And, ultimately, Cook would like to follow in the footsteps of Manchester's Ricky Hatton, who wowed American fans with his demolition of Jose Luis Castillo in Las Vegas last month.
"I watched the Ricky Hatton-Jose Luis Castillo fight and I was thinking, 'That's the way it's going to be for my fight against Nicky Cook', " the Los Angeles-born fighter told BBC Sport.
CNN's Mariano Castillo in Atlanta, Rey Rodriguez in Mexico City, Jose Manuel Rodriguez in Buenos Aires and Juan Carlos Lopez in Washington contributed to this report.