By Mark Vester
WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto is taking his training to the next level for his July 26 clash with Antonio Margarito. With a month to go until fight time, Cotto is well below the regulated weight and his body is more cut than ever seen in the past.
Assistant trainer Miguel Diaz is very impressed with Cotto's progress for the fight.
"I believe that Miguel is more than advanced in his work. On Thursday, he had to weigh a maximum weight of 169-pounds and he is well under that limit," Diaz told Primera Hora. "Miguel is working very hard. I've never seen him so cut and show so much muscle definition with 30-days to go for a fight."
Diaz predicts that Cotto will knock Margarito out before the ninth-round. He doesn't see Margarito having the tools to win, but at the same time they view him as the biggest threat Cotto has ever faced.
"Margarito is not only strong but determined. Margarito is willing to die to win a fight. He is going to put everything on the line because he needs a defining fight in his career and for him - this is the defining fight," Diaz said. But Margarito does not have the ring intelligence, the offensive and defensive power of Cotto. We are very well aware that Margarito is a man where Miguel does not have the luxury of taking it easy for a single round round or backing off because Margarito will then get himself together."
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