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?