WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) of Puerto Rico is well aware that in order to beat a boxer on the level of a Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs), he will need to be in the best physical and mental condition possible, and he needs to have a perfect strategic plan.
LOS ANGELES -The "Ring Kings: Mayweather vs. Cotto" pay-per-view card is set and some of the toughest competitors in boxing today will be featured when undefeated rising star Jessie Vargas faces-off against perennial contender Alfonso Gomez and, in the opening pay-per-view bout, exciting 154 lb. contender DeAndre "The Bull" Latimore takes on former World Champion Carlos "El Indio" Quintana. The two 10-round bouts will take place prior to the WBA Super Welterweight Championship between Floyd Mayweather and Miguel Cotto and the Canelo Alvarez vs. Sugar Shane Mosley WBC Super Welterweight title bout Saturday, May 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The event will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View® beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.
The hard training continues in Florida. WBA 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto (37-0, 30KOs) and his Cuban coach, Pedro Diaz, are putting together the "perfect strategy" to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs) on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. When he first started working with Cotto, Diaz explained to Carlos Gonzalez that Miguel had to get used to a much hard training schedule.
Having a conversation with trainer Roger Mayweather can certainly be a trying experience, as the outspoken former champion has a way of changing the discussion at any moment while also being a little hard to decipher because of his foul dialogue and sometimes-raspy voice.
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) says he is "ready to shock the world on May 5th" - when he defends his title against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs) at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Cotto is training in Florida with his his new coach, Pedro Diaz of Cuba. They are putting together a plan of attack to overcome Mayweather's very difficult style of boxing. Cotto first used Diaz for last December's stoppage of Antonio Margarito.
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) continues to train hard for his upcoming defense against pound-for-pound five division beltholder Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs). Cotto is training in Florida with his Cuban coach Pedro Diaz. The entire team hit the sands of Cocoa Beach to work under the warm weather. Mayweather-Cotto takes place on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. HBO pay-per-view will broadcast the fight. Photos by El Nuevo Dia/Juan A. Alicea. For video coverage, click here .
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is training to go to war with pound-for-pound five division beltholder Floyd Mayweather Jr. Cotto is training in Florida with his Cuban coach Pedro Diaz. Only a month remains before Mayweather and Cotto go head to head on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Photos by El Nuevo Dia/Juan A. Alicea.
Have a conversation with super middleweight contender Andre Dirrell and you can instantly spot the immense respect he has towards his friend and fellow prizefighter Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Former 2000 Sydney Olympian and former champion, Mexico's Daniel Ponce De Leon, will fight on the Floyd "Money" Mayweather Jr.-Miguel "Junito" Cotto undercard on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Ponce De Leon (42-4, 35 KOs) is training in Los Angeles, California.
Cuban trainer Pedro Luis Diaz was not impressed or intimidated by the recent sparring video which showed Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs) putting in a few rounds of work with Omar Henry. Diaz is training WBA 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto for a fight with Mayweather on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.