Hopefully Cotto will not allow this to be a distraction. I don't see why the WBC couldn't have just waited until after the fight. If Cotto had won, they could strip him then. If Canelo had won, it wouldn't matter. I doubt it's as simple as Cotto not wanting to pay the sanctioning fee, but I imagine we'll find out soon enough.
Even if the belt doesn't mean that much to Cotto, it's pretty lame that this happened on fight week.
As I saw it, Canelo's performance in the Mayweather fight isn't one which Oscar should use defending Canelo. Canelo averaged less than 10 punches landed per round 117/12 = 9.75 especially as Floyd landed 19.33 per round and was just shy of doubling the number of total punches landed per round by Canelo (Floyd = 232 total landed and Saul = 117 landed).
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