Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
Let's assume Margarito beats Williams... (and that is a HUGE assumption, I'm picking Williams to win)

Cotto and Arum are not going to pass up the big money of a Margarito fight in order to fight this bullshit #1 contender.

Normally, I'd say Cotto would just fight him in between (say in August/September), but I don't see that happening. Cotto is coming off a very physical fight, and he needs time for his cuts to heal. He needs some time off.

If I were Cotto and Arum, I'd tell the WBA to go to hell. Cotto doesn't need a belt at this point, he's made his name, he can get fights without having some worthless belt.
That's all well and good for selfless champions and any contender, but this would be a problem for champions like Freitas who would not have put his title on the line if Diaz had been stripped of his title for not fighting his mandatory. Unification and PPV fights seems to be the ultimate prizes these days and just about everybody is trying to 'get the best fights' and 'get the most money' even when they don't deserve them. Cotto is a name, but while anybody trying to come up is fine with him not being a champion, do you honestly think Margarito is going to face him just so he could say he beat a top Welterweight without the chance of unifying titles being on the table?