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Former world champion Miguel Cotto congratulated his colleague, featherweight contender Orlando 'The Phenomenon' Cruz, for publicly announcing that he is gay. When they were amateurs, Cotto and Cruz represented Puerto Rico side by side. Cotto, recognized as the biggest boxing attraction in the country, voiced his support for Cruz.
Three division world champion Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30KOs) has finished up the Puerto Rico portion of his training camp and leaves for the high altitude of Big Bear, California tomorrow. Big Bear will serve as the second installment of Cotto's training camp for his December 1st fight against WBA super welterweight champion Austin Trout. The fight will be televised by Showtime. As previously reported on BoxingScene, Cotto's trainer Pedro Diaz wants the Puerto Rican to improve his stamina by holding part of his training camp in a high altitude setting. After training in Big Bear Cotto will finish up his training camp in Florida.
WBC middleweight champion Sergio Martinez (50-2-2, 28KOs) does not expect to secure a fight with Saul "Canelo" Alvarez, the undefeated WBC champion at 154-pounds. Martinez, coming off a dominating performance against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., wants to return in late April or early May of next year. He would like to fight Canelo and then stage a fall rematch with Chavez Jr. To make the fight happen, Martinez is willing to move down to 154-pounds, but he doesn't expect Canelo to accept the challenge.
Gaby Peñagarícano, the legal adviser to former three division world champion Miguel Cotto, informed BoxingScene.com that tickets for his boxer's upcoming fight are selling at a very rapid pace. Cotto is challenging undefeated Austin Trout (25-0, 14KOs) for the WBA "regular" junior middleweight title on December 1st at New York's Madison Square Garden. Showtime will televise. The event is being promoted by Cotto Promotions and Golden Boy Promotions.
WBA junior middleweight champion Austin Trout (25-0, 14KOs) is expecting that his size and reach advantage will make a difference in his fight with Puerto Rican superstar Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30KOs) on December 1st at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pedro Diaz, the Cuban trainer of Cotto, is not worried about Trout's advantages. He will train Cotto for two weeks in Puerto Rico, before heading to Big bear in California and then head to Florida.
NEW YORK — Stephen Espinoza expects Austin Trout to test Miguel Cotto. The potential prize for Showtime Sports is to match Cotto against Mexican star Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, but Espinoza knows the popular Puerto Rican star isn’t in for an easy night Dec. 1 at Madison Square Garden. Showtime’s executive vice president of sports and event programming projected a much more competitive fight than envisioned by many of the vocal Cotto supporters who attended a public press conference to promote the fight Monday afternoon at the El Museo Del Barrio in Manhattan.
Four-Time and Three-Division World Champion Miguel Cotto and WBA Super Welterweight World Champion Austin Trout arrived in Puetro Rico for the second leg of their tour, as they announced their Dec. 1 world championship showdown at Madison Square Garden, which will be televised live on SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING. One of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world, Cotto (37-3, 30 KO's), of Caguas, Puerto Rico, has held a world title every year since 2004 while winning 16 of the 19 world championship bouts in which he has fought. Puerto Rico's most exciting fighter and one of its greatest of all time, Cotto has fought some of the most talented fighters in boxing, including Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao, Shane Mosley and Antonio Margarito.
Austin Trout’s next title defense – a December 1 showdown with former three-division champ Miguel Cotto – comes with a now-completed two city tour. Neither one of them were anywhere closes to his hometown of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Of course, the stops in New York City and Caguas, Puerto Rico make sense. The fight will take place at Madison Square Garden, where Cotto has headlined on seven previous occasions. Wednesday’s press stop in Caguas was in honor of Cotto and the Puerto Rican pride brought out in his fights for the past dozen or so years, or at least as long as his name has appeared in the marquee in any given event.
With a potential super-fight at stake for 2013, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya admits he is nervous about Miguel Cotto's upcoming challenge of WBA "regular" junior middleweight champion Austin Trout. De La Hoya is already mulling a mouth-watering clash between Cotto and WBC champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez for next year's Cinco De Mayo weekend. A loss by Cotto would split those plans in two. Trout, even with a victory over Cotto, would not generate close to the same amount of money as a match between Cotto and Canelo. For that reason, De La Hoya doesn't like the danger involved with Cotto taking on a hungry, undefeated champion.
Francisco Guzman catches up with WBA "regular" champion Austin Trout to discuss his upcoming fight with former three division world champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico.