Ricardo Mayorga

By Dan Ambrose: With HBO deciding to instead show the WBC middleweight bout between champion Sergio Martinez vs. Sergeii Dzinziruk on March 12th, Bob Arum has moved his fighter WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto 35-2, 28 KO’s) to Showtime for a pay-per-view bout against Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-2, 23 KO’s) that will compete with the Martinez-Dzinziruk fight. It’s a tough choice, because the Martinez fight won’t have the huge price tag that the Cotto-Mayorga fight card will have.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is probably pretty fortunate to be the holder of the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title right now, because if he had to have faced a tougher fighter than fellow Top Rank stable fighter Yuri Foreman in his last fight to capture the WBA title, Cotto probably would have been torn to pieces and finished off. Cotto has taken a ton of punishment in the ring in the past two years to the point where he looks bad when he starts to get hit.

By Dave Lahr: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) is like a walking scar from all the cuts he suffered around his face, especially his eyes, in various fights during his career. It seems like Cotto can’t go one fight without having his eyes ripped open or his eyebrows peeled like a bloody banana.

By Dan Ambrose: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) has taken a lifetimes’ worth of punishment in fights against Antonio Margarito, Joshua Clottey, Shane Mosley and Manny Pacquiao in the last three years. And the accumulation of shots that Cotto has absorbed has really taken its toll on him, making more vulnerable to getting hurt and stopped than ever was before.

By Chris Williams: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) will be defending his newly won World Boxing Association title against an old veteran of many ring wars 37-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) on March 12th at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada.