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By T.K. Stewart - NEW YORK – Frank Sinatra said if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Tomorrow night against Miguel Cotto inside the ring at Madison Square Garden, Joshua Clottey gets his chance to make it.
In this melting pot of a city that is filled with equal parts of ego and ambition, Clottey via Accra, Ghana via the Bronx is putting everything he has fought for over the past 14 years on the line. He will do so against Cotto, arguably the world's best welterweight.
Clottey will have to overcome long odds, an arena that will be filled to the rafters with Cotto supporters and the lingering doubt of those in the know that think he may come up empty handed when he makes the big grab for the brass ring.
To be clear, the night is all about Miguel Cotto. His appearances in the big room at the Garden on the eve of the city's annual Puerto Rican Day Parade are designed as a showcase. It is Cotto that has fought here in the main event five times and five times he has come up a winner. With a record of 33-1, 27 knockouts and with the only loss coming last summer at the tainted hands of Antonio Margarito, Cotto is on the precipice of mega-fights against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. [details]
In this melting pot of a city that is filled with equal parts of ego and ambition, Clottey via Accra, Ghana via the Bronx is putting everything he has fought for over the past 14 years on the line. He will do so against Cotto, arguably the world's best welterweight.
Clottey will have to overcome long odds, an arena that will be filled to the rafters with Cotto supporters and the lingering doubt of those in the know that think he may come up empty handed when he makes the big grab for the brass ring.
To be clear, the night is all about Miguel Cotto. His appearances in the big room at the Garden on the eve of the city's annual Puerto Rican Day Parade are designed as a showcase. It is Cotto that has fought here in the main event five times and five times he has come up a winner. With a record of 33-1, 27 knockouts and with the only loss coming last summer at the tainted hands of Antonio Margarito, Cotto is on the precipice of mega-fights against Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, Jr. [details]
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