Miguel Cotto: record, next fight and profile →
If ever you were expecting to find someone excited about the May 5th Floyd Mayweather-Miguel Cotto clash in Las Vegas, HBO’s unofficial ringside judge Harold Lederman would be a great bet.
Freddie Roach, the trainer of Manny Pacquiao, gave his take on the scheduled junior middleweight fight between WBA champion Miguel Cotto and undefeated five-division beltholder Floyd Mayweather Jr. The battle between Cotto and Mayweather takes place on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Pacquiao had previously stopped Cotto in 2009, when they fought at a catch-weight of 145-pounds.
Floyd Mayweather Sr., the father and former trainer of WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs), spoke to BoxingScene.com about his son's upcoming fight with WBA junior middleweight king Miguel Cotto (37-0, 32KOs), which takes place on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
According to WBC President Jose Sulaiman, his organization is currently speaking with Golden Boy Promotions regarding the possibility of having the "Diamond Title" at stake on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas - when Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs) challenges Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) for the WBA's junior middleweight title. Two of the boxers to claim the WBC's "Diamond Title" include Manny Pacquiao and Sergio Martinez. Mayweather has previously held the WBC's full title at 154, which he captured in 2007, also on May 5th at the MGM Grand, with a twelve round split decision over Oscar De La Hoya.
IBF light-middleweight champion Cornelius Bundrage has announced that he is now a free agent after leaving promoter Don King and wants to negotiate a unification clash with WBC belt holder Saul "Canelo" Alvarez on the Floyd Mayweather vs. Miguel Cotto undercard, which is scheduled for May 5th in Las Vegas.
The trainer of WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao, Hall-of-Famer Freddie Roach, expects a big pay-per-view buyrate for the May 5th junior middleweight battle between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBA champion Miguel Cotto.
Pablo Sarmiento, the trainer for middleweight champion Sergio Martinez, doesn't give WBA junior middleweight king Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30KOs) any possible chance to pull off an upset on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, when he defends his title against Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs).
Gaby Penagaricano, the legal adviser to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, spoke to BoxingScene.com about the issue of weight - which in the end was breaking point in a possible rematch with Manny Pacquiao. On Wednesday, Floyd Mayweather Jr. officially announced that he was fighting Cotto on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
By Robert Morales - Miguel Cotto, for the first time in his pro career, will not be fighting under the Top Rank Inc. banner when he defends his junior middleweight title against Floyd Mayweather Jr. on May 5 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The fight was announced Wednesday by Mayweather when he was granted a one-fight conditional license by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. For those thinking Cotto's longtime promoter, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum, is peeved at Cotto for taking a fight that won't include him, think again. "No, no, I know where you're going with this," Arum said as the question was being asked. "Miguel lived up to every contractual provision that we had and we lived up to every contractual provision and the contract expired. There is no animosity. We're very fond of him." Arum was told that it was big of him to say that. "It's not big of me to say that," he said. "If the guy had violated a contract, I wouldn't be sounding like this. But he didn't."
The promotional tour for the mega-fight between Miguel Cotto, the junior middleweight champion of the WBA, and undefeated pound-for-pound boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., will begin in late February and finish up in the first week of March. The tour will impact the cities of Orlando, San Juan, New York and Los Angeles - without ruling out a visit to Mexico. The fight takes place on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.