The fight took place on December 2, Cotto defeated Quintana by technical knockout in the fifth round. Following a punch to the body, Quintana surrendered prior to the start of the sixth round and Cotto won the vacant World Boxing Association Welterweight Championship.
The bout included a knockdown and a point deduction registered for Cotto, who established dominance on the offensive following a close start. At the moment of the stoppage, the judges had Cotto leading Cotto won by technical knockout in the eleventh round when the referee stopped the fight.
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Who Is Columba Bush? It is most fitting, then, that Cotto will close his stellar career in the same building in front of so many of his loyal Puerto Rican fans. This will be his 10th fight at the Garden, where he's lost only once.
Olympian, in a round title bout on Saturday night on HBO 10 p. The worst was the infamous first fight in 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. 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.
Cotto left it a bloody, swollen mess in a ninth-round stoppage. Margarito paid a steep price. He also has a stepson, Luis Aquino, from Guzman's prior relationship. I lost a lot of good moments being with them because of boxing, just trying to provide the best for them.
But when their fight ended in a draw , the option of having Cotto face either for a December bout fell through. Other names mentioned as possible opponents included Jesse Vargas and Juan Manuel Marquez , the latter of whom retired in August. Errol Spence Jr. David Lemieux was also an option, but it always seemed unrealistic that he could cut enough weight to face Cotto. And so, we end up with Cotto facing Ali to end a career that 5 years from now will get him enshrined into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Aside from the successes, however, some of the lasting memories of Cotto verge on the tragic. In , Cotto was a year-old undefeated welterweight champion. Margarito was 30 and—despite the 5 loses on his record—enjoyed the distinction of being among the most avoided boxers; that includes Floyd Mayweather turning down a then-career high payout to not face the Mexican fighter. Some 40 seconds later, he took another knee before standing up and—with a bloody, dejected look—Cotto signaled to his corner to stop the fight, all while his wife and children sat in their seats, stunned and crying over the beating they saw first-hand.
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