Cotto Should Fight The Ortiz-Berto Winner

[AnimalisticMeth]

I mean if we're going to be honest

Against Mayorga he did like 250K buys. If he were to fight someone like a Rodriguez type, I doubt his team could expect anything quite like that.

His last two fights were PPV but there was something going on. At least with Margs, you had the first fight, the controversy and everything else and against Floyd, well its Floyd.

Even if he fights a Canelo or Martinez, I'd expect PPV, but I don't expect 1M buys and probably not even 600-700K buys that the Margs fight brought. Just from an economic feasibility standpoint, nobody other than Mayweather or Pac can get him that 8M guarantee and whatever the upside of PPV that Mayweather is giving him. So I'm not entirely sure he has the numbers to consistently demand PPVs against what I feel is a dwindling amount of PPV co-stars in the sport.

For Canelo, I'm not sure if the American audiences really give a crap about him yet and I guess we'll find out when he headlines a PPV in Sept. I was already expecting him to speak english by now, in parts.

I'm sure he's going to love that 15+ million he's getting from this past Saturday, but how many times will he really be able to command that? I mean Floyd just earned his highest guarantee and I think he got about 15M in the Oscar fight, so it took him like 5-6 years to double that. Cotto doesn't have 5-6 years left in the game, hell I don't think he has 2-3 (at this kind of level)

I guess we'll see

Cotto got 5 million guranteed and 70% of the PPV buys against Margarito and 8 million guranteed and 35% of the PPV buys against Mayweather. After his fight with Mayweather, Cotto's stock is at an all time high so expect him to be hotter than ever on his next fight.

If he fights Ortiz he will get 65% and probably 4-5 million guranteed in a PPV that if Ortiz looks great against Berto would do somewhere from 500K to 700K. Outside of Pacquiao and Mayweather no one gets more.

[Evil Abed]

Oh I'm sorry. I missed the part where Ortiz and Berto went up to 154. Silly me

Apology accepted.

Get the silly out and come back when you can discuss boxing like a grown up.

[El Angel]

Not a bad idea. Interesting to see which way he goes next.

[The Gambler1981]

That is a possibility, I think Cotto could pull 300k against a stump currently so against a guy like that winner he shold be able to draw quite well.

[Evil Abed]

That is a possibility, I think Cotto could pull 300k against a stump currently so against a guy like that winner he shold be able to draw quite well.

I think Ortiz-Cotto could do 500K.

Ortiz got a ton of promotion when he fought Floyd and will get more in the rematch with Berto,