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What's up with Cotto's carrer trajectory? He went from fighting Margarito, Clottey, and Pacquiao to fighting Foreman and Chavez Jr? Yuri Foreman is a good fighter and he showed a lot of guts in the Cotto fight, but Cotto is sitting out the rest of the year and then plans to fight Chavez Jr. Arum: If Chavez Beats Gomez, He Will Get Miguel Cotto - Boxing News That is a pretty weak schedule. It's not like Wlad where there isn't good opposition to chose from. The division is stacked: Martinez, Williams, Dzinzurik, Angulo, Margarito, Cintron, even Martirosyan, which are all tougher fights than Chavez Jr. and fight at or around that weight.

Personally, I never saw Cotto as a true junior middleweight. To me, he was even a smallish welterweight. I thought he made a convenient move up to fight a lucrative fight with Foreman and I think if he takes the Chavez Jr. fight that at this point in his career, he is making the conscious decision to take money fights, not difficult fights. I doubt we'll see him in against any of the aforementioned top junior middleweights. In my opinion, the best days of Cotto are behind him. What say you?
Does Cotto deserve criticism? That depends, on if you see this fight as Cotto taking a step down, or Chavez taking a step up. How is Chavez going to fight better opposition if they will be criticized just for fighting him.

I see this fight as more Chavez finally stepping up in competition than Cotto taking an easy fight. So no I won't criticize him.
Chavez is stepping up in competiton. Granted, I think he is seeing a Cotto that is on the slide, but even a Cotto on the slide, is a big step up in competition for Chavez. I'm not mad at Chavez for taking this fight at all. Actually, it is a great stepping-stone fight for him at this stage.

But, I guess I'm beginning to think of Cotto as just fighting now for the pay days. Maybe there is nothing wrong with that given the wars he has been through. But, if that's the case, then we should just call him for what he is, a mostly shot fighter looking for a pay day. Once again, Top Rank is doing its job as a promoter.