Miguel Cotto: record, next fight and profile →
This weekend marks yet another pivotal time in the life of trainer Robert Garcia, who will be with his brother Mikey this weekend in Atlantic City as he faces off with Connecticut's Matt Remillard in an HBO showcase. The featherweight duel at the Boardwalk Hall will give some clarity as to just how real the potential of Garcia is and if successful, bigger bounty will be awaiting him.
WBO featherweight champion Juan Manuel Lopez says that he learned a valuable lesson by watching Miguel Cotto's recent knockout win over Ricardo Mayorga. He plans to apply his new education in the fight with Orlando Salido on April 16 in Bayamón. In the past, Lopez has made mistakes by chasing a knockout from the start of the first round. He saw how Cotto stayed calm, boxed from round to round and took the knockout in the twelfth.
The manager of New Jersey junior middleweight Pawel Wolak, Ivan Edwards, told BoxingScene.com that he would like to see his fighter face either middleweight contender, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., of Mexico, IBF king, Cornelius Bundrage, of Detroit, or WBA titlist Miguel Cotto, of Puerto Rico, in that order.
BoxingScene.com's Lem Saterfield reported earlier this week that former welterweight champion Kermit Cintron will appear on the undercard to the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito rematch that will most likely take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on July 16th.
In the month since his February 5, unanimous decision over Mexican southpaw, interim WBA titlist Rigoburto Alvarez before Alvarez's partisan fans at the Arena Colseo in Guadalajara, Mexico, southpaw junior middleweight Austin Trout spent time as the sparring partner for southpaw WBA "emeritus" middleweight king Sergio Martinez.
Before achieving his championship status, IBF junior middleweight champion Cornelius Bundrage had to navigate a long, treacherous road prior that has been comprised of as many starts and stops as might a packed street during rush hour in his native Detroit, Mich.
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is scheduling a meeting with Top Rank to discuss a possible rematch with Antonio Margarito on July 16. Ever since the incident in 2009, where illegal inserts were found in Margarito's handwraps before a scheduled fight with Shane Mosley, there has been doubts about the legit nature of Margarito's eleven round knockout of Cotto from 2008. Cotto says a lot of the bad blood is behind him and now he's looking to the future.
WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto knows the end of his career is closing in. He anticipates his career to continue for at least two years at most. Before his considers retirement, he would like to avenge the only two defeats on his record - to Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao. Margarito stopped Cotto in eleven rounds in 2008, and Pacquiao stopped the Puerto Rican star in the twelfth round of their 2009 bout.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum is very happy with the early buyrate figures for last Saturday's Showtime pay per view, which featured Miguel Cotto defending his WBA junior middleweight title against Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Cotto stopped Mayorga in the twelfth round to retain his 154-pound title. Arum has yet to obtain the full count, but he anticipates the generated buyrate figure to fall around 250,000, or possibly a bit more.
Top Rank's CEO, Bob Arum, is already working on the planned July 16 rematch between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29KOs) of Puerto Rico, and his Mexican rival Antonio Margartio (38-7, 27KOs). In 2008, Margarito handed Cotto the first loss of his career with a stoppage victory in the eleventh round.