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.
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Will HBO be hurt with Cotto-Mayorga not being on their network?
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 Ricardo Mayorga on their network in a pay-per-view bout on 3/12. HBO, for whatever reason, decided to go with the Sergio Martinez vs. Sergiy Dzinziruk fight instead on March 12th.
Martinez-Dzinziruk to compete with Cotto-Mayorga on 3/12
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 decided to have the Cotto-Mayorga pay-per-view fight directly compete with the Martinez-Dzinziruk fight instead of wisely choosing to move it to a date that lacked another good fight.
HBO passed on Cotto-Mayorga: Why isn’t Miguel facing better fighters?
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 feather-fisted WBA junior middleweight paper champion Yuri Foreman in his last fight in June of 2010. Foreman may be a decent fighter but he’s far from being in the class of Sergio Martinez, a fighter that has been trying to get a fight with Cotto for ages without any luck.
Cotto-Mayorga: Will Ricardo destroy Arum’s #2 cash cow?
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 was that he would help draw the casual boxing fan to help make the March 12th PPV card a success in getting PPV buys.
Cotto could get rematch with Pacquiao if he defeats Mayorga, Margarito and Chavez Jr.
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 in the Summer and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. likely after that, and hope to come out of them unscathed so that he can get another huge money fight with boxing’s number #1 cash cow Pacquiao.
Steward thinks Cotto will stop Mayorga, Margarito and Pacquiao in his next three fights – Boxing News
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.
Mayorga really getting the better of Cotto in trash talking
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.
Cotto vs. Mayorga: Will Arum allow Pacquiao to fight Ricardo if he wins?
By Chris Williams: Photo credit Tom Casino / Showtime: It goes without saying that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto will be getting another crack at fellow Top Rank fighter Manny Pacquiao in the future. It probably doesn’t even matter if Cotto gets beaten up and knocked out in his next fight against Ricardo Mayorga on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cotto can lose that fight, take a beating and then take another beating in the summer in a rematch with Antonio Margarito, and Cotto is probably still going to get a good money rematch with Pacquiao in 2011 or 2012.
Cotto-Mayorga: Ricardo calls Miguel “Punch drunk” and vows to retire him
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 some beatings in his his last three fights and also taken a terrible beating in his loss to Antonio Margarito in 2008. Cotto hasn’t looked the same since taking a royal pounding from Margarito but has still won three out of the last four fights. However, Cotto looked on the verge of losing to Joshua Clottey in 2009 until Clottey ran out of gas.