Saul “Canelo” Alvarez faces one of the toughest and most versatile opponents of his career in Miguel Cotto on Saturday at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.
Some would deny this due to the length of Cotto’s resume, but Alvarez is confronting a man who defeated Sergio Martinez as an underdog in capturing the lineal middleweight championship in June 2014. Make no mistake, love him or hate him, Alvarez is a special fighter and has identified himself as one of the sport’s premier boxer/punchers. What exactly is a boxer/puncher? This is definitely an intriguing question, as some would identify Cotto as such, but this article will pose a slightly different perspective in contrasting the two.