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Cotto is married to Melissa Guzmán with whom he has three children, Luis, Alondra and Miguel Cotto III. [125] Cotto has another daughter from a previous relationship, who was born in November 2006. Cotto also owns and presides a boxing promotion named "Promociones Miguel Cotto", which organizes fight cards in Puerto Rico. [126]
The fight generated $20 million from 350,000 buys on HBO PPV. This was considered a disappointment as HBO projected the fight would do around a 500,000 buyrate. Bob Arum, Cotto's promoter stated the reason for a downfall in PPV buys was simply because there was too many of them. Martinez's promoter Lou DiBella added that there was a lot events ...
In his next fight, Cotto fought former three-division champion Shane Mosley on November 10, 2007. Mosley had originally set his sights on fighting World Boxing Council (WBC) welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. , but Mayweather was in negotiations to fight Ricky Hatton , [ 9 ] and on July 28, 2007, Mayweather and Hatton officially agreed ...
After a series of setbacks including further surgeries on his knees, Martínez fought again over a year after the Murray fight, losing his WBC, The Ring and lineal middleweight titles to three-division former world champion Miguel Cotto on 7 June 2014, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. It was evident straight away that Martinez's legs ...
However, a bloodied up Cotto decided to continue the fight, but he could not evade Pacquiao's onslaught, prompting the referee to stop the fight fifty-five seconds into the twelfth round. [7] Pacquiao was ahead on all three judges' scorecards before the stoppage, which read 109–99, 108–99, and 108–100, all in favor of Pacquiao.
His signature stoppage victory over Miguel Cotto in 2008 was subsequently called into question. Following consecutive losses to Manny Pacquiao (a fight in which Margarito sustained career-changing eye damage) and a rematch against Cotto, Margarito retired from boxing in 2012 but returned for three more fights between 2016 and 2017.
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 ]
This eye almost lost him his license to fight upon a medical inspection. During Margarito's next bout against Miguel Cotto, his eye suffered severe swelling and caused him to lose the bout via doctor/referee stoppage. The fight generated 1.15 million buys and 64 million dollars in revenue and the attendance was 41,734.