By Jason Kim: Last Saturday night’s pay-per-view attraction between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) and 38-year-old former two division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) brought in good PPV numbers, says Dan Rafael of ESPN. Rafael is reporting that the Cotto-Mayorga fight brought in between 200-250 thousand buys. These are really good numbers for a match-up between an older fighter like Mayorga and Cotto.
Cotto vs. Mayorga
Mayorga not retiring, says he has three fights planned
By Dan Ambrose: 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) has changed his mind about retiring from boxing after his 12th round stoppage loss to WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto last Saturday night. After the fight, Mayorga said that he was going to start looking for a job as he was retiring. However, Mayorga has suddenly had a change of mind and says he’s got “Two easy fights and one hard fight” according to primerahora.
Cotto beat Mayorga the only way he could by fighting defensively
By Dan Ambrose: Since his recent hard fought 12th round knockout win over the tough Ricardo Mayorga last Saturday night at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada, there has been a lot of questions about why WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-1, 29 KO’s) didn’t fight more aggressively in the fight to try and take Mayorga out earlier.
Cotto might have lost to Mayorga if not for Steward
By Tim Nielsen: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto likely would have been knocked out or badly beaten up by 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga if not for his new trainer Emanuel Steward, who has worked wonders in making Cotto a more defensively oriented fighter. Last Saturday night, Cotto took a lot of punishment early on from the determined Mayorga, as he tore into Cotto in rounds one through four.
Should Cotto move back to the welterweight division?
By Gerardo Granados: The reigning WBA super world light middleweight champion Miguel Angel Cotto (age 30 / 5´7” height – 67” reach / T38 – W36(29) – L2(2) – D0), defeated veteran Ricardo Mayorga former WBC – WBA Super World welterweight and WBC light middleweight champion but failed to impress boxing fans by allowing Mayorga to survive until the last round of their fight; giving the impresion to lack of enough power to finish of an aging former champion.
Cotto beats Mayorga, but fails to show he deserves Pacquiao rematch
By Jason Kim: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) did what he had to do to stop 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) in the 12th round last Saturday night in Cotto’s tune-up bout at the MGM Grand, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Fighting for the first time since last June, Cotto faced an aging Mayorga, who came into the fight a whopping 10-1 underdog. Mayorga didn’t fight like someone with those kinds of odds going against him, as he really took the fight to the much younger 30-year-old Cotto and had him on the run for most of the fight.
Cotto gets all he can handle from Mayorga
By Dan Ambrose: Coming into the fight a huge favorite, WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) failed to prove that he deserved to be a big favorite by struggling to beat 38-year-old Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) by a 12th round stoppage last Saturday night in Las Vegas, Nevada. Indeed, the fight was stopped after Mayorga injured his left hand when he apparently got it tangled with one of Cotto’s own shots. Mayorga landed the better combinations in the fight and got the most applause during the night’s action.
Cotto to fight Margarito next
By Michael Lieberman: WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KO’s) had a so-so performance last Saturday night in beating 38-year-old former two-division world champion Ricardo Mayorga (29-8-1, 23 KO’s) in a 12th round stoppage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight was fairly competitive with Mayorga landing a lot of hard combinations and appearing to win at least three rounds.
Will Cotto mentally crumble under Mayorga’s brutal attacks tonight?
By Dan Ambrose: We just saw how WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) was dominated by challenger Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) in their press conferences together. It got so bad that Cotto wouldn’t even stand and look Mayorga in the eyes for the traditional face-off photo sessions. That’s really bad. Mayorga in turn sees this as a sign of cowardice, and says he’s going to knock Cotto out. He offered a rose at their last press conference, treating him with contempt.
Mayorga hoping to get a Pacquiao fight if he destroys Cotto tonight
By Dan Ambrose: Top Rank promoter Bob Arum has already said that the winner of tonight’s fight between WBA junior middleweight champion Miguel Cotto (35-2, 28 KO’s) and challenger Ricardo Mayorga (29-7-1, 23 KO’s) may get a shot against his cash cow Manny Pacquiao in the near future. But will Arum actually allow Pacquiao to fight Mayroga, a non-Top Rank fighter? I have my doubts. I think it makes for a good soundbite Arum talking about possibly matching Mayorga up with Pacquiao if he beats Cotto, but I just can’t see that happening.