Could GGG Cotto series have made HUGE MSG #’s while pandering “Puerto Rican Style?!”

**Citizen Koba** · 01-30-2020, 05:11 PM

Originally posted by Young Bidness

Just what if Abel Sanchez convinced GGG to fight Cotto at a 155 catchweight and Abel, Loeffler and HBO agreed that saying GGG loves Jose Torres style or that he loves “Puerto Rican Style” while Cotto and GGG fight for MSG supremacy?

Who you guys got at 155? I don’t think GGG would’ve ever performed well making the 155 scale considering most of us have seen him gauntly like Lurch at 160 weigh ins for a hot minute.

So how would sales have done at MSG as well as PPv?

Impossible to say, man, I'm pretty sure GGG could have made 155 OK at age 30 but by 2015 or so and age 33 it's more doubtful. What isn't doubtful - to my mind at least - is that the Cotto fight was never even on the cards even if Golovkin had said he'd go to 155. The WBC had been lining up the Cotto / Canelo / Maravilla match-ups since 2013 by their own admission, they weren't abpout to let GGG get in the way of that and Miguel had absolutely no reason to fight Golovkin anyway. Why would he when he had the Canelo fight all lined up? Besides, he showed exactly how much he cared about the belt when he dropped it right before fighting Canelo.

Had GGG tried to force the issue I'm pretty confident the WBC would have just made an exception for Cotto vs Canelo, and it's my guess that Golovkin & co had been quietly informed that this would be the outcome if they didn't play ball, although naturally I can't prove this.

**pacmanis1** · 01-30-2020, 05:42 PM

Unless the 5 pounds drain him GGG wrecks Cotto. And that’s not a slam against Cotto, weight divisions exist for a reason.

**mxtali** · 01-30-2020, 08:30 PM

As long as GGG is like at 80% yeah he runs over Cotto still.

Could GGG Cotto series have made HUGE MSG #’s while pandering “Puerto Rican Style?!”