Comments Thread For: WBC: Cotto Must Face Golovkin After His Voluntary

[Scipio2009]

In an earlier story on BoxingScene.com, WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (39-4, 32KOs) made a strong statement with respect to a pending obligation to make a mandatory defense against Gennady Golovkin (32-0, 29KOs), who owns the WBC's interim title at the weight and the WBA/IBO versions.

Golovkin returned last week in Monte Carlo, where he stopped the WBC's silver champion Martin Murray in the eleventh round of action.
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Get ready for Golovkin vs Heiland, for the vacant WBC middleweight championship, in August/September. moving on

[Tony Trick-Pony]

This is great for the fans. Very happy to see this! Fight the top guys in your weight class or step aside so the big boys can rumble. No more putting off fights fans want to see!

[ИATAS]

If he wants to go back down in weight that is fine but he should make his intent clear. I don't consider it a duck, if he wants to pick on someone his own size or even most LMWs, most of whom are bigger than him.

It would be bs if he defends his lineal title in the new weight division he and Canelo created between 155-159. In that case he is ducking and holding the legit championship hostage.

Exactly. There is absolutely zero shame in Cotto dropping the belt and saying Hey I'm a JMW, Martinez was a one time thing for history, etc. Like Pac dropping his bogus WBC belt after Margarito, he made it clear he had no intentions of fighting at 154 again. If cotto has no intentions of defending his belt against Middleweights he needs to vacate or the WBC simply needs to strip him. It's obviously not fair to all the middleweights who are campaigning at middleweight trying to become lineal champ/unify.

[PulpFriction]

Cotto will be facing Floyd in September should he beat Manny, and if he doesn't he'll face Canelo. He's his own boss.

No on gives a fk about mayweather-cotto II please stop it

[Build That Wall]

No on gives a fk about mayweather-cotto II please stop it

^^^^^^This.

[arraamis]

No on gives a fk about mayweather-cotto II please stop it

Yeah, perhaps Cotto can win three rounds this time around.

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I'm not really upset about Cotto avoiding Golovkin because I never took him seriously as a middleweight champion to begin with.

As soon as you saw that clip of Sergio "shadowboxing" like he had a steel rod up his ass before the Cotto fight you knew he was still injured and therefore knew how this lame Cotto as MW champ storyline would go.

Golovkin-Cotto is funny like Klitschko-Briggs but who honestly wants to see it? It would just be 30 seconds of laughter.

[kiaba360]

I agree with the sentiment that Cotto will wait for September, whether it be for Floyd or Canelo.

[Hougigo]

I agree with the sentiment that Cotto will wait for September, whether it be for Floyd or Canelo.

It's funny if he does that to avoid the rule of having to face his mandatory... when he would have not defended his title for more than a year... which is almost triple the amount you're allowed to go without defending it.

[Hougigo]

LOL, WBC won't enforce shit