Saul "Canelo" Alvarez is waiting for Miguel Cotto to decide whether or not he will ditch Top Rank and HBO, springing for a ten-figure offer from Golden Boy to fight on March 8th.
Cotto seems to have several offers under consideration, though and is in apparently no rush to make up his mind. Fellow 154-lb. champion Carlos Molina is making his voice heard is trying to take advantage of Cotto's silence to get noticed.
Molina went on the offensive and called out Alvarez, as well as veteran Shane Mosley and up-and-comer Demetrius Andrade. Molina criticized the current boxing culture in which champions fight infrequently in big-money pay-per-view, and claims to be different.
"I don't care who it is. I know everyone says that but I mean it," Molina said of who his next opponent will be. "I would like to bring boxing back to how it was in the old days, with guys fighting all the time. Fighters fight and that's what I want to do. I'm ready to go."
Molina's manager backed up that claim, saying "Carlos is old-fashioned that way. He'll be ready to go no matter the date and they can put any junior middleweight in the word in front of him."
Molina, who won the IBF junior middleweight belt on September 14th from Ishe Smith took his comments a step further by naming names. "I want to be an old-school champion. I'll fight anybody. I want to be recognized as the best in my division and I feel like I'm ready to go out and get victories against the top guys and unify the belts. If Mosley or Alvarez or Andrade want to be next, I'll be ready."
A fight with Alvarez or Andrade could certainly be in the cards. If Cotto decides against facing Canelo, Alvarez may line up Molina as the first of three fights he plans on having in 2014. If not, Andrade could get a chance at Molina's title with the winner eventually getting Alvarez down the line.
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