By Lyle Fitzsimmons
The younger, bigger, stronger man did what younger, bigger, stronger men do.
And in boxing terms in Las Vegas on Saturday night, that meant 25-year-old Canelo Alvarez was the man of the hour in scoring a wide unanimous decision over 35-year-old Miguel Cotto in their WBC middleweight championship fight atop a pay-per-view card at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
The win, in addition to improving the red-headed Mexican to 46-1-1 in a decade-long pro career, provided his second weight class championship and positioned him for myriad big fight possibilities with many of the sport's highest-profile starts.