Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, Austin Trout scored a unanimous decision over Miguel Cotto. Years of hard work and dedication paid off for the Las Cruces, New Mexico native as he walked into Cotto's adopted home turf and affirmed his status as an elite junior middleweight. With the win, Trout now moves on to Saul "Canelo" Alvarez and the type of money … [Read more...]
Cotto, Roach,PED lawsuits and 80’s high fashion: The Sunday Brunch
In what I'm quite reluctant to refer to as another chapter in a big year of upsets (Ortiz/Lopez, Bute/Froch, Garcia/Khan and Pacquiao/Bradley immediately come to mind), Austin "No Doubt" Trout successfully defended his 'regular' WBA junior middleweight championship against the ever stoic Caguas Crusher, Miguel Cotto. As usual, Cotto looked sharp early, throwing thoughtful … [Read more...]
Austin Trout decisions Miguel Cotto at MSG; Velez, Jacobs victorious
Madison Square Garden, New York-- Miguel Cotto (37-4, 30 KOs) may have carried out the last fight of a stellar 11-year career Saturday night at Madison Square Garden and on Showtime Championship Boxing as he failed in his bid to take the WBA junior middleweight title from defending titlist, Austin Trout (26-0, 14 KOs). Although the judges' scores were ridiculously wide at … [Read more...]
Miguel Cotto-Austin Trout: The Boxing Tribune Preview
by Fox Doucette “If everyone is special, then nobody is special,” the saying goes, and by that metric, Miguel Cotto (37-3, 30 KOs) and Austin Trout (25-0, 14 KOs) are fighting for the right to be complete nobodies Saturday night, December 1, at Madison Square Garden. The WBA World Championship is at stake at junior middleweight, which brings up all kinds of existential … [Read more...]
A word on Adrien Broner – Plus, I call it like I see it in this week’s Sunday Brunch
The number one ranked super featherweight in the world, Adrien Broner, has extremely high hopes for himself. Backed by his entourage, team and promoters along with big boss-man, Al Haymon, Broner is being dubbed by some fans and media members as the next Floyd Mayweather. What I think is: The unbeaten 23 year old still has miles to go before he's mentioned in the same … [Read more...]