K2’s Tom Loeffler, the US-based promoter for Gennady Golovkin, told me he hadn’t heard from Team Cotto, about a unification fight, days after he and I spoke about Team Golovkins’ hunger to tangle with the Puerto Rican in the near future.
“I have nothing but respect for Cotto and his people,” Loeffler told me today, at MSG, before the Klitschko-Jennings presser. But, he said, he’s basically like all of us, in waiting mode, for what Floyd chooses to do.
Floyd is the A side Godzilla, and can wave a wand and make a fight with Manny Pacquiao happen…or not.
And if he does, then Cotto needs, or would seemingly need, a dance partner for his next fight.
In June, in NY, against Golovkin…certainly makes sense from a few standpoints. But basically, until Floyd embraces the D word, decision, all of us are in a holding pattern.
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-The Commish :
That's exactly what Cotto is waiting for. He knows he'll lose to both $$$May & GGG, but against GGG he'll get paid less and banged up more. It's wise for Cotto to sit back awhile longer and survey the landscape. -Randy G.
-Radam G :
Keep on waiting 3g! The eagle is yet not $h???ng enough to may it worth the scrap for M-Co. Money talks! Bullsyet walks. No bread, you are waiting a Thread. When the paying powers that be decides to put out, very loud for the showdown, Team M-Co will shout. It is all about da MONEEE! You have to have it to live in this world of milk and HONEEE! Holla!
-Radam G :
-The Commish :
-StormCentre :
Yes I agree - I am surprised how down on MM you are RG. I think he does an ever better job on Cotto this time if they fight again. Floyd is too smart not too, and I don't see Cotto changing his style much; even with Roach. I'm not even sure Cotto himself hasn't really slipped a lot more than it seems. As, both Rodriguez and Martinez are not really the best gauges to use to see where Miguel is at. Getting back to the title of this thread; I hope Tom Loeffler is not surprised at the lack of communication from team Cotto. Cause I wouldn't be.
-brownsugar :
-Skibbz :
-Froggy :
[quote=skibbz;75643]made me chuckle very well said, couldn't agree more.
ditto !-The Commish :
DOLLARS & SENSE There are fights for Cotto which make total sense and others which are total nonsense. Fights against Floyd Mayweather and Canelo Alvarez make total sense. Fights against anybody else makes little sense. Who's he gonna' put his middleweight title on the line who won't beat him? How about Sam Soliman? -Randy G.
-kenhissner :
GGG is now interim WBC champ and Cotto should be made to fight the winner of GGG and Murray or vacate his title. Mayweather isn't fighting at 160.
-Carmine Cas :
Lol don't hold your breath Tom Loeffler. Unless Cotto is getting something like $20 million or so :cool: I don't foresee that fight happening. Cotto is at the point in his career where he selects the most lucrative yet smoothest encounters in the ring. I think Cotto's confidence has improved under Roach not much else, it's difficult to gauge.
-StormCentre :
-Radam G :