Cotto, Margarito almost official!

[Wacko3205]

Cotto, Margarito almost official!

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Saturday, September 30 2006

Cotto-Quintana for vacant WBA welter belt

The December 2 world championship doubleheader featuring Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City will be officially announced at a Tuesday press conference in Puerto Rico. The undefeated Cotto (27-0, 22 KOs) will face fellow undefeated Puerto Rican, southpaw Carlos Quintana (23-0, 18 KOs) for the vacant WBA welterweight title, formally held by Ricky Hatton. WBO welterweight champion Margarito (33-4, 24 KOs) will defend his crown against #5 contender Joshua Clottey (30-1, 20 KOs). Both bouts will be televised on Showtime Championship Boxing beginning at 9 p.m. ET/PT (delayed on the west coast). Tickets will be priced at $300, $200, $100, $75 and $50 and will go on sale soon.

[Cortez The Killer]

Still too bad they are not fighting eachother. I would have preferred a bout of Cotto-Margarito over all of the bouts on the card combined!

[CutMeMick]

ALMOST OFFICIAL!!!

But yet Showtimes decided to feed us the event since about 1 month ago.
Bastards





Other then that we still got a while to go for that one, right now we got a pretty busy looking Oct.

Oct. 4: Somsak vs. Caballero WBA Super Bantamweight

Oct. 6 - Showtime
ShowBox: Semifinals for the Super Midd.

Oct. 4 - Telefutura
Larios vs. Martinez

Oct. 7 -Showtime
Chico vs. Casamayor III Ring & WBC
Darchinyan vs. Donaire IBF Flyweight

Oct. 7 -HBO
Valuev vs. Barret WBA Heavy.
Adamek vs. Briggs WBC Light heavy
Campbell vs. Zegan IBF lightweight elim. (Am'I the only person who thinks this is a really good card?
McBride vs. Mollo

Oct. 8
Kameda vs. Landaeta WBA Light Fly

Oct. 13 - Azteca America
Randall Bailey vs. Cesar Bazan

Oct. 14 - ESPN2
Manfredo vs. Spina
Green vs. Ravelo

Oct. 14 -HBO
Calzaghe vs. Bika WBO Super Midd.
Enzo vs. Hobson WBO Cruiser

Oct. 14
Kessler vs. Beyer WBC & WBA Super Midd.

Oct. 20 - Telefutura
Jason Litzau vs. TBA

Oct. 21 -HBO PPV
JMM vs. Jaca WBO Feather Interim
De Leon vs. Seeger WBO Super Bantam
Lazcano vs. Garnica
Escalante vs.Adorno

Oct. 27 - Telemundo
Joel 'love child' Julio vs. Cosme Rivera (The return of Julio)

Oct. 28
Cintron vs. Suarez vacant IBF Welter

[TheBESTP4P]

yah man cotto deserves a big pay day man. he always brings it man! stays hell active and provides exciting entertaining fights all the time! my favorite so far was still the war with torres im hella glad torres in on the grand finale undercard!!!!!!! i wanna see that motherF'er bang live!!!!!!!

[gyrokai]

yah man cotto deserves a big pay day man. he always brings it man! stays hell active and provides exciting entertaining fights all the time! my favorite so far was still the war with torres im hella glad torres in on the grand finale undercard!!!!!!! i wanna see that motherF'er bang live!!!!!!!

Totally Man. CC-Cotto!

[Wacko3205]

Still too bad they are not fighting eachother. I would have preferred a bout of Cotto-Margarito over all of the bouts on the card combined!

Agreed...but I'm pretty sure that this is the set up match to hype the fight.

[Purist]

Would have rather liked if it was

Cotto vs. Margarito

and

Quintana vs. Clottey

Better card imo

[Wacko3205]

Would have rather liked if it was

Cotto vs. Margarito

and

Quintana vs. Clottey

Better card imo

True...but most casuals don't know Margarito, Quintana, or Clottey...casuals know Cotto. I get a buncha hillbillies & necks coming in to my work that have seen Cotto & give him much respect...& they don't know about boxing wortha fwock.

Cotto does bring excitement...& this will be a good presser for the future winners.

[Purist]

Would have rather liked if it was

Cotto vs. Margarito

and

Quintana vs. Clottey

Better card imo

True...but most casuals don't know Margarito, Quintana, or Clottey...casuals know Cotto. I get a buncha hillbillies & necks coming in to my work that have seen Cotto & give him much respect...& they don't know about boxing wortha fwock.

Cotto does bring excitement...& this will be a good presser for the future winners.

Yeah thats true. But I think Quintana vs. Clottey is a battle of prospects who are on the cusp of being world contenders(their next fight) what better way then to have them fight each other.

Rather then risk that they will both be in over their heads against the main eventers?

Let the main eventers fight each other and let the undercarders fight each other.

Know what I mean?

[Wacko3205]

Yeah thats true. But I think Quintana vs. Clottey is a battle of prospects who are on the cusp of being world contenders(their next fight) what better way then to have them fight each other.

Agreed.

Rather then risk that they will both be in over their heads against the main eventers?

Agreed again.

Let the main eventers fight each other and let the undercarders fight each other.

Disagree...again...Margarito is known only in our circles. Credit where it is due...Showtime's SNF's really draw a lot of viewers & the way that throw out all those girls ass & that theme song...you'd be surprised with their count number.

Know what I mean?

But yes...I do see what your'e saying...from a die hard POV...but you see what I mean from a casual viewer...imagine Cotto beating the hell outta Quintanna & Margarito destroying Clottey in front of a buncha boozed out football fans one month & them salivating over the possibility of Margarito Cotto trying to strong arm the other?

That shit works on us menzes...

[Purist]

Yeah thats true. But I think Quintana vs. Clottey is a battle of prospects who are on the cusp of being world contenders(their next fight) what better way then to have them fight each other.

Agreed.

Rather then risk that they will both be in over their heads against the main eventers?

Agreed again.

Let the main eventers fight each other and let the undercarders fight each other.

Disagree...again...Margarito is known only in our circles. Credit where it is due...Showtime's SNF's really draw a lot of viewers & the way that throw out all those girls ass & that theme song...you'd be surprised with their count number.

Know what I mean?

But yes...I do see what your'e saying...from a die hard POV...but you see what I mean from a casual viewer...imagine Cotto beating the hell outta Quintanna & Margarito destroying Clottey in front of a buncha boozed out football fans one month & them salivating over the possibility of Margarito Cotto trying to strong arm the other?

That shit works on us menzes...

I see your point.

But more people have seen Margarito then have seen Clottey. So it can work both ways.

[El Gamo]

Excellent card in my opinion. It would not make sense to put Cotto in with a monster like Tony in his first fight at 147. And I would not call Quintana a prospect anymore,he's had more than a few fights and has a great style.

I think it is excellent work by Arum,and he has already mentioned that there will be a unification between the 2 later down the line if they win. This fight will increase Tony's popularity/increase his exposure more and I disagree,I think more and more casual fans are getting to know him.Hopefully it's only a matter of time before he becomes known to most casual fans,he has an exciting style.