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Chavez Jr. Rips Cotto Over Catch-Weight Fights
Posted by: Edward Chaykovsky on 10/26/2015
By Edward Chaykovsky
Super middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is backing his countryman, Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (45-1-1, 32KOs), to beat WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (40-4, 33KOs) of Puerto Rico on November 21 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The fight headlines an HBO Pay-Per-View event and takes place at a catch-weight of 155-pounds.
Cotto is trained by Freddie Roach, who previously trained Chavez Jr. for several years.
For quite a long time, there was talk of an all-Mexico showdown between Chavez Jr. and Canelo - but now the two fighters are too far apart in weight, with Chavez unable to make 168 in his last two outings and Canelo fighting a pound above junior middleweight.
Chavez Jr. reveals that he doesn't like Cotto. In the opinion of the Mexican boxer, Cotto is involving himself in uneven contests with catch-weight requirements.
Chavez himself has been involved in a few catch-weight bouts, due to his weight struggles. That didn't help him much in April, when light heavyweight Andrzej Fonfara knocked him out.
"I pick Canelo [to beat Cotto] because he's Mexican, he's younger and I don't like too much Cotto, because he fight no good fighters at catch-weights, and these things the people know who wins. He needs to fight somebody like Canelo, like Lara, all these fighters. Lara, Canelo, Andrade..all of these fighters are better than this guy," Chavez Jr. told Fight Hub.
Chavez Jr. Rips Cotto Over Catch-Weight Fights