Ad
related to: miguel cotto fight las vegasvegas.com has been visited by 100K+ users in the past month
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Manny Pacquiao vs. Miguel Cotto, billed as Firepower, was a boxing match for the WBO welterweight championship. [1] The bout was held on November 14, 2009, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Pacquiao won the fight via technical knockout in the twelfth round.
Miguel Cotto vs. Ricardo Mayorga, billed as Relentless, was a boxing super welterweight fight for the WBA (Super) super welterweight championship. [1] [2] The bout was held on March 12, 2011, at MGM Grand Garden Arena, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. [3] [4] Cotto won the fight via technical knockout in the twelfth round. [5]
It was Cotto's first fight in Las Vegas since December 11, 2004, on the undercard of Vitali Klitschko's bout with Danny Williams. According to Bob Arum, the match took place in Las Vegas to promote Cotto to a new audience while also appealing to Margarito's Mexican American fans in California. [34]
On November 14, 2009, the fight took place in front of a sold-out crowd of 16,200 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Pacquiao defeated Cotto via TKO, 55 seconds into the 12th round, dethroning Cotto as a WBO welterweight champion. With the win, Pacquiao made history becoming the first ever seven-weight world champion.
Rather than agreeing to a rematch with Clottey, Margarito vacated the IBF title and agreed to a fight with undefeated WBA Welterweight Champion Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico. The Cotto-Margarito match took place on July 26, 2008, in Las Vegas. Margarito won in the 11th round via technical knockout.
Martin announced on January 19, 2011, that she would be fighting again in hopes of her 50th career win on the undercard of the Ricardo Mayorga vs Miguel Cotto fight at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 12, 2011, against Dakota Stone in a rematch of their 2009 Fight. [13] The fight was postponed due to a rib injury to Martin.
Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Miguel Cotto, billed as Ring Kings, was a professional boxing match contested on May 5, 2012, for the WBA (Super) super welterweight championship. [1] The bout was held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. [2]
The bout was held on May 4, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States on Showtime PPV. The bout was the first major televised fight of Mayweather's career to not be aired on HBO PPV.