It’s been a year of near-misses for British boxing in 2011. The UK entered the year with four legitimate world champions and exited with one, and in-between eleven British fighters failed to win in world title fights. December turned out to be our winter of discontent. Amir Khan surrendered his IBF and WBA light-welterweight belts to a resurgent Lamont Peterson, and promptly … [Read more...]
Vengeance is Cotto’s! Miguel Stops Margarito in Rematch at MSG
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY -- It wasn't the type of overwhelming revenge that Cotto's fans had in mind, but the reigning WBA junior middleweight champion from Caguas, Puerto Rico still got his hand raised, kept his belt, and got the doctor-ordered TKO 10 win over hated rival, Antonio Margarito (38-8, 27 KOs) in front of a rabidly pro-Cotto crowd at MSG. At the time … [Read more...]
Margarito-Cotto Weigh-In (w/Video), Rios Loses Title on Scale, More
From New York, NY -- Miguel Cotto: 152.5 (WBA junior middleweight champion) Antonio Margarito: 152.5 Also, Brandon Rios has been forced to vacate his WBA lightweight title due to failing to make the 135 lb. limits after three tries. In his first attempt, he weighed in at 136.4 lbs. Moments later, he came in at 135.6 lbs. Then after being given an hour to lose the … [Read more...]
Two British Murrays On The World Title Trail This Weekend…
This weekend two unfancied British fighters go on their travels to try and grab world titles on foreign soil. Martin Murray, a British middleweight out of Ricky Hatton’s burgeoning stable, gets a surprise tilt at German Felix Sturm’s WBA title. Murray is unbeaten in a 23 fight career, and is the current British and Commonwealth champion. Sturm, 36-2-1, is of course the WBA’s … [Read more...]
Cotto-Margarito II: The Only Preview You Need
By Fox Doucette The great philosopher and musical genius W. Axl Rose once sang “Yesterday, there was so many things I was never told. Now that I'm startin' to learn, I feel I'm growing old.” For Miguel Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs), who is 31 but in the minds of most boxing fans may as well be turning forty for all of the miles on his odometer, these lyrics are oddly appropriate. … [Read more...]