Mayorga: I'll Be 178 on Fight Night, PR Don't Want Cotto

By Rey Colon

Ricardo Mayorga was very well 'prepared' to make so many verbal bombs that he silenced Miguel Cotto, and said the WBA 154-pound champion was not wanted by Puerto Rico and Felix Trinidad was still considered the real boxing idol of the country despite being retired. Mayorga challenges Cotto for the title on March 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

"I think that Puerto Rico doesn't want him. He will never have the charisma or the talent of Trinidad, who was a star. Cotto does not have the charisma to be a star. He is not liked. Your own people do not want you. When Trinidad came, more than a million Puerto Ricans went to meet him to take pictures. When Cotto is coming, he is only greeted his manager and his family. He does not like it because he is not on the same level as that man and he never will be," Mayorga said in front of Cotto.

"After I knock him out on March 12, I intend to come to Puerto Rico to live here to be his nightmare. I'll get you on March 12. I'll knock you out. You're scared looking at my size. Listen to what I'm going to say, on the day of the weigh-in I'll be 153 pounds and on the day of the fight I'll be at 178. You will feel the impact of a man."

Rey Colon covers the boxing scene in Puerto Rico for Sport Press.