Poll Position: How the Fans Voted

Miguel Cotto added an extra seven pounds of weight to his 140-pound frame and we all saw the results when he won the WBA welterweight crown by stopping Carlos Quintana at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City. Of course, the seven extra pounds Cotto gained didn’t translate into seven extra pounds of love handles. It meant seven more pounds of power, seven more pounds of intelligence, and seven less pounds of depletion trying to make the junior welterweight limit. And now that Cotto has a title in what may be the deepest division in the sport, his options, and his potential opponents, are many. Margarito has the WBO strap, Cintron’s got the IBF’s, and PBF, until, unless, he retires, holds the WBC welter crown. Throw in wildcards like Paul Williams and Luis Collazo, and you’ve got a combustible blend of power, ring smarts, hunger and will to win. If you were heading up the Cotto brain trust, who would you match the Puerto Rican superstar with next?