cotto fan and i cant see the point other than making Miguel a paper ABC titlist in a 4th weight class. Im a Cotto fan and a Fight fan, i wanna see my boy tested with guys like Margarito again plus we know style wise they (Margs and Migs) make for a great fight

[JJRod]

I hate how Bob operates and how manufactured Chavez is but im glad its not happening. Is it really hot? Im a big Cotto fan and i cant see the point other than making Miguel a paper ABC titlist in a 4th weight class. Im a Cotto fan and a Fight fan, i wanna see my boy tested with guys like Margarito again plus we know style wise they (Margs and Migs) make for a great fight

Margarito is a joke and a shell of what he used to be. Plus why would you want this cheater to ever benefit from your boy Cotto?

The fight is hot because all of the Chavez jr fans want to see it. And he has a lot of fans. Not to mention Cotto has a lot of fans. HBO numbers show that since 2007 the two biggest HBO non PPV fights have been Jr/Zbik, and Cotto/Foreman. The fight is hot now. No other fight for Cotto would generate a lot of money unless its against Alvarez, Mayweather or Pacquiao. And since Pac and May are tied to fights, and Alvarez is with GB, the easiest fight to make should be jr.

[CharliesRecords]

**** you Arum...everyone knows that you still want to suck this kid dry...

[John Smith III]

way to go... let cotto-chavez marinate for a while just like gamboa-lopez.

[Perez37]

**** u Arum.....This guys a slug.I didn't even want to see this fight, its just how he sets fans up that pisses me off. He had all believing they were going to fight then WHAM!
He figures out he is not ready, if he wasn't ready for Cotto then he wasn't ready for a title. He does this **** all the time! The sport of Boxing will thrive with out the slug....

[The Surgeon]

Margarito is a joke and a shell of what he used to be. Plus why would you want this cheater to ever benefit from your boy Cotto?

The fight is hot because all of the Chavez jr fans want to see it. And he has a lot of fans. Not to mention Cotto has a lot of fans. HBO numbers show that since 2007 the two biggest HBO non PPV fights have been Jr/Zbik, and Cotto/Foreman. The fight is hot now. No other fight for Cotto would generate a lot of money unless its against Alvarez, Mayweather or Pacquiao. And since Pac and May are tied to fights, and Alvarez is with GB, the easiest fight to make should be jr.

It seems Chavez's only fans are Mexicans who only like mexicans, basically biased idiots. Real figh fans want margarito 2 from what ive seen anyways

Fair points on the finacial side tho mate.

Id have preffered Tony be banned for life, didnt happen,
Id have preffered Tony be shunned by all the big names and never make any real paper again but Pac threw him a life line and a big money fight and now he's relevant. He's gonna fight again and will be making good money so im thinking let Cotto try for redemption and end that cheating ****s career

Margs isnt the same but boy he's still tough and his style isnt what Cotto likes plus Miguel has lost a step, people make this a close run thing...

I got Cotto tho

[p4p-champ]

Arum just basically admitted that this kid is no Champion, well done, bobby,

[JJRod]

It seems Chavez's only fans are Mexicans who only like mexicans, basically biased idiots. Real figh fans want margarito 2 from what ive seen anyways

Fair points on the finacial side tho mate.

Id have preffered Tony be banned for life, didnt happen,
Id have preffered Tony be shunned by all the big names and never make any real paper again but Pac threw him a life line and a big money fight and now he's relevant. He's gonna fight again and will be making good money so im thinking let Cotto try for redemption and end that cheating ****s career

Margs isnt the same but boy he's still tough and his style isnt what Cotto likes plus Miguel has lost a step, people make this a close run thing...

I got Cotto tho

I won't dispute this, but this is basically boxing. It has always been an ethnic sport. Its no different than many Filipinos who got into boxing because of Pacquiao, or the Polish who only follow Adamek, man English who followed Ricky Hatton.

Right now the latino market is the biggest in boxing. This is why when there is a highly regarded mexican prospect he is protected to no end, because they know they can suck the market dry. e.g. Canelo Alvarez, Chavez jr, Ortiz (prior to Maidana he was going to be the next Oscar) Angulo, (before Cintron) etc.

I agree, that Margarito would still be tough for Cotto, which is why I would not want to see it. I don't want to see Margs fight and actually have a chance to win.

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Top Rank's CEO, Bob Arum, advised BoxingScene.com that he will not go through with a rumored bout matching promotional stablemates WBA junior middleweight king Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs), who is 30, and newly-crowned, 25-year-old WBC middleeweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (43-0-1, 30 KOs).

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what has cotto done to earn a shot at chavez jr at 160 IB? he should be concentrating on a margarito rematch or a 154 IB unification fight and same applies to chavez jr they both should just concentrate on their own weight divisions either then calling each other out or fighting other guys of different weight divisions......