Miguel Cotto vs. Yoshihiro Kamegai – Official weights

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By Jim Dower: A very thin looking Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) weighed in at 153.6 pounds during Friday’s weigh-in for his fight against #6 WBO Yoshihiro Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) for their battle on Saturday night for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Kamegai, 34, weighed in at 153.8 lbs.

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Miguel Cotto looks to win WBO title against Kamegai on Sat.

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto will be looking to win the vacant WBO junior middleweight title this Saturday night against Yoshihiro Kamegai at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Unless Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) has lost his boxing skills in the 20 months he’s been out of the ring since his last fight, he should have an easy time defeating the 34-year-old Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) this Saturday night on HBO Championship Boxing.

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Cotto vs. Kamegai: Miguel expects good fight

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) will be looking to win another world title this month when he fights for the vacant WBO junior middleweight belt against Yoshihiro “El Maestrito” Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) on August 26 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. Cotto is expected to retire at the end of the year. We’ll have to see about that. With all the opportunities for big fights for Cotto, it’s difficult to picture him walking away from boxing at the end of 2017.

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Miguel Cotto fights Yoshihiro Kamegai for WBO 154lb title

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Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs), the only boxer from Puerto Rico to earn five world titles in four weight divisions, will look to capture his sixth world title when he takes on Yoshihiro “El Maestrito” Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) for the WBO Junior Middleweight title. Cotto will make his triumphant return to the ring after a layoff of nearly two years and will appear on HBO for an astounding 23rd time. The event takes place Saturday, Aug. 26 at the StubHub Center in Carson, California and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® beginning at 9:45 p.m. ET/PT.

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Miguel Cotto vs. David Lemieux possible for December 2

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By Dan Ambrose: Former 4 division world champion Miguel Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) could be facing former IBF 160 lb. champion David Lemieux (38-3, 33 KOs) on December 2 in New York on HBO IF Cotto defeats Yoshihiro Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) in their fight on August 26 on HBO World Championship Boxing at the StubHub Center in Carson, California. #1 WBO Cotto and #6 WBO Kamegai is fighting for the vacant WBO 154lb title even though Cotto hasn’t fought in the last 21 months.

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Father Time remains undefeated: Reflections on Fighting too long

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By Joseph Hirsch – There’s something painful about watching a boxer fight long past their prime, but it’s also many times inevitable. Money doesn’t grow on trees and fighters fight until they can’t anymore. Sometimes they go out on their shield figuratively, and sometimes, like Bernard Hopkins, they literally go out on their head.

Seeing a great fighter get worked over by someone he would have beat in his prime recalls Rose Louis’s comments about watching her husband Joe wrestling. “It was like seeing President Eisenhower washing dishes.”

In his memoir, The Bronze Bomber notes that he didn’t see anything wrong with wrestling, but he also added that “when you’re broke, who can see straight?”

The most painful of all these last-ditch efforts by former greats must be Muhammad Ali’s match (if it can even be called that) against Jamaica’s Trevor Berbick.

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Kell Brook wants Miguel Cotto next

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By Scott Gilfoid: Kell Brook has had rotten luck lately in losing his last 2 fights to Errol Spence and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin, but now he’s hoping to get a contest against Miguel Cotto if he doesn’t retire after his August 26 fight. Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn reportedly wants to match him against the 36-year-old Cotto (40-5, 33 KOs) in December in a mega-fight.

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Cotto looking for “great victory” over Kamegai

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto will be looking to pick up another world title next month in his unexpected fight for the vacant WBO junior middleweight title against Yoshihiro Kamegai (27-3-, 24 Kos) on August 26 on HBO World Championship Boxing from the beautiful StubHub Center in Carson, California.

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Miguel Cotto surprises in signing multi-fight deal with Golden Boy

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By Dan Ambrose: Miguel Cotto surprised a lot of boxing fans on Wednesday in inking a multi-fight deal with Golden Boy Promotions on Wednesday that will keep the 36-year old fighter in action beyond his next fight against Yoshihiro Kamegai (27-3-2, 24 KOs) on August 26. It was thought that the 36-year-old Cotto would be retiring from boxing at the end of the year after a possible rematch with Saul Canelo Alvarez, but new contract with Golden Boy changes that.

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