Cotto happy with new team

Miguel Cotto told Primera Hora (via BoxingScene.com) that training camp under new lead trainer Joe Santiago is going well, and he briefly discussed the situation with his ousted uncle/ex-trainer, Evangelista.

Cotto said he has not spoken with Evangelista since the physical altercation between the two that led to Evangelista going to the hospital, Cotto receiving a cut on his nose, and a brick going through the window of the fighter's Jaguar. Santiago has been with Team Cotto for a while, and was an easy replacement. Well, "easy" might not be the word, but it sounds like the transition has been pretty seamless.

Cotto (33-1, 27 KO) returned to the ring in February with a dominant stoppage of Michael Jennings, seven months after his now-debated loss to Antonio Margarito. His June 13 opponent, Joshua Clottey (35-2, 20 KO), has been out of the ring since beating Zab Judah by technical decision last August. He will have been out of the ring for 10 and a half months by the time fight night with Cotto at Madison Square Garden rolls around.

Cotto-Clottey is sort of flying under the radar right now as the boxing world focuses on Hatton-Pacquiao, plus the rumors surrounding Mayweather-Marquez and the great press brush-ups between Wladimir Klitschko and David Haye, but it's one of the biggest and best fights on the schedule right now. Should Pacquiao and Cotto win their upcoming fights, a lot of signs are pointing to Bob Arum matching his two best fighters (as it stands right now) against one another, perhaps in November.