Geale looked a little weakened by the 157 weight limit,but take nothing away from Cotto,who concentrated on hurting Geale to the body and curbed the aggressiveness that Geale would have to use to have any chance at victory.
The victory enabled Cotto to look forward to a big dollar match with Canelo Alvarez,which he seemed quite excited about,unlike his answer when asked about Gennady Golovkin of "Uhhhhhhh".
The WBC should step up and force Cotto to face Golovkin next or vacate its title,but they don't want to lose the huge sanctioning fees from Cotto-Alvarez to do the right thing.
Cotto-Alvarez should be an excellent bout and one worth watching,but with a 160 pound limit-not these ridiculous catchweights.
Root for Alvarez,I believe he would take on the challenge of Golovkin.
I don't believe Cotto will ever fight him.
I said it a year ago after his win over Sergio Martinez and I stand by that.
On the PBC side,Robert Guerrero (holder of a Zabbie) was given what seemed to be a soft touch in 19-3 and just four knockouts,Aron Martinez.
The idea was to give Guerrero a showcase to look good and then build him back up for a bigger bout after his entertaining,albeit one-sided loss to Keith Thurman,
Instead after the light punching Martinez dropped Guerrero in round four,never was seriously hurt by Guerrero and gave him all he wanted,we went to the cards where of course some judge put up a ridiculous card and a split decision for the PBC favorite.
I agreed with one judges 95-94 card for Martinez and could see an argument for the others 95-94 for Guerrero,but the final card of 97-92 for Guerrero smacks as another one of those awful cards that was filled out before the fight began.
If I'm PBC,I get Guerrero in the ring with a young fighter that needs a name on his resume' (Errol Spence?) fast because if he's life and death with a Aron Martinez type-he's fading fast....
Minor featherweight champ Jesus Cuellar knocked out Vic Darchinyan in the eighth round in a reasonably entertaining bout that continued to build Cuellar as a future opponent for three guys that rarely seem interesting in fighting good competition,
Gary Russell,Leo Santa Cruz and Abner Mares compose that troika,but Cuellar holds a minor WBA belt,a division that has the hard hitting Nicholas Walters as its main champion.
Walters would be Cuellar's eventual foe,if the WBA followed its own rules,but Walters is a Top Rank fighter,so it's doubtful you'll see that fight.
Cuellar may be stuck in no man's land.
As for Darchinyan,who has now been stopped in his last three fights against top fighters,he still fights in an entertaining style and makes good action fights,but is incapable of winning them because his chin just cannot hold up anymore.
He may need to just hang up the gloves...
As for the boxing challenge-We each earned four points.
Two for the Cuellar win and one each for the Cotto and Guerrero wins.
I hold the lead at 63-62
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