Miguel Cotto the promoter has been busy with his promotional company signing young Puerto Rican boxing talent and making a foray into concert promoting.Cotto the future Hall of Fame boxer has been a lot less busy.At 35, Cotto is in the twilight of his career, during which he came out of the 2000 Olympics to become one of the sports biggest and most exciting stars as well as the first Puerto Rican fighter to win world titles in four weight divisions (junior welterweight, welterweight, junior middleweight and middleweight).In recent years, however, Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) has picked his spots to fight. He boxed only once in 2013 (following a 10-month layoff), once in 2014 (when he knocked out Sergio Martinez to win the middleweight crown) and twice in 2015, returning from a year layoff to stop Daniel Geale in a middleweight title defense and then losing a decision and the title to Canelo Alvarez in their huge fight in November 2015.Since then there has been much discussion about Cottos next move. He and promoter Roc Nation Sports talked at length about a fight in the second half of this year. There were negotiations with Mexican star Juan Manuel Marquez, also a four-division titleholder, for a major pay-per-view fight, but Marquez is a smaller man and they could not agree on a catch weight acceptable to both fighters.Then there were conversations with HBO about a fight with former junior welterweight titlist and welterweight contender Lamont Peterson on Dec. 3 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. But nothing was ever finalized with one issue being that the date was too close to the Nov. 19 fight Roc Nation Sports is co-promoting between its other star fighter, Andre Ward, and unified light heavyweight titleholder Sergey Kovalev.So for the first time since his 2001 pro debut, Cotto will go through a calendar year without a ring appearance.We have had several conversations with Roc Nation about where Miguel is at and what he wants to do. Everything is good but with different circumstances he decided not to fight in 2016, Bryan Perez, a Miguel Cotto Promotions executive and Cottos close friend, told ESPN. We had different conversations about fighting in December but we decided not to fight and do it in the first part of 2017, between February or March.According to Perez, Cottos next fight will be the last one of the three-fight deal he signed with Roc Nation Sports in March 2015. While many have speculated that would likely be the final fight of Cottos career -- he has said he is looking ahead to life after the boxing ring -- Perez said it probably wont be.The next fight is the last fight on the agreement we signed in 2015 but Miguel feels healthy and good and wants to continue fighting, Perez said. He has the last word and will decide what to do and what his plan will be but he says he wants to continue to fight and to explore facing the best names out there and getting the best guarantee (in terms of money). He will fight twice in 2017.Although Cotto won the middleweight title, he fought below the division limit of 160 in all three of his title fights (155 and 153 twice). The mid-to-low 150s is where he intends to fight next.He will be comfortable fighting below 160, but whatever opportunities pop up and whatever fight is the best guarantee and benefits his career he will consider, Perez said. We will wait to see.Obviously, he is not going to go to welterweight.Perez said Peterson (34-3-1, 17 KOs), 32, of Washington, D.C., remains a possible opponent. Peterson has not fought since last October.Lamont Peterson is a former world champion, a great fighter and it would be a great fight but not a pay-per-view fight. But I think its a fight that could get done, Perez said, adding that even though Peterson is aligned with adviser Al Haymon it would not prevent a deal being made with Roc Nation Sports, which is owned by music star Jay Z, a longtime rival of Haymons.A far more intriguing bout would be against former welterweight and junior welterweight titleholder Timothy Bradley Jr. (33-2-1, 13 KOs), 33, of Palm Springs, California. Bradley has voiced interest in moving up to face Cotto.Thats one of the fights Tim would like before he is done with his career, Monica Bradley, his wife and manager told ESPN in August when he re-signed with promoter Top Rank.Said Perez: Bradley is a huge fight, a great fight to make. Its a great fight for the fans, a good style fight. Miguel is always willing to fight the best and if Bradley is there and available and we can agree on terms, we are more than happy to put them in the ring.That fight would entail Cottos camp co-promoting with Top Rank, which promoted Cotto for most of his career until he left to sign with Roc Nation Sports after saying he would never leave the company. It was a move that deeply disappointed Top Rank president Todd duBoef, who recruited Cotto out of the Olympics and grew very close to him through the years.We ended our business relationship with Top Rank but if theres a fight we can work on together we will work together, no problem, Perez said. We had a great relationship with Top Rank and we like and respect Bob [Arum] and Todd. I think Bradley would be a huge fight and a great fight.When asked for his view of the possible fight, duBoef was not overly enthusiastic and not anxious to go down that road. But he said he would acquiesce to his fighter.If its a fight that Tim Bradley and Monica want, I would discuss it, duBoef said.Regardless of when Cotto returns, at what weight and against which opponent, he will be back soon training with Hall of Famer Freddie Roach and looking for the biggest fight that can be made.This is the first time he had a layoff like this, Perez said. But at this point in his career its good for him. Hes been moving around in the gym to maintain his condition but its good for him to get the rest. But he is ready to fight again. NFL Jerseys Outlet . Anthony Calvillo, through 20 CFL seasons, was frequently invincible and largely stoic in the heat of competition. 