WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is set to take on Mexican challenger Canelo ‘Saul’ Alvarez this coming Saturday (Nov. 21) at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas in what promises to be an action-filled event.
It will be actually a battle between experience against youth, with critics voicing out their belief on how the fight will go.
There are some like Gennady Golovin who believe that Alvarez’ explosiveness, hunger and youth will be too much for Cotto to handle while others are leaning more on the fact that Cotto will use his wits to frustrate the Mexican’s charge.
If there is one fighter who can probably gauge how this fight will go is someone who has already fought both fighters. And that guy is Shane Mosley.
Mosley is one of few fighters who have had the chance to face both Cotto and Alvarez in his career. He unfortunately lost on both fights though in varying outcomes.
It could be recalled that Mosley lost to Cotto via close unanimous decision while losing the same to Alvarez via lopsided fashion. So with that in mind, it seems that the easy money for Mosley is to pick Alvarez as a favorite. That is however not the case.
Mosley has opted to go with experience in this one, believing that the Puero Rican with the guidance of legendary trainer Freddie Roach will find a way to frustrate the aggressive nature of Alvarez.
“Cotto has been around the block a little bit longer and he knows how to fight guys to win. With Canelo right now, I don’t know if he knows how to find a way to win,” says Mosley via Fighthub.com.
Aside from himself, there another common opponent that both Cotto and Alvarez fought was Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Summing it all up, Mosley singles out the fact that Floyd Mayweather Jr. himself admitted that Cotto was a harder opponent compared to Alvarez.
“Mayweather said ‘Oh man, why didn’t you tell me he [Cotto] was so hard to fight.’ I told you he’s hard to fight,’” Mosley bared when he and the undefeated spoke in comparing their respective tiffs with both fighters.
For his part, Alvarez has used that lopsided loss to Mayweather as added motivation against Cotto, believing that the defeat has molded him into a batter fighter.
That of course remains to be seen and it may all boil down on which camp has the perfect game plan heading towards the epic clash.
For the ones who want to view the fight via pay-per-view, HBO will cover the bout starting at 9:00 p.m. ET/ 6:00 p.m. PT.