Cotto-Margarito

By Dan Ambrose: Boxing legend Julio Cesar Chavez Sr. chimed in on his views for tonight’s huge fight between Antonio Margarito and WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. Chavez Sr. really likes the boxing skills of Cotto, but he sees Margarito as having too much heart, too much size and too much courage for Cotto [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito weighed in at a lean 152.5 pounds at Friday’s weigh-in. Margarito, who fights at his best when he’s really lean, looked like a track star ready to chase down a prize. WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto looked much softer in comparison at 152.25 lbs.

By William Mackay: Amir Khan chimed in on Saturday’s fight between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito, saying he thinks Cotto will win the fight by a decision.

By Dan Ambrose: Although it took a while, this Saturday’s grudge match between Antonio Margarito and WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is now officially sold out with all 17,943 tickets sold as of Thursday.

By Dan Ambrose: If we learned anything from watching Miguel Cotto in his previous fight against Antonio Margarito it’s that Cotto doesn’t have the size, the chin or the power to stand up and fight Margarito in a traditional war.

By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto’s former trainer Emanuel Steward sees Cotto as the more talented fighter this Saturday night in his revenge fight against Antonio Margarito. Steward points out that Cotto has the faster hands, and is the more talented fighter and will have a large Puerto Rican crowd behind him.

By Dan Ambrose: At the final press conference on Wedsneday, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto seemed to come unglued after listening to challenger Antonio Margarito tell him he hits like a girl and then mention how he doesn’t beat up his family members like Cotto.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito scored some major points during Wednesday’s final press conference with WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto after a heated exchange. Margarito said “Here comes the criminal; open the doors for the criminal.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito is promising a lot of pain and suffering for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto for Saturday’s fight. Margarito says he’s going to KO Cotto and leave him to the stretcher team to take him out of the ring. Normally when fighters say this you see it as empty words, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) and Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) are going to be really well paid for this pay per view bout on HBO this Saturday night. According to news from Dan Rafael of ESPN, the 31-year-old Cotto will get $5 million for Saturday’s rematch, while [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) has had to listen to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s whining and complaining for the past month about how he thinks Margarito loaded his hand wraps in their previous 2008 fight.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) wants revenge so bad he can taste it for what he perceived was Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) coming into the ring with plaster in his hand wraps and “Messing with” his health in their fight in July 2008.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) is sick and tired of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s constant remarks about how he thinks that Margarito beat him with plaster in his hand wraps the last time they fought back in 2008.

By Liam Brindle & Lee Demain: With the fight only 6 days away and having watched Cotto v Margarito 1 several times over the past 3 years there remains several questions marks beside both. The first point we would like to make is the start Miguel Cotto (36-0-2) made in the fight. He was able [...]

By Dan Ambrose: We already know what WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s excuse was for getting destroyed last time he fought Antonio Margarito three years ago. Cotto has made sure to let everyone know that he strongly suspects that Margarito fought him with plaster in his hand wraps in order to beat him in [...]

By Jason Kim: WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) plans for a quick return to the ring in either January or February 2012 to fight a tune-up bout on HBO to get ready for a big money fight against the winner of next months’ clash between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It was sad to see Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) choosing to take a couple of knees during the final bitter moments in his fight against Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) three years ago in a bloody 11th round TKO loss to the Mexican Tornado.

By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum wants to match up his fighters WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and WBO junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. I think that’s a really bad idea if you’re a Cotto fan. Whether he defeats Antonio Margarito or loses to him again when they meet up for their rematch on [...]

By Eric Thomas: If you look at some of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s recent interviews, he’s literally seething with anger towards his opponent Antonio Margarito, believing that he fought with loaded hand wraps in their fight three years ago.

By Dan Ambrose: I just got a laugh watching an interview of promoter Bob Arum talking about the surgically repaired right eye of his fighter Antonio Margarito. Arum claims that Margarito’s right eye is stronger now because of the recent surgery than it was before Margarito injured his eye.

By Dan Ambrose: Former IBF/WBA/WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) was given his boxing license by the New York Athletic Commission today after the commission met for an hour and forty-five minutes to make a determination on whether Margarito was medically fit to fight WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It seems that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is about to sabotage his December 3rd fight against Antonio Margarito by saying he’ll only fight Margarito in New York. I smell fear from Cotto.

By Saad T. Farooqi: La La Batalla II is a fight that is going to answer two looming questions. One, did Antonio Margarito really cheat against Miguel Cotto in their first fight? Second, it will serve as measuring stick in seeing how much these two warriors really have left in them? While the venue is [...]

By Dan Ambrose: On December 3rd, Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) and WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) are going to be getting it on in a still yet to be determined venue. However, it really doesn’t matter where the fight takes place, it will be happening on December 3rd and Cotto [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto has had things pretty easy since his last beating. His promoter Bob Arum has carefully guided Cotto since he was destroyed by Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao and has kept him away from dangerous threats of any kind. Arum has even helped Cotto pick up a [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Emanuel Steward is no longer the trainer for WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s), but Steward harbors no grudges. He still sees Cotto avenging his defeat to Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) on December 3rd at the Madison Square Garden, New York, New York. Cotto was destroyed by Margarito [...]

By Dan Ambrose: A lot of boxing fans have forgotten about the beatings that Miguel Cotto took in fights against Antonio Margarito, Shane Mosley, Joshua Clottey and Manny Pacquiao. That’s partly because Cotto’s promoter Bob Arum has kept Cotto protected as of late, putting him Miguel with the weak punching Yuri Foreman so that Cotto [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s been three years since Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) was massacred by Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s) in an 11th round TKO loss in July 2008. Cotto took a lot of punishment in that fight, enough to where he looked like one of the walking dead from the AMC television program [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Without even the first blow having been throwing, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is already digging a big hole for himself in his rematch with the bigger, stronger and arguably better conditioned Antonio Margarito on December 3rd at Madison Square Garden in New York.

By Dan Ambrose: The last time Miguel Cotto was taken out by Antonio Margarito, Cotto ran out of gas in the 10th and was battered until being stopped in the 11th.