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No West Indian cricketer of recent times-perhaps of all time-has evoked such starkly contrasting emotions as Carl Hooper.They either adored him or abhorred him. There was no in-between.They loved him for the God-given talent that allowed him to make the most technically complex of sports appear so gracefully simple.They condemned him for the wanton waste of such a gift, reflected in the final, modest statistics of a career that has now come to a sad and premature end with his sudden retirement.If batting was a beauty contest, Hooper would be Miss World, was how Malcolm Knox, of the Sydney Morning Herald, put it after one of his nine Test hundreds at Brisbane.Cricket has nothing so purely delightful as the sight of Lara and Hooper together, wrote EWSwanton after the pairs assault on Shane Warne and the Australians at Kensington four years ago. And Swanton, then into his late 80s, has seen them all, from Bradman, Hammond and Headley to the present generation.Indeed, only Frank Worrell and Lawrence Rowe of West Indian batsmen stroked a late cut quite so delicately and so precisely as Hooper. Few could match the elegance of his driving through mid-on and extra-cover.None could so effortlessly deposit the best of spinners beyond the boundary.He could have been a more effective off-spinner had he not spent most of his time aiming defensively at middle and leg, buying rest time for the fast bowlers. And there has never been a safer slip catcher, a difficult business that was, somehow, a piece of cake for him.Yet there was always the impression that Hooper seldom had his heart and soul in the game. Perhaps his demeanour heightened that perception.He is a quiet, introverted man, not prone to the wild on-field celebrations so common in modern times. He seldom smiled, rarely frowned.He acknowledged a key wicket or a sensational slip catch with the same understated reaction as a special hundred.It was more likely that his passion for the game that was his profession was sullied by the pressures it placed on him.On the ill-starred tour of England in 1995, he complained to manager Wes Hall of frustration and mental and physical tiredness and pleaded to end the tour after the Second Test. Hall responded by sending him for sessions with psychologist Mike Brearley, the former England captain.When a back injury kept him out of the 1994 home series against England, he was incensed with the Boards lack of attention and left the Caribbean stating: For now, my fitness comes first and Kent (his English county) second.Those words came back to haunt him time and again. To many they were prooff that he cared little for West Indies cricket.ddddddddddddIt was a notion he did not erase with his late withdrawal from the 1996 World Cup in India and Pakistan, his failure to play in the Hong Kong Sixes in 1997 when appointed captain and his reluctance to turn out for Guyana.Such judgement was harsh, if understandable.Appointed vice-captain to Brian Lara for last years home series against England, he played his greatest and most significant innings, an unbeaten 94 lasting almost six chanceless hours on a difficult pitch that snatched victory in the First Test.He ended with a hundred in Antigua, an average of just under 50 and 15 wickets, his best all-round series. He seemed to be ready for many more years as a key member of the West Indies side.What happened between then and the mini-World Cup in Bangladesh is impossible to know except that Hooper turned up several pounds heavier than is good for a professional cricketer.He had always had difficulty controlling his weight but no one worked harder at it than him. It was perhaps an indication that, like 1995, all was not well.On the tour of South Africa that followed, he often seemed distracted-but, then again, so did many others. He was subject to a few lazy run-outs. He took to standing still at mid-wicket and signalling, like a traffic policeman, to the man behind him to back up. It was unbecoming of someone who had been one of the games finest fielders in the position.The birth and subsequent illness of his son to his Australian wife in far-off Adelaide was a further complication and Hooper arrived in the Caribbean clearly mentally and physically unready for the demands of a series against opponents as tough as the Australians.He should never have come in such a state. His immobility made him the laughing stock of even his own countrymen at Bourda and the crowd atKensington Oval where he was more of a favourite than anywhere else in the Caribbean.To have heard the announcement of his overnight retirement greeted with cheers around Kensington on Sunday was the unkindest cut of all for a cricketer who had given so much pleasure-if also so much pain-to true lovers of the game.West Indies cricket will miss him for, whatever his faults, he was one of the best all-rounders at a time when the species is almost extinct.West Indies cricket fans will also miss him, whatever their persuasion. Who will they have to argue about now?Source :: The Trinidad Express (http://www.trinidad.net/express/) ' ' '