Cotto vs. Mayorga

By Dan Ambrose: When promoters plan out fights they sometimes overlook opponents due to their age. I believe this is the case for the March 12th fight between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and 37-year-old Ricardo Mayorga. Bob Arum, Cotto’s promoter, obviously sees Mayorga’s age and believes that because he’s the older fighter that [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) probably has no business fighting in the junior middleweight division, because at only 5’7″, he’s little more than the typical height for lightweights. He’s been able to get by at welterweight because the division has been so weak in the past few years, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) has lost two out of his last five fights, and you can make a good argument that Cotto should have lost three out of his last fight bouts, because one of his victories was a questionable 12 round decision over Joshua Clottey in [...]

By Jason Kim: Promoter Don King is looking to setup his fighter two-time world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 Ko’s) with a fight against Manny Pacquiao next if the 37-year-old Mayorga can beat WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit Chris Farina/Top Rank – WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) plans on trying to box 37-year-old challenger Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) on March 12th instead of going to war with him and risking suffering a cut or potentially a knockout loss when they go at it [...]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., (Feb. 22, 2011) – World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight champion Miguel Cotto and his Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward met with the South Florida media on Tuesday to talk about the Pride of Puerto Rico’s upcoming matchup with two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga, which will take place on Saturday, March 12, [...]

By Dan Ambrose: In less than three weeks, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will be facing his moment of truth in his tough match-up with former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) has been through a lot of wars in the past four years, and he’s taken too much punishment for his own good. His promoter Bob Arum has been doing his best to keep Cotto winning, but it’s getting harder because he doesn’t seem [...]

By Dan Ambrose: It’s fair to say that Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) dodged a bullet in his last fight when WBA junior middleweight champion Yuri Foreman’s right knee gave out on him in the 7th round right when he was teeing off on Cotto and the fight was pretty much even. Had that injury [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) isn’t impressed in the least with his next opponent WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), who Mayorga will be fighting on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The 37-year-old Mayorga is seven years older than [...]

By Dan Ambrose: I’m going to go out on the limb and make a prediction that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will lose and lose badly to 37-year-old Ricardo Mayorga next month if Cotto gets cut at any point in the fight. It doesn’t matter how the cut occurs. Cotto will lose just the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA Super World junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is facing what in practical purposes figures to be a tune-up fight on March 12th against 37-yer-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) in their fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight is supposed to be a safe [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) is licking his chops at the prospects of facing Manny Pacquiao for a huge payday in 2011 if Mayorga can get by WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

The always intriguing “Bad Boy” of boxing Ricardo Mayorga from Nicaragua will serve as a special guest on “Noche de Boxeo” Radio live Monday, February 7, 2011 at 5:00pm PST / 8:00pm ET / 7:00pm Mexico / 9:00pm Puerto Rico.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miquel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) badly wants a rematch with Manny Pacquiao so that he can improve upon the bad performance that Cotto had in that fight when he battered to pieces and taken out in the 12th round in an uncompetitive fight two years ago. Cotto, however, [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (February 4, 2011) – As they prepare for their own world title battles, multi-division world champions MIGUEL COTTO, NONITO DONAIRE, RICARDO MAYORGA and FERNANDO MONTIEL spoke from their training camps to give their predictions on Sunday’s Super Bowl XLV.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 38 KO’s) has been put in with former welterweight champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) in a dangerous tune-up fight on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto is coming off of shoulder surgery and hasn’t fought since mid 2010 when [...]

By Dan Ambrose: For some boxing fans of WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s), they see his March 12th bout against 37-year-old former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) as an easy win for Cotto due to his superior youth, speed and power. It’s hard to deny that Cotto [...]

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is going into his March 12th fight against the tough Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) with a one-fight winning steak after having beaten the WBA paper champion Yuri Foreman last year in June to capture the World Boxing Association title.

By Reynaldo Sanchez – boxeoeditores.com – Miguel Angel Cotto, WBA light middleweight world champion, installs his trainings camps for the next fight on March 12th against Ricardo Mayorga, in the Lucky Street Boxing GYM property of “The Heavyweight Factory”, in Hollywood. Fla.

By Chris Williams: With Bob Arum signing a deal with CBS/Showtime, it could mean that many of Arum’s fighters will now be fighting on Showtime instead of HBO. Recently, HBO decided to pass on one of Arum’s biggest cash cows, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto,w ho Arum wanted to put him in with 37-year-old [...]

By Dan Ambrose: With HBO passing on the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight on March 12th, and choosing instead to show the WBC middleweight fight between Sergio Martinez and unbeaten Sergiy Dzinziruk, boxing fans are going to have to choose which fight they want to see, as Bob Arum, the promoter for Cotto, has [...]

By Jason Kim: Since taking beatings from both Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto isn’t being put in with dangerous fighters all of a sudden, and you have to wonder if Cotto is ducking the better fighters in boxing to try and get a little more mileage out of his career. Cotto faced the [...]

By Dan Ambrose: Bob Arum was thinking he would get a fighter with a name to draw fans for the March 12th fight of his number #2 cash cow WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s). Former two division world champion Richard Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s), now 37, was spotted and the thinking [...]

By Chris Williams: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will have to earn his second chance to face Manny Pacquiao. Before Bob Arum allows Cotto to get a second bite at the Pacquiao apple, Cotto is going to have to go through a series of fights first against Richard Mayorga on March 12th, Antonio Margarito [...]

By Chris Williams: Trainer Emanuel Steward appears to be dreaming or something because he not only thinks his fighter WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) will KO his next opponent, 37-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) on March 12th, but also knockout Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao in rematches.

By Dan Ambrose: Photo credit Tom Casino /Showtime: Former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga is making WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto look really bad in their press conferences together with his trash talking and ability to literally talk circles around the socially uncomfortable looking Cotto.

By Dan Ambrose: – Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – Former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) got the better of World Boxing Association (WBA) junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) at today’s press conference to hype their March12th fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto, 30, has taken [...]

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (January 19, 2011) – For the first time in five years, Hall of Fame promoters Bob Arum and Don King will join forces to present “Relentless” — the first major pay-per-view world championship boxing event of the season — featuring the Pride of Puerto Rico, MIGUEL COTTO defending his World Boxing Association [...]

By Jason Kim: Bob Arum isn’t dismissing the threat that Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) poses for his fighter WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) for their fight on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Arum realizes that Mayorga can still punch and could be problems for Cotto [...]