By Miguel Rivera
Last week, Antonio Margarito demanded a trilogy fight with WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto.
Margarito plans to return to the sport in the coming months. Margarito has been retired since December of 2011.
In their first fight in 2008, Margarito stopped Cotto in the eleventh round. Cotto got revenge when he stopped Margarito in the ninth round of their rematch.
Between those two fights, illegal inserts were discovered in Margarito's hand wraps prior to a fight with Shane Mosley in January of 2010.
Since that incident, Cotto has been vocal that he believes Margarito loaded his gloves for their first meeting.
Margarito says Cotto contradicted himself after the second fight.
"I failed in the second fight because I chose the wrong strategy, not because of whatever he thinks or says. He only contradicts himself, because after the second fight he was asked about to compare my punching power between the two fights and he said there was no difference, it felt the same," Margarito told ESPN Deportes.
"So I bought in something illegal [to the first fight], as he says, then he would not have felt the same effect of the punches in the second fight. I think Cotto is a girl. He has fear, because everyone wants to see a third bout. Right now we each won one fight. I think he's afraid to face Antonio Margarito in a third fight to see who is the best."
Cotto will first defend his title against Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on November 21 from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
The Puerto Rican star has responded, stating that under no type of circumstances will he consider a trilogy fight with the former champion from Tijuana.
"Antonio Margarito can go to his grave asking for another fight, but that will never happen. We are not interested in knowing anything that Antonio Margarito says. At one point he came through our lives and now he is a thing of the past. We do not care about him and have no interest in discussing anything that he does. He doesn't deserve anything," Cotto told Rigo Cervantez.