Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto to be televised by HBO PPV on May 5th
February 16th, 2012
By Dan Ambrose: If you already have HBO then you might be pleased to learn that the Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26 KO’s) vs. Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) mega fight will be televised on HBO pay-per-view. It’s still unknown what the price will be but my guess it will no less than $54.99, but hopefully not higher than that.
Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum has kept Cotto winning by putting him in against 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga, Yuri Foreman with a jacked up right leg that he came into the fight with Cotto with, and Antonio Margarito coming off not one but three separate eye surgeries on his right eye.
It’s almost as if Arum has been digging up Cotto’s opponents from the hospital ward or an old folk’s home since his loss to Manny Pacquiao. For this reason, I think it takes a lot of the excitement out of the Cotto-Mayweather fight because Cotto has been matched so carefully by Arum to the point it’s kept him from accomplishing anything.
I frankly don’t care whether the fight is televised on HBO or Showtime, because I got both of them. But I can see how it would be a major inconvenience if you have Showtime and then you’re kind of in a predicament to have to purchase HBO.
Cotto is going to get blown out in this fight, and that’s pretty much the straight honest truth. As bad off as Cotto’s last three opponents have been, he looked vulnerable in parts of each of those fights.
Mayorga was hanging Cotto a new backside early on until Cotto started running and was able to box until stopping an exhausted and desperate Mayorga in the 12th. Foreman started out slowly but was giving Cotto all kinds of problems until his bad right knee gave out from under him in the 7th.
Cotto was then able to dominate a badly limping Foreman in the 9th. Margarito really should have not been facing a fighter like Cotto coming off those eye surgeries. Margarito needed more time and at least two or three tune-ups instead of facing a tough opponent like Cotto.
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u wil miss a great fight to bad.
No matter who Mayweather fights, his haters will always say that he is going to lose. I’m not a Pacquiao fan, but as a boxing fan am not so stupid that I cannot be realistic. Pacquiao is going to beat Bradley. Why else would Arum buy Bradley into the Top Rank stable. To lose. Keep it real.
Manny The Clown
Floyd will walk through Cotto. Any real fan knows this…
…and everyone knows what is going to happen, Cotto is going to take his head off and break his chest.
Manny The Clown says:
February 17, 2012 at 1:51 pm
@Hum, if he is a leftover, then why didn’t your idol fight the man at 154?
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No point for Pacquiao in fighting him at any weight. He’s done. Cotto looks like an amateur when he fought Pacquiao. Bradley is a better option because he’s undefeated with sharp head. There are 3 things Pacquiao has to watch. Bradley’s two hands and the head. It’s a more challenge for Pacquiao. Cotto is no challenge at all. lol. bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Thank God that the fight is useless. All the big discussions on this site are over Cotto vs Mayweather. (see the numbers of comments)
Please, all that talk trash about this fight will be the first to buy it.
im not buying it this is garbage fight leftover vs coward not worth anything
Floyd will walk through Cotto. Any real fan knows this…
Not interested in this fight so is most of NYC. A lot bars here in Manhattan aren’t even having a showing in this fight.
@Hum, if he is a leftover, then why didn’t your idol fight the man at 154?
If anybody doesn’t want to see it, don’t buy it. Simple as that. Same can be said for the Pacquiao/Bradley fight. It’s obvious that some comments have deviated from the topic of discussion and true prejudices are beginning to surface. Don’t use Mayweather and Pacquiao as an excuse to hide behind the true feelings living on the inside of your heart.
Cotto is Pacquiao’s left over with a nursing home candidates undercard, Shame and Winky. Why bother watching? This whole fight on May 5 is a joke. lol
Only a fool will buy this!
pacman…yesterday a nobody…now a name…TOMORROW A LEGEND.
fraud maynever……..WHO CARES?
who cares?
who cares for this fight
Does this writer have anything new to write.he has been saying the same thing about cotto in avery article he puts out,and also you don’t need HBO or Showtime in order to see the figjt,is pay per view stupid,this shows how big of an idiot he really is
Mexicans would buy this canelo is on this card he has a good following numbers will be good.. canr wait for 24/7
As a purest boxing fan I would pay for it although I don’t know if it’s gona be paper view in the UK.
Lol @ nate give them a brake
U dont have to buy a channel to watch a PAY-PER-VIEW genius!!
Me neither!!
I wonder who is going to pay for that.I won’t pay a penny
Ill buy this fight because i like both fighters, they fight the best. Cant say the same about pacquiao and tim bradley is an uncle tom, im boycotting top rank for making a bull excuse about a stadium they started building……whaat happened to the STADIUM?!
@ California Boy..
I will do just that. There’s a lot of bars here in San Jose gonna show that fight.
you do not need subscription to either hbo or showtime to buy their ppv’s, PPV’s are kind of an on demand service not a subscription service!!!!!!!!
If your really smart;
On the day of the fight…you’ll take your $50
And go to a bar. Spend $30 on beer,and $20
On a nice meal at Dennys after the fight.
I ain’t putting a nickel in mayweather’s pockets!
Noway this will happen, So many idiots given Cotto a chance = pay per views buys noway this fight will be on HBO
I see that Dan can not wait to buy the fight.
expect cheaper PPV.
Im really suprised at the cost to view fights over there, in New Zealand it only cost me $39.00 NZD to watch the Margaritto Cotto fight thats about $25 American….. dont get it….
That won’t hurt neither one of them.
@churbg…. U ordered the h.d. Version that’s why it was so high…. The hd is 10 dollers or.more higher….
Ordered the cotto vs Margartio fight it was 69.95 but by the time your local cable company adds handling fees it ends up being $91!! To much for these fights! No wonder MMA is taking over.
Lol now he’s saying Margarito shouldn’t have fought him when his original posts said he was going to stop him like the first fight.
Will be 59.99 or 69.99 like floyd vs ortiz…will make grea numbers…
Not buying it.