Cotto vs. Margarito

By Dan Ambrose: Due to the controversy of the New York doctor stopping the fight just when Antonio Margarito was starting to take command of the fight, I think WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto needs to do the right thing and give Margarito a rematch so the two fighters can settle the matter once [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) isn’t ready to retire after losing a 10th round stoppage loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto recently, and feels that he’s still got a few big fights left him before he hangs up the gloves.

By Dan Ambrose: With WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s recent 10th round stoppage win over Antonio Margarito, which drew a reported 600,000 pay per view buys on HBO, Cotto has cemented himself as boxing’s third best PPV performance behind Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

By Chip Mitchell: My colleague Robert Uzzell and I recently attended three major fight cards on the east coast. The events just so happened to take place on back-to-back-to-back weekends. Hey, who says all the good fights land in Vegas? As gas prices soared to about $3.80 per gallon, we wondered if Greyhound or even [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Before World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) defeated Antonio Margarito earlier this month by a 10th round doctor’s stoppage, EPSN analyst and trainer Teddy Atlas believed that the 31-year old Cotto was damaged goods from the beatings he took in his loss to Margarito in 2008 [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Referee Steve Smoger wished that Antonio Margarito had been allowed to come out for the 10th round in his recent loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. Smoger said he wanted to let him, but the ringside doctor stepped in and halted the fight due to Margarito’s rapidly closing right eye.

By Gerardo Granados: Miguel Cotto is a three division champion and has engaged against fifteen champions during his long boxing career, he is trully skilled but his size is not the ideal for the middleweight division. The former World Boxing Organization (WBO) light welterweight, WBA World – WBO welterweight & current WBA World light middleweight [...]

By Dan Ambrose: After seeing the Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito fight last night for the second time, I’m now even more convinced that Cotto was saved by the referee stepping in and halting the fight after the 9th round last week to prevent Cotto from being knocked out for a second time against the [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): Trainer Robert Garcia had no illusions when his fighter former WBA/WBO/IBF welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) took on WBA super light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) last Saturday night. Garcia knew that Cotto would make adjustments after his humiliating loss to Antonio in July 2008. He [...]

By Ricky Colon Fernandez: Super welterweight champion Miguel Angel Cotto has resurrected for the second time in 3 years, something that many fighters can never do, even the greatest of all times. Cotto has been criticized by many boxing writers even when he was undefeated and was plowing his way thru the ranks. Many say [...]

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By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito feels that he could have kept fighting against WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto if he was allowed to come out for the 10th. Unfortunately, Margarito was never given the chance because the ringside doctor stepped in and prevented Margarito from finishing the last three rounds of the fight. This [...]

By Jason Kim: With his 10th round TKO loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto last weekend, 33-year-old Antonio Margarito has now lost three out of his last four fights dating back to 2009.

Maybe it was his voice, his attitude, or the outspoken tendencies of the late sportscaster Howard Cosell, but there always was energy in the fights he announced. He announced many historic matches and today’s generation deserves that same energy. History was made in Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, not only for Philadelphia, but for [...]

By John F. McKenna (McJack): To the surprise of many boxing observers WBA light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) was a changed fighter against former WBA/WBO/IBF welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) Saturday night.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto’s uncle/ex-trainer Evangelista Cotto reportedly wants Cotto to step up and face WBC middleweight champion Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. (44-0-1, 31 KO’s) next in order for Cotto to try and make history by winning a 4th division world title.

By Dan Ambrose: I’m still really disgusted that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto didn’t have points taken off for his use of his head against Antonio Margarito last Saturday night. All night long Cotto was ramming into poor Margarito like a little billy goat.

By Allen Fox: Antonio Margarito’s eye problems continued in his loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto last weekend with Margarito sustaining a cut on right eye that required 12 stitches to close after the fight.

By Chris Williams: Now that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto has finally avenged his earlier defeat at the hands of Antonio Margarito by stopping him this past weekend by a 10th round TKO, Top Rank is going to have to start looking or Cotto’s next opponent for early 2012.

By Dan Ambrose: Having just lost to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto by a ringside doctor’s stoppage at the start of the 10th round last Saturday night, Antonio Margarito reportedly wants to fight Cotto for a third time to prove who the best fighter is between the two of them, only this time the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto is still under the impression that Antonio Margarito beat him with the aid of plaster in his hand wraps in their first fight in 2008 despite their being no proof whatsoever that Margarito did that.

By John F. McKenna (McJack): In what must have been the most satisfying win of his career, World Boxing Association (WBA) super light middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (37-2, 30 KO’s) scored a one sided 10 round TKO over former WBC super welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KO’s) Saturday night at Madison Square Garden.

By Kasim Aslam: World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto defeated fierce rival Antonito Margarito in an almost punch perfect fight. A rejuvenated and focused Cotto out boxed his opponent with a clever and patient display to regain his championship while dishing out revenge.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito feels that he was cheated by the stoppage by the ringside doctor in the 10th round tonight against World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto. The doctor halted the fight due to the swelling in Margarito’s right eye.

By Dan Ambrose: Antonio Margarito wasn’t pleased with the ringside doctor stopping the fight at the start of the 10th round tonight against WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden, New York. Margarito’s right eye had pretty much closed by that point in the fight and the doctor didn’t want to take [...]

By Eric Thomas: In a fight that failed to live up to all of the hype that was previously generated about it, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 Ko’s) easily out-boxed a painfully slow Antonio Margarito (38-7, 27 KO’s), hitting, moving and grabbing until the fight was halted by the ring doctor at [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto blames his miserable performance against Antonio Margarito last time they fought on what he believes Margarito having plaster in his wraps. Despite having no proof that Margarito had loaded hand wraps, Cotto has stuck to the belief that Margarito beat him with plaster in his wraps.

By Allen Fox: Trainer Roger Mayweather isn’t impressed with the skills of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, and doesn’t know how much he’s got left after taking a bad beating from Antonio Margarito three years ago. However, Roger believes that in order for Miguel to win tonight, he’s going to have to pressure Margarito [...]

By Dan Ambrose: There is more to tonight’s fight than just the outcome of who wins and loses in the Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II grudge match, there is also Cotto’s legacy that will be largely defined by how he does in this fight. Although Cotto is a huge hero back home in Peurto [...]

By Allen Fox: Both Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito are expected to weigh slightly over 160 pounds by the time they step inside the ring tonight at Madison Square Garden in New York for their grudge match. While some boxing fans may immediately dismiss the weight and see it as a meaningless statistic, you have [...]