did miguel cotto retire

Miguel Cotto wants to retire! I gave up the business of telling fighters to retire back in 1996, after advising Evander Holyfield to walk away after his dreadful showing against Bobby Czyz in the same Madison Square Garden ring in which Ali and Cotto did battle Saturday night. Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) hopes to retire as a champion, too, and will put his WBO super welterweight belt on the line against 29-year-old challenger Sadam Ali … Cotto had said before that he would retire by the end of this year, no matter who he fought, no matter how he did, despite his oft-stated hope for a rematch with Canelo. So much for my retirement advice. Miguel Cotto, left, and Sadam Ali pose after their weigh-in Friday. If over the next days, weeks or months, Miguel Cotto begins to second-guess his decision to retire, someone who cares about him should sit him down in front of a TV set, pop in the DVD of his farewell fight against Sadam Ali and fast-forward to the 11th round. Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. I feel that is the key to this fight, if you break the body down the head will fall.”. That night, Leonard showed a lot of the flaws Cotto displayed Saturday. So the three-time world champion Miguel Cotto has declared in Puerto Rico that he expects to retire from boxing when he turns 30 on October 29, 2010. I spend too much time in here (gym) and I lose time with them. That’s what we work on a lot, the sports psychology the positive thinking and making the right moves at the right time.”, [QUOTE=hitking;14608593]Off the top of my head. And if he thinks otherwise, he’s only kidding himself. Again, sorry about what happened to the dude in your avi doe. And when he had Ali trapped on the ropes, as he did numerous times in the fight – a predicament that would have proven fatal for most Cotto opponents in years gone by – not once was he able to hurt his man, or even get him to stand still. If anything, this fight was reminiscent of another Garden party spoiled by an intruder, the night Terry Norris, a big underdog, came in and shocked Sugar Ray Leonard back in 1991. The 36-year-old Puerto Rican, who has held titles at four different weights, will defend his WBO belt for the the final time at New York's Madison Square Garden. Six-time world champion Miguel Cotto will bring the curtain down on his boxing career with a world light-middleweight title fight against Sadam Ali on December 2. Ali tags Cotto with an uppercut. American Ali has won 25 of his 26 contests but was beaten by Jessie Vargas in his only previous world title shot. Miguel Cotto Falls In Retirement Fight, What’s Next For Sadam Ali: Perhaps the most shocking result of the weekend, and one of the most shocking results of the entire year, saw Miguel Cotto lose his retirement fight to Sadam Ali, losing the WBO junior middleweight … His list of opponents bears that out: Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pacquiao, Canelo Alvarez, Sergio Martinez, Austin Trout, Margarito and Mosley, all champions or former champions. At 35, the boxer is starting to get too old for the sport and his body may not be able to handle the fatigue and physical requirements needed to stay on top, particularly when there are many younger boxers still in their prime looking to take a shot at a worn-out star boxer. Photo by Tom Hogan - Hoganphotos/Golden Boy Promotions. Your destination for the best boxing news, videos and live streams! He has a great jab. "I'm very excited to be back in the ring for my final fight at the Garden," Cotto said. All Rights Reserved. Lopez: Lomachenko Is Better Off At 130 Or 126 Pounds; 135 Is My Weight Class! And yet, as early as the second round, it was Cotto who was wobbling, first from a lead right that landed high on his forehead, and eight rounds later, from a left hook. Cotto (41-5, 33 KOs) hopes to retire as a champion, too, and will put his WBO super welterweight belt on the line against 29-year-old challenger Sadam Ali (25-1, 14 KOs), a former U.S. Olympian, in a 12-round title bout on Saturday night on HBO (10 p.m. However, Cotto and his team have not yet officially stated the boxer will indeed retire, although they also have yet to confirm if he has another fight lined up for 2016.eval(ez_write_tag([[300,250],'christiantoday_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',156,'0','0'])); The Bleacher Report cites that Cotto may end up facing against Gennady Golovkin as a means to silence naysayers, or Timothy Bradley, Andy Lee or a rematch against Alvarez. “It’s my second home … being there is a marvelous adventure.”, “I know they follow Miguel Cotto. Cotto has 41 wins from 46 fights, with Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Saul Alvarez inflicting three of his five defeats. ?…, [QUOTE=Wild Apache;14607813]Next week saturday to be exact. Cotto, who was brutally beaten and whose face was a bloody mass after his 11th-round TKO loss to Margarito, has said often that he has no doubt Margarito had used the same substance against him. I have to be in the greatest shape if I want to perform like I need to.”. "I've worked really hard my entire career to be at this level. He's actually not my idol...just 1 of my fav current boxers c0ck sucka...even if he was my idol he beat cotto lol. That’s why retirement is a little bit difficult.”. He led the score through the entire fight and scored a knockdown in the second round. The worst was the infamous first fight in 2008 against Antonio Margarito, who was found to have hand wraps loaded with a substance believed to be plaster of Paris in his subsequent fight against Shane Mosley. I have to be at my best. He can come forward, and he's also learned how to move a little bit, too. A few months later, of course, Holyfield steamrolled Mike Tyson. The former light-welterweight and welterweight world champion will be defending the WBO light-middleweight title he won against Japan's Yoshihiro Kamegai in August in his last professional bout. “If you don’t have the work ethic, you’re not going to go too far in this business. “He definitely could go on if he wanted to, but he made the decision, and we all respect that decision and no one is going to push him to keep going,” Roach said. And that fighter was seen only in fleeting glimpses in the Madison Square Garden ring against Ali. Cotto’s Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, with whom he has worked his last six fights, including Saturday’s finale, told USA TODAY that Cotto is still at the top of his game and doesn’t need to retire. 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