Cotto vs. Mayweather a possibility for May 5th

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    WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr. is a possibility for May 5th, according to news from ESPN Golpe y Golpe. Cotto, 31, is now working with Top Rank on a fight by fight basis and is free to make fights with non-Top Rank fighters such as Mayweather.

    This could be off the table if Bob Arum, the promoter for Cotto, selects him as Manny Pacquiao’s next opponent in June or whenever Arum plans on letting Pacquiao fight again. Cotto is in the running for Pacquiao, and that would likely interest him more than a Mayweather bout because he was already badly beaten by Pacquiao two years ago and wants to try and avenge that defeat.

    A fight between Cotto and Mayweather would break Cotto’s three-fight streak of taking on older or physically injured fighters. Since Cotto was taken apart by Pacquiao three years ago, Cotto has been matched against Ricardo Mayorga, 38, Yuri Foreman and Antonio Margarito.

    Read more: http://www.boxingnews24.com/2012/01/cotto-vs-mayweather-a-possibility-for-may-5th/#more-93776
     

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