The first conference of the four-city Cotto-Canelo press tour got underway yesterday in Los Angeles, California. The bout itself, which will see Cotto’s WBC Middleweight title on the line, looks likely to deliver fireworks in abundance.
As for the event itself, it already seems to be building into one of the most lucrative attractions of 2015, much to the delight of Roc Nation and Golden Boy Promotions (who is co-promoting GGG-Lemieux in October). With modern day social media technologies such as Facebook and Twitter, Cotto-Canelo is set to arguably become the biggest Mexican-Puerto Rican match-up of all time. Fiscally.
FightHub TV cameras were at the press conference to catch all the action:
The Cotto-Canelo tour will be heading to Mexico later today, followed by New York on Wednesday, and will finally end in Cotto’s hometown of Caguas, Puerto Rico. In the pair’s most recent outings earlier this year, Miguel Cotto throttled Daniel Geale inside 4 rounds, while Canelo Alvarez demolished James Kirkland in 3.
Give us your thoughts on both men’s words in Los Angeles, and how significant this fight is for both men’s legacies.
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