By Mark Vester
Former two-division champion Miguel Cotto is looking forward to a potential rematch with Antonio Margarito. Bob Arum of Top Rank, who promotes both fighters, recently told Primera Hora that he plans to put together a televised doubleheader featuring Margarito and Cotto in early 2009. Arum says the fights will take place on the same day, but in different cities. Margarito would headline an event in Los Angeles and Cotto would be in the top spot of a card in Puerto Rico. If both fighters win, Arum would like to make a rematch in June, with the fight landing in New York, Las Vegas or Los Angeles.
Margarito's co-manager, Sergio Diaz, recently told BoxingScene.com that a June rematch with Cotto has been mentioned to them by Top Rank. Diaz made it clear that Margarito will take whatever route Top Rank lays out for him.
"Top Rank has a list of names. Tony will fight whoever Top Rank puts in front of him," Diaz said. "There was a mention of a possible rematch with Cotto next June. If that's the route Top Rank wants us to take, then that's the route we'll take."
Cotto says that if a rematch takes place next June, he will be ready to get revenge. Margarito handed the Puerto Rican star his first loss, stopping him in the eleventh-round of their July war in Las Vegas. Cotto said a rematch is logical with the way the first fight had lived up to the hype.
"I am very pleased and keen on the idea of a rematch. I know it still has to be signed, but it's something that was seen coming. The first fight was so exciting that it's somewhat logical," Cotto told Primera Hora. "There are just as many Mexicans as there are Boricuas who want the rematch and I'm positive they are going to see a true fight. This time I promise the result will be very different from the first fight. You don't lay down, you get up."
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