WBA king Gennady Golovkin would be the best choice, in my opinion, but Cotto trainer, Freddie Roach, disagrees?
?We see now through a glass in a dark manner.??1 Corinthians 13:12
Miguel Cotto became the WBC and lineal middleweight champ by retiring Sergio Martinez in the 10th at Madison Square Garden on June 7. He?s scheduled to make his first title defense at the Mecca of Boxing on December 13.
Prospective opponents include unranked Andy Lee, Marco Antonio Rubio, assuming he defeats Gennady Golovkin on October 18 (he won?t), or?get this?welterweight Timothy Bradley at a catch-weight of maybe 155. Why not Edgar Sosa over at fly while we?re at it? Hey, a malted milkshake or two should do the trick. Not under consideration, apparently, are IBF middleweight champ Sam Soliman, former IBF titleholders Felix Sturm or Daniel Geale, WBO champ Peter Quillin, or WBA king Gennady Golovkin. The Kazakh would be the best choice, in my opinion, but Cotto trainer, Freddie Roach, disagrees. Golovkin has yet to prove himself worthy of finding himself in the ring with the Puerto Rican warrior, says Roach.
Let?s pause a moment to define a term, shall we? Bull.shit (b l sh t ). Vulgar, but wonderfully useful, slang. When used as a transitive verb: ?To attempt to mislead or deceive by talking nonsense??e.g., ?Golovkin has yet to prove himself worthy of finding himself in the ring with the Puerto Rican warrior.?
Step up to the 160-pound plate, Miguel, or turn in that tin WBC badge of yours and head back to junior, where Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez is waiting. But he, too, is problematic, isn?t he, Freddie? Not listed on the Social Register? Insufficiently Mexican-looking? You?ll think of something.
?I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage,? wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. ?Come back, come back, O glittering and white.? The middleweight division, like boxing itself, was not a mirage, but an oasis. And splendid. And glittering. And white. Stanley Ketchel and Billy Papke. Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale. Sugar Ray Robinson and Carmen Basilio. Miguel Cotto and?
Come back, come back, O glittering and white.
