If Manny Pacquiao suffers a vicious cut in this weekend's fight he may look longingly towards the Miguel Cotto corner. No Pacman won't be begging for mercy but he may wish that trainer Freddie Roach kept his old buddy Joe Chavez around. It's not quite Floyd Mayweather Jr. switching camps but it is significant that the cutman, who has worked often with Roach's fighters is going to help Cotto in this fight.

He was a miracle worker for Cotto, when he suffered a huge gash over his left eye during a summer fight with Joshua Clottey. Cotto wasted no time is locking up Chavez for this fight.

"[Chavez] was very important to me in my win over Clottey," Cotto told Steve Carp from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He did a great job with my cuts in that fight, and that's why I wanted to bring him back for this fight."

Chavez is calm under the gun:

"I'm so comfortable when I'm working in the corner," Chavez said. "In that fight, my total focus was making sure I stopped the bleeding and kept the doctor from stopping the fight."

But before Chavez signed on for another assignment, he asked Roach if it was okay.

"Joe's a close friend, and it was a chance for him to make some money," said Roach. "Cotto's going to have one of the best cut men in the world working for him."

Let's hope Chavez's work isn't needed and both fighters get to perform without the distaction of a nasty cut. If there is one, we know from prior experience that Cotto is in good hands.