By Dan Ambrose: There’s no question that WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) took at least savage beatings in the past three years in his losses to Antonio Margarito and Manny Pacquiao. Cotto, 30, also took terrible punishment in his fights with Joshua Clottey and Shane Mosley. Those fights seem to have taken something out of Cotto, because he appear to be the same fighter he once was regardless of the paper title that he’s in possession due to a win over one of his promoter Bob Arum’s fighters Yuri Foreman last year in June.
Ricardo Mayorga
Mayorga says he’s going to knock Cotto out in the 4th, then go after Pacquiao
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 Cotto, but feels that his size, experience and power will be too much for the smaller 5’7″ Cotto.
If Cotto gets cut by Mayorga, he’ll lose – Prediction
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 same, as long as the cut occurs above one of Cotto’s eyes. The reason I say this is because Cotto, unlike some fighters, tends to fall apart when he starts bleeding from cuts over his eyes.
Mayorga melting off the pounds, Cotto could be in trouble
By Dan Ambrose: Former two time world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) is working feverishly in training camp, melting off lard to get ready to take on WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mayorga, who once had a slender, athletic physique, has put on a lot of weight in the past six years and hasn’t looked like the same fighter he once was back in the early 2000’s.
Cotto-Mayorga: Is this a mismatch or will Ricardo finish what Margarito started?
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 fight for Cotto against an old lion of the past. However, things may not work out as good as Bob Arum, Cotto’s promoter, is hoping it will.
Clottey vs. Green: Joshua sees action on Cotto-Mayorga undercard
By Jason Kim: Former IBF welterweight champion Joshua Clottey (35-4, 20 KO’s) will be getting back in the ring on March 12th against Calvin Green (21-5-1, 13 KO’s) in a 10 round bout on the undercard of the Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga fight at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Clottey, 33, will be moving up to junior middleweight for this fight and should in theory have more strength because of that. Clottey believes his power has disappeared because of the weight he has to take off each time he would fight at welterweight.
No Pacquiao fight for Mayorga if he beats Cotto, will have to settle for Margarito
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.
Cotto vs. Mayorga: Who Will Pull Off The Victory?
By Edgar Solorzano: On March 12th Puerto Rico’s champ Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) will face former WBC Junior Middleweight champion Ricardo “El Matador” Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev.
Cotto vs. Mayorga: Will Miguel’s skin hold up under the pounding from Ricardo?
By Dan Ambrose: In many of Miguel Cotto’s fights in the past three years, his face has taken a lot of punishment in terms of getting hit, cut up and ending up swollen to grotesque proportions. Part of the problem is Cotto’s lack of defense. He gets hit far too much for his own good. But the other problem just seems to be with his skin on his face. His skin, because of the scar tissue around his eyes, tears easily, and his face has a nasty habit of swelling up quickly and easily when hit. On March 12th, Cotto will be facing Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cotto-Mayorga: Ricardo to spoil Miguel’s big plans for a Pacquiao rematch
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, has to beat Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) on March 12th before he can hope to get a big money rematch with Pacquiao.