Miguel Rivera and Victor Gonzalez, notifight.com

WBC junior middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez (39-0-1, 29KOs) believes Floyd Mayweather Jr. selected Miguel Cotto as his May 5th opponent because the Puerto Rican veteran is "an easier" fight. Alvarez and Cotto were the two boxers being considered for Mayweather's next fight. Cotto, the WBA's champion, was Mayweather's final choice.

The event, which takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, will feature Alvarez in the co-feature against former three division world champion "Sugar' Shane Mosley. Alvarez hopes to face Mayweather in 2013.

"Mayweather has the power to decide [his opponents] and he can do it one day because right now he's sitting on the throne. He chose to fight with Cotto, because he believes that he has less speed, moves a lot less and perhaps because he hasn't been the same [fighter as he was in the past]," Canelo said.