Cotto: ‘This is Just Another Fight for Me’

By Olly Campbell - 11/16/2015 - Comments

WBC middleweight champion, Miguel Cotto is refusing to get drawn into the hype surrounding Saturday’s Mexico/Puerto Rican mega-clash with enormously popular young challenger, ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, insisting the HBO PPV clash is ‘Just another fight for me.’

The Puerto Rican future Hall of Fame shoo-in has refused to speculate on a future fight with mandatory challenger and dominant Kazakh champ, Gennady Golovkin, who holds WBA and IBF straps, and whom fans are desperate to see the winner of Saturday’s clash square off against.

With Cotto approaching the end of a long and illustrious career, that has seen him become the only Puerto Rican fighter to win 4 world titles in as many weight classes, speculation is such that retirement is a realistic option in the none-too-distant future as he enters pro-fight 45, holding a belt that he thus far refuses to defend at it’s correct and sanctioned limit of 160 lbs.

“Well, this is just another fight for me. It’s my fight No. 45 and, like I said before, I’m well prepared and there is no difference, so it’s just another fight for me, and I’m going to do my best,” he said non-chalantly on the recent media conference call about the prospect of making his 2nd defence.

“I’ve been working very hard on this, and I’m physically and mentally prepared, and with all the training I’m pretty sure that I’m going to be the one who is going to win this fight.

“Saturday, we going to see who is going to be the best in there, but like I said before, he has his ideas, and I have my ideas and whoever is well prepared is going to win this fight, and pretty much it’s going to be myself.

“Boxing is the only thing I know to do in life. I’ve been working for the benefit of my family. I said before that I’m going to retire myself. I am 35 years old. I plan to be in boxing no longer than a year from now.

“It’s going to be my fight No. 45, nothing special with it,” he added.

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