Cotto vs. Jennings

NEW YORK, NY (January 19, 2011) – You would think at age 79 and with approximately 80 years of promotional experience between them they have done it all, but Hall of Fame promoters Bob Arum and Don King have never conducted a joint network television interview — until today!

By Manuel Perez: Undefeated light middleweight contender Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (38-0, 29 KOs) will face unbeaten Argentinean Luciano Leonel Cuello (23-0, 10 KOs) on March 28th in Tijuana, Baja California, for the vacant WBO Latino light middleweight title. Chavez, 23, is making a slightly bigger step up from some of the softer opponents that [...]

By Dave Lahr: I’m still trying to figure out what either Miguel Cotto and Kelly Pavlik accomplished this past weekend in beating the poor opposition that they were put in with. 10 years ago, names like Marco Antonio Rubio and Michael Jennings would have never been in the position to challenge for a title against [...]

By Michael Lieberman: After watching Michael Jennings (34-2, 16) get destroyed by Miguel Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs) last night in the 5th round at Madison Square Garden, the big question is should Jennings hang up the gloves? Jennings says he won’t retire, saying “”I want to keep going and fight for different things, whether it [...]

By Scott Gilfoid: Predictably, Miguel (33-1, 27 KOs) made a mess of Michael Jennings’ (34-2, 16) farfetched dream of winning the vacant WBO welterweight title by wiping him out in a 5th round knockout. Jennings tried the best he could but he had no weapons to use against the powerful shots from Cotto. Whereas Cotto [...]

by William Mackay: Former welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs) recaptured a title on Saturday night in defeating Michael Jennings (34-2, 16 KOs) by a 5th round TKO to capture the vacant WBO welterweight title at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Jennings, fighting for his first time out of the UK, was much weaker [...]

By Michael Lieberman: Oh, I hate to gloat over this but I knew Michael Jennings (34-2, 16 KOs) was going to get his backside handed to him the moment this fight was signed for. Maybe it would have been a good fight if Miguel Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs) was fighting with a handicap, let’s say [...]

By Manuel Perez: Miguel Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs) stopped a badly overmatched Michael Jennings (34-2, 16 KOs) late in the 5th on Saturday night to capture the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York. Cotto, 28, knocked Jennings down three times in the fight, twice [...]

By Sam Gregory: Both fighters started out relatively slow in the first round but picked up the pace in the second; Cotto landed the cleaner more aggressive punches and won the early rounds. In the third round Cotto had Jennings on the ropes and snapped his head back with a straight right hand. By the [...]

By Nate Anderson: According to Steve Bunce from his Boxing Hour show, Miguel Cotto is looking weight drained for his fight tomorrow night with Michael Jennings. The fact that Cotto is weight drained seems to suggest that he’s had to struggle a little more than usual in making the 147 pound welterweight weight limit. That’s [...]

By Dave Lahr: Welterweight Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) makes his comeback on Saturday against unknown British challenger Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) at Madison Square Garden for the vacant WBO welterweight strap. Jennings, 31, travelling all the way from England to make this fight, will be facing a tough pro Cotto audience filled with [...]

By Manuel Perez: If Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) gets by Michael Jennings (46-5, 39 KOs) this Saturday night at the Madison Square Garden, in New York, New York, the one fighter that Cotto probably won’t be facing is WBA welterweight champion Shane Mosley. In the recent conference call interview with Cotto and his promoter [...]

Bob Arum: We have Miguel Cotto on the line. He is fighting for the vacant WBO welterweight championship on Saturday, February 21st. On the same card will be a fight between John Duddy and Matt Vanda.

World Middleweight Champion KELLY “The Ghost” PAVLIK (34-1, 30 KOs), from Youngstown, Ohio, is in his last 10 days of training for his rumble with No. 1 contender and mandatory challenger Marco Antonio Rubio (43-4-1, 38 KOs), of Torreón, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico. The Pavlik-Rubio world championship fight will headline an exciting card at soldout [...]

Welterweight hot-shot Kell Brook is backing Michael Jennings to beat Miguel Cotto on February 21 – so he set up a huge all-British showdown with his rival. Jennings will face Cotto in Madison Square Garden in New York on February 21 for the vacant WBO World title, and Brook will be keeping a close eye [...]

By Manuel Perez: A fighter is always at their weakest point following a bad knockout loss. That is never more true in the case of welterweight Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs), who was taken out in the 11th round last July in a brutal war with Antonio Margarito. The bout left Cotto a bloody and [...]

By Jim Dower: Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) will be stepping back in the ring on February 21st against Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) in a 12-round bout for the vacant WBO title at Madison Square Garden, in New York. Jennings, 31, is getting a big opportunity in being pitted against a fighter as good [...]

By Eric Thomas: In an article in the Lancashire Telegraph, welterweight Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) discusses how he injured his ankle while training for his February 21st bout with Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) for the vacant WBO welterweight title, saying that he couldn’t run or skip and that he was in pain.

By Matt Stein: Seeking the path of least resistance, former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) will be facing Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 KOs) for the vacant WBO welterweight title on February 21st at the Boardwalk Hall, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. For Cotto, 28, who was stopped in the 11th [...]

By Chris Williams: Although former World Boxing Association welterweight champion Miguel Cotto (32-1, 26 KOs) might much prefer to go right into a title fight against WBO champion Paul Williams, unfortunately Cotto will have to take a brief detour along the way with a WBO title eliminator match against #2 ranked Michael Jennings (34-1, 16 [...]