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It appears that a November 10 clash between WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (30-0, 25 KOs) and former three-division champion Shane Mosley (44-4, 37 KOs) is very close to being done. Top Rank and Golden Boy Promotions are working hard to hammer out a deal for the fight to take place. [details]
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dude that fight is going to be so sick man can't wait. -
This will be a firecracker...
Mosley vs. Cotto will be a good one.
Potential FOTY, but that's just my opinion.
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yea thats a hell of a fight
hopefully they put it in the garden, i would love to see that fightComment
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they should bring the 122 prospect juan manuel lopez on the undercards he's a sick fighter.
because the cotto-judah undercards they ****** really bad...the one that it was allright was pacquiao-soto.Comment
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If its Golden Boy it'll be in Vegas probably. Then again Arum might want it at MSG.Comment
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I seriously doubted this fight would've ever been made due to the Arum-GBP thing.Comment
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Coming this fall: Cotto-Mosley
The first product of the Top Rank-Golden Boy Promotions truce arrives Oct. 6, a rematch between Manny Pacquiao and Marco Antonio Barrera. But the encore is an even bigger and better fight: young gun welterweight titlist Miguel Cotto facing Sugar Shane Mosley.
Top Rank's Bob Arum and Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, who settled the numerous legal fights between the companies last month, are in the midst of hammering out a deal that will see Cotto (30-0, 25 KOs), the 26-year-old all-action Puerto Rican star, square off with longtime star Mosley (44-4, 37 KOs), who is 35 but fighting lately like a man 10 years younger.
The target date for the HBO PPV fight is Nov. 10 at New York's Madison Square Garden, where Cotto knocked out Zab Judah in the 11th round June 9 in front of a record crowd of 20,658. Arum and Schaefer met this week in Los Angeles to iron out their agreement.
"I met with Bob and we spent some time working on it," Schaefer told ESPN.com. "I discussed it with Shane and [wife] Jin and I am waiting to hear back from them. But Bob and I have basically worked out a deal which is now subject to the approval of Shane and Jin.
"We've worked pretty hard on getting it done and I hope it's going to happen. It's one of the best fights in the ring and it's two big names fighting each other. It's like [Golden Boy boss] Oscar [De La Hoya] says -- when you put two great fighters together, there is no loser. The sport of boxing and the fans are the winners."
Arum told ESPN.com: "We're getting very, very close. We're very enthusiastic that we will get it done. I think it will be a sensational fight. Shane is still a great fighter and Shane believes he can win. If you're building a real superstar like we are doing with Miguel, this is the kind of fight he must have like when we [Top Rank] put Oscar in with Ike Quartey and Pernell Whitaker. I think it could be the fight of the year. If Miguel didn't look as good as he did against Judah, we wouldn't consider making this fight. Shane is a hell of a fighter, an experienced guy, he's fast and he takes a great punch. A victory over Shane is not going to be easy."
Mosley's first choice to fight this fall was Floyd Mayweather Jr., but he is negotiating with Ricky Hatton instead, a fight Golden Boy appears likely to wind up promoting because of an option it is said to have on Mayweather following his May 5 victory against De La Hoya.
"Mayweather doesn't seem to want to fight me, so I'd love to fight Cotto," Mosley told ESPN.com. "I think it's an exciting fight. I hope we can get it done. I think the fans will love that one."
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I am starting to wank now.
Two of some of my favourite fighters are fighting, yay!Comment
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i hate it when two of favorites fight eachother. You fell bad either way! lol
Im not really a fan of either guy, but i LOVE watching both guys fight. I could care less whether they win or lose cause they produce action.
This fight is gonna be awsome, i cant wait to be back in that racous crowd.Comment
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