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Miguel Cotto vs. Antonio Margarito II was a professional boxing match contested onDecember 3, 2011 , for the WBA (Super) super welterweight championship. [1] The bout was at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, United States under the promotion of Top Rank at a catchweight of 153 pounds.
Miguel Cotto (right) against Oktay Urkal on March 3, 2007. After making six successful defenses of the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light welterweight title, Cotto moved up in weight class to the welterweight division and defeated Carlos Quintana on December 2, 2006 to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) welterweight title. [2]
Cotto was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to Puerto Rican parents, and relocated to Caguas, Puerto Rico, with his family before he turned two. [5] There are several figures linked to boxing in his family, including his late father Miguel Cotto Sr., his brother José Miguel Cotto, his second cousin Abner Cotto, and his uncle and former boxing trainer Evangelista Cotto.
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2 Point Lead host Yannis Pappas went to Gleason's in Brooklyn to hang out with Middleweight champion Miguel Cotto, who sports a career record of 39-4 with 32 knockouts. Cotto enters his first ...
On December 2, 2006, Margarito defeated future champion Joshua Clottey by a twelve-round unanimous decision. Margarito set a Compubox all-time record of 1,675 total punches thrown in a twelve-round bout. In the aftermath of the fight, it was revealed that Margarito had injured his ankle a week before the fight, but went on to fight regardless ...
Shortly after this bout Cotto suffered a dangerous injury that threatened to derail his promising boxing career. As he was driving to the gymnasium at 5am, he apparently fell asleep and crashed, breaking his arm and requiring hospitalization.
The fight started off with Cotto establishing himself as the aggressor, but with Mayweather winning the first two rounds using effective counter-punching and body movement to block most of Cotto's punches. However, in the third round Cotto seemed to successfully swarm Mayweather and land decent flurries to steal himself the round.