Miguel Cotto: record, next fight and profile →
Oscar Collazo speaks ahead of his latest world title defense as the unified minimumweight champion discusses his undisputed ambitions, future weight jumps, potential fights with Kenshiro Teraji and Ricardo Sandoval, the rise of the lower weight classes, and the financial advice he's received from Miguel Cotto.
With Carlos Adames defending his WBC middleweight title this Saturday, Eric Raskin takes the opportunity to rank the 10 best middleweight champions of the 21st century.
In the fighter category, Miguel Cotto, Ray Mancini, Zab Judah, Charles Williams, Orlando Canizales, Jacqui Frazier-Lyde, Harold Knight and Mike Tinley have all received the call.
The Mexican light heavyweight Yair “Manotas” Gallardo has signed a co-promotional agreement with Golden Boy Promotions and Miguel Cotto Promotions.
Seventeen years ago this weekend, it was a fight that turned one way and then, definitively and with crushing finality, the other. The repercussions were prodigious.
Former ringside judge Tom Schreck says that although CompuBox is useful and can enhance the fan experience, it should never be employed or treated as a scoring system.
Every boxer who enters the ring puts their health, if not their life, on the line — though boxing fans often reserve the title of “warrior” for only a select few prizefighters. “I’m a warrior,” Andre Ward once said, offering a logical alternative perspective. “But people only give the ‘warrior’ tag if you get cut every other fight or you’re in a Fight of the Year candidate every other fight.” He has a point. “Warrior” is a badge of courage that all boxers proudly wear to commemorate them risking their health and safety to entertain fans of the sport. But not all badges are the same size. Ward earned his badge by consistently fighting quality opposition. Other fighters earn their badge by fighting through injury.
Respect must be given, not just for his success in bare knuckle boxing, but for the fact that Austin Trout is still learning, still seeking knowledge and still wanting to be the best in the world at an age when most have called it a day.
All Star Boxing is set to return to Puerto Rico, teaming up with Miguel Cotto Promotions and H2 Entertainment to host a live event at Coliseo Marcelo Trujillo in Humacao.