Though a December 3rd date has been announced for the highly anticipated rematch between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito both fighters camp are busy finalizing last minute details for the bout. Those final details revolve around how much each fighter will earn. What has been learned is Miguel Cotto will make around five to seven [...]
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Margarito vs. Cotto 2 Set For December 3rd
It seems Miguel Cotto will get his grudge rematch with Antonio Margarito. The targeted date? December 3rd in Cotto’s second home of New York City. The bout will be for Cotto’s junior middleweight title as Margarito is rumored to finally be cleared by a doctor to begin training and has already starting the first stages [...]
Cotto KO’s Gutsy Mayorga in 12th; Mayorga Announces Retirement
Miguel Cotto successfully defended his WBA super welterweight title with a dramatic twelfth round TKO win over gutsy brawler Ricardo Mayorga (0:53). The later was set up via a Cotto left hook that landed cleanly to the chin of Mayorga who wobbled to the canvas and oddly grabbed his left hand. Mayorga showed true fighting [...]
Cotto, Mayorga Make Weight
Showtime PPV will be putting on their first boxing PPV of the year as WBA super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto will defend his belt against the trash talking Ricardo Mayorga this Saturday, March 11th from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV. Full weights below: Miguel Cotto (154) vs. Ricardo Mayorga (154) Pawel Wolak (154) [...]
With An Ending On The Horizon, Cotto Aiming For Fitting Closing Stages
By Alex Mattis Miguel Angel Cotto is one of the most exciting boxers the past decade has seen. Skill, toughness, a willingness to brawl, and always a flare for the dramatic; Cotto has all the characteristics any boxing fan could want in a fighter. With an immeasurable heart and a destructive left-hook to the body, [...]
Cotto vs. Mayorga Final Press Conference Quotes
For a marquee pay-per-view affair entitled “Relentless,” Nicaraguan boxing superstar Ricardo Mayorga remains determined to live up to the event’s name with unyielding trash talk toward WBA Super Welterweight champion and the Pride of Puerto Rico, Miguel Cotto until the first bell of their championship matchup on Saturday, March 12 at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. [...]
Cotto And Mayorga Arrive In Vegas
Current WBA super welterweight world champion Miguel Cotto and two-division world champion and top trash talker Ricardo Mayorga arrived in Las Vegas Tuesday just days before their bout. Cotto will defend his title against the brash Nicaraguan fighter this Saturday, March 12, at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, NV live on Showtime PPV beginning at [...]
Showtime Announcers Predict Cotto vs. Mayorga
The veteran Showtime announcing crew has some words of advice and keys to victory for the world championship event between Cotto and Mayorga: Steve Albert: “Cotto needs to get inside Mayorga’s wide shots with compact, accurate punches. Cotto is one of the best short-distance punchers in the sport. He needs to jab and move and [...]
Mayorga “All The Puerto Ricans Coming To The Fight Will Leave As Ricardo Mayorga Fans”
The always colorful and electric Don King — joined by fellow Hall of Fame Promoter Bob Arum for their first co-promotion in more than five years — entertained the Los Angeles press corps on Monday as “Relentless: Cotto Vs. Mayorga” Fight Week kicked off with a press conference at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. “My fighter [...]
Showtime To Broadcast Cotto vs. Mayorga Weigh Ins
SHOWTIME Sports announced today that SHOWTIME EXTREME – the sports and action focused multiplex channel – will broadcast the live weigh-in and select fighter interviews from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Friday, March 11 at 6 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the West Coast) in anticipation of the March 12 SHOWTIME PPV “RELENTLESS” headlined [...]
One on One With The Fighting Rabbi: Yuri Foreman
We last saw Yuri Foreman valiantly take on Miguel Cotto in a losing effort to defend his WBA super welterweight title late last year. The fighting rabbi, who suffered a torn ACL has been quietly on his way back. He is slated to fight Pawel Wolack on March 12 from the MGM Grand in Las [...]
Training Snap Shot: Miguel Cotto
Current WBA Super Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto hits the heavy bag as media were invited to a private work out. Cotto, is preparing with Emmanuel Stewart for his title defense against the always entertaining two-division world champ Ricardo Mayorga. The two fighters go head to head on March 12, at the MGM Grand in Las [...]
Cotto/Mayorga Preview Show On Showtime
With their highly anticipated world championship confrontation less than one month away, boxing fans will get exclusive, behind-the-scenes access to the training camps and lives of boxing superstars Miguel Cotto and Ricardo Mayorga when “Relentless,” a 30-minute preview of the first major pay-per-view world championship boxing event of 2011, premieres tonight/Friday, Feb. 18, at 10 [...]
Top Rank Boxing Stars Give Super Bowl Picks
As they prepare for their own world title battles, multi-division world champions Miguel Cotto, Nonito Donaire, Ricardo Mayorga, and Fernando Montiel spoke from their training camps to give their predictions on Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV. Miguel Cotto: “The Steel Curtain of Pittsburgh will drop and close the show on the Green Bay Packers. I’m going [...]
Mayorga, Cotto speak on bout in New York
For the first time in five years, Hall of Fame promoters Bob Arum and Don King will join forces to present “Relentless” — the first major pay-per-view world championship boxing event of the season — featuring the Pride of Puerto Rico, Miguel Cotto defending his WBA super welterweight title against two-division world champion Ricardo “El [...]
Juan Manuel Marquez says Margarito looked like a Amateur against Pacquiao, could beat Cotto and Margarito
Fight Hub TV was on scene in Hollywood as Mexican Boxing Legend Juan Manuel Marquez held a media work out in preparation for his November 27th fight with Michael Katsidis at the MGM Grand. Marquez shared a great deal with our fight correspondent Marcos Villegas such as his views on his upcoming opponent Michael Katsidis. [...]
Chavez Jr. talks upcoming Alfonso Gomez fight, sparring Manny Pacquiao, Cotto and elite middleweights
This past Monday the 4th, Top Rank in association with Zanfer Promotions held a joint press conference announcing the December 4th fight between Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Alfonso Gomez. The son of Mexico’s most popular boxer has had his fair share of criticism, from being called flat out boring to being accused of cherry [...]
Shane Mosley Talks To Fight Hub TV about Mora, Pac/Marg and Ko’ing Cotto in rematch
Fight Hub TV caught up with Shane Mosley as he told us about what is left to prove for him in his fight with Sergio Mora. He also thinks that Antonio Margarito has the best chin than anyone Pacquiao has fought as well as saying that he would look for the KO in a Cotto [...]
Make Berto vs. Cotto Happen!
By Brad Young iamus21@hotmail.com Miguel Cotto 35-2 (28 KO) vs. Andre Berto 26-0 (20 KO) Perhaps promoters have been reading my mind or maybe…just maybe…one fight the people would love to see will happen this year. Undefeated Andre Berto 26-0 (20 KO) and his camp are looking for a Fall 2010 bout after negotiations failed [...]