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作者在文中给库托列出了所有可能的对手，但没有一个切合实际的，他认为库托只有一个选择，退休，或者退休之前可以打一场告别战。
上周六击败龟田喜宽后，库托让罗琦代答下一个对手选择问题，罗琦说要打戈洛夫金VS阿瓦雷兹之间的胜者。而且，库托在赛前赛后都明确表示过，12月31日之前退休。
但是，如果戈洛夫金击败阿瓦雷兹，他敢和戈洛夫金打么？反之，如果阿瓦雷兹击败戈洛夫金，库托又不肯去160磅，他在阿瓦雷兹，或者戈洛夫金面前根本就没有话语权。
还有就是，戈瓦战之后双方至少要休假一个月，到库托的退休时间不够训练用。如果阿瓦雷兹败给戈洛夫金，库托推迟退休时间，双方的战斗在还是值得一看的，如果选择在年底开战，不会有太多的吸引力。
库托三年前击败马丁内兹后从没有证明过自己。
如果库托告别战选择列米欧，既不能增加自己的遗产，风险又太高。上周六与米奇.加西亚之战被提起，但库托不能降到147磅之下了，要求米奇增加七磅，这完全就是一个不合理的要求。
154磅选择也很难，WBC冠军查洛，WBA冠军拉拉，IBF冠军郝德，他们10月14日会共同出现在布鲁克林巴克莱中心，保卫自己的冠军头衔。技术他们都赢了，时间和库托对不上号。
安德拉德是一个高风险低回报的对手，作为他16年职业生涯最后一场战斗的对手也不适合。如果特劳特击败郝德，库托可以报五败之一的仇，也不失为一个不错的选择，但特劳特不会去库托的日期。
综合考虑，退休可能是库托最明智的选择。
Canelo-Golovkin Winner Unrealistic; Maybe Cotto Should Retire
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By Keith Idec
Knowing he can always count on Freddie Roach to say something provocative, Miguel Cotto turned to his famous trainer Saturday night.
Cotto had just completely out-classed Yoshihiro Kamegai to win the vacant WBO super welterweight title at StubHub Center in Carson, California. The Puerto Rican icon’s unanimous-decision victory over the game Japanese contender marked Cotto’s first fight since his decisive loss to Canelo Alvarez in November 2015.
Naturally, when Cotto told Max Kellerman he’d allow Roach to pick the supposed final opponent of his Hall-of-Fame career, Roach replied that he wants Cotto to fight the winner of the highly anticipated bout between Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin on September 16 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
Roach’s ambitious answer sounded great, but it is extremely unlikely that Cotto will fight the Alvarez-Golovkin winner.
Cotto continued to say before and after he beat Kamegai that he won’t box beyond December 31 – that 2017 will, without question, be his last year in this sport. The four-division champion will turn 37 on October 29 and wants to spend more time with his family.
Based on that stipulation alone, the idea of fighting Alvarez or Golovkin is completely impractical.
Mexico’s Alvarez (49-1-1, 34 KOs) and Kazakhstan’s Golovkin (37-0, 33 KOs) are expected to partake in a grueling fight two weeks from Saturday night. No matter who wins or how, neither fighter will want to take only a month, perhaps less, before heading back into training camp for a fight against Cotto that would need to take place by mid-December.
It isn’t like either of them would need the money following their HBO Pay-Per-View showdown next month. It’s not like beating Cotto would do much for the status of Alvarez or Golovkin, either.
Alvarez already beat him comfortably in their 12-round fight for Cotto’s WBC middleweight title 21 months ago in Las Vegas. If Golovkin overcomes Alvarez, he’ll already have beaten an opponent who defeated Cotto.
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And honestly, who really believes that Roach or Cotto would want him to fight the bigger, stronger Golovkin, especially if one of boxing’s most ferocious finishers is coming off a victory over Alvarez? Cotto also refused to fight at the middleweight limit of 160 pounds, both as a challenger and champion.
That wouldn’t change if Cotto were to pursue a fight against Golovkin. Except then, Cotto wouldn’t be in any position to dictate terms to Golovkin (or Alvarez, if he wins).
If Cotto, like so many hasty boxers before him, postponed retirement and fought into 2018, a fight against Alvarez, even if he loses to Golovkin, would be a realistic, profitable option. But assuming Cotto’s commitment to retirement by the end of this year is firm, there aren’t many attractive alternatives to the Alvarez-Golovkin winner.
Retirement might be Cotto’s most sensible option at this point.
He has been one of boxing’s best-compensated fighters of this era and there’s seemingly no need for Cotto to keep fighting from a financial standpoint. Just three years removed from his epic upset of Sergio Martinez in their middleweight title fight at Madison Square Garden, Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) has nothing left to prove inside of a boxing ring.
Not after winning world titles in four weight classes. Certainly not after so many brutal brawls that have made the courageous Cotto an old 36.
Defeating David Lemieux wouldn’t do anything to enhance Cotto’s legacy and that type of challenge would be nowhere near safe enough to be considered some sort of farewell fight.
Cotto-Mikey Garcia, another fight that has gained some social media steam since Saturday night, would be difficult to make because of their size difference. Cotto can’t make welterweight anymore and asking Garcia to move up more than seven pounds, when he began 2017 as a lightweight, wouldn’t be a reasonable request.
There’s not a whole lot within the 154-pound division that makes much sense for Cotto’s final fight, either. Three other champions in that weight class – Jermell Charlo (WBC), Erislandy Lara (WBA super) and Jarrett Hurd (IBF) – are scheduled to defend their titles in separate bouts on the same card October 14 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Even if they all win, none of them would be able to meet Cotto’s December deadline after fighting that night. If Austin Trout were to beat Hurd for the IBF junior middleweight title October 14, a Cotto-Trout fight might be saleable because Cotto would get an opportunity to avenge one of his five defeats.
Again, though, Trout wouldn’t be ready to go by Cotto’s retirement date.
Demetrius Andrade is more than available, but the unbeaten WBA world super welterweight champion would be a high-risk, low-reward proposition for an aged Cotto. It’s tough to imagine Cotto and Roach accepting a tall, skilled southpaw as the opponent for the final fight of his 16-year pro career.
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