Will experience be enough for World Boxing Council middleweight champion Miguel Cotto to keep his title against young Mexican challenger Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on Nov. 21 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas?

Boxing expert Jamie Moore thinks that although "Canelo" is about a decade younger than Cotto, the Puerto Rican boxer can beat the Mexican favorite, Sky Sports noted. Moore felt that it's actually Cotto's age and his longer and "higher level" boxing experience that makes him dangerous to put down.

Yet, former super welterweight titlist Austin Trout, who was beaten by "Canelo" in May 2013 in Texas via a unanimous decision, per BoxRec, gave his own take about the matter.

"It's going to be an exciting fight...I think Cotto, his experience is going to give him a big edge, but I don't know if it's going to be a big enough edge...'Canelo's' the first person to put me on the floor," Trout told Fight Hype.

Boxing Scene noted that "Team Canelo" claimed "skill, punching power and strength" as their edge over the veteran boxer. However, for Freddie Roach, the Mexican boxer, who only bowed to undefeated boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., has no advantages to his Puerto Rican fighter, even in the specific aspects the other camp has enumerated.

"Miguel is ready for this guy, he's in good shape. [Canelo] has no advantages. He's not a better puncher, he's not a better boxer. There is nothing that he does better than us, nothing," the world-class boxing trainer said.

Roach believes of Cotto's skills so much that he is even prepared to bet on his houses that his man will still be declared the WBC middleweight king after that fight, noted another Boxing Scene report.

Aside from Roach, Cotto is also not impressed of "Canelo," whom he even criticized as someone who "looked like a rookie" against Mayweather when they fought in September 2013, noted the same site, citing the boxer's interview with El Vocero.

However, Alvarez' trainer, Jose "Chepo" Reynoso, states that the boxing world will be amazed to see a "more mature" "Canelo" in the ring in November, Boxing Scene informed. Reynoso describes the new and improved "Canelo" to be a fighter with "more experience" and even "calculating." The boxing coach also shares that the work his fighter is currently at is "the best" that he has "ever seen." Everyone will just see his transformation during the exciting title fight, said the coach.

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