According to Dan Rafael of ESPN, there is talk of World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) fighting junior middleweight contender and fellow Top Rank fighter Vanes Martirosyan (28-0, 17 KO’s) next. I don’t quite understand this fight happening now. Martirosyan, 24, is ranked number #4 by the WBA, but really hasn’t fought anyone besides Kassim Ouma and Joe Greene. I thought that Ouma should have beaten Martirosyan in their fight in January of this year. But whether he won or lost, Martirosyan did not look at all good against a fighter that he should have been able to handle without too many problems. By putting Martirosyan in with Cotto, I see this as serving up Cotto an easy opponent for him to hold onto his WBA title for a little while longer. I’d much prefer Cotto to be matched against WBO junior middleweight interim champion Alfredo Angulo. I think that would be a great fight and might end up being similar to Cotto’s fight against Antonio Margarito two years ago in 2008. Cotto got beaten up in that fight and ended up getting stopped in the 11th. That might be reason enough for Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum not to put him in with a big puncher like Angulo. But Martirosyan doesn’t seem ready for a fighter like Cotto, not that Martirosyan ever will be. Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2010/08/cotto-to-fight-martirosyan-next/
