Miguel Cotto: When will he get his chance at a mega-fight?

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Cotto vs Margarito (assuming they both win their next fight) will be a WW unification bout between two top 5 welters. This is enough to be a big fight.

But this thread is about MEGA-fights, and Cotto-Margarito is not even close to being that type of fight, because 99% of people in the US have no clue who Antonio Margarito is. That might not even be a PPV fight.

There is no way that fight is not a PPV event. Margarito should be pretty well known by now. He's been around the top of the division longer than any of the other welters.

I understand when you say it won't be a MEGA event in the way DLH - Mayweather or Hatton - Mayweather. But I think it will be as big as say Taylor - Pavlik or Calzaghe - Kessler.

Calzaghe vs. Kessler was the lowest rated HBO World Championship Boxing event in a while (maybe ever?) and it wasn't even a PPV. I'm sure it was pretty big in the UK, though.

As for Cotto's "mega-fight," if Cotto was a big enough name that had all of this recognition with the non-hard core fan, it WOULD HAVE BEEN a mega fight because we all know that Shane Mosley is a pretty big draw.

Think about it, Mayweather vs. Mosley would probably be 2nd only to Mayweather vs. Delahoya. Delahoya vs. Mosley would be huge, as well. Mosley vs. J. Taylor (would absolutely have to be at a catch weight) would also have been a big fight in terms of $$$.

Cotto needs to establish himself with a couple more big wins, stay at the top of boxing for a long while, and avoid fighting guys like Alfonso Gomez before he has the slightest chance of being anywhere near the level of a big money fighter