It will be the battle of South America when Miguel Angel Cotto of Puerto Rico defends is WBA Welterweight title against Mexican Antonio Margarito in Las Vegas this Saturday night.
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Cotto is now unbeaten in 32 fights and most of those, 26 to be precise, have come by the way of knock-out. ‘Junito’ is carving out his own piece of boxing history and should make it 33 wins from 33 fights when he makes his fifth defence of the title.
British boxing fans could hold interested in the result as Cotto has been touted as a future opponent of both Ricky Hatton and Amir Khan.
27-year-old Cotto is a heavy odd-on favourite with the bookies to retain his title and why not with a KO percentage of 81.25%? However his opponent is no clown having held the WBO version of the title and he stppped Kermit Cintron in his last bout to claim the IBF belt. That said he has lost five times showing a little vunerablity but none of them have come by knockout. So this fight looks as if it could go the distance but the longer fights go on the stringer Cotto seems to get.
Cotto seems to be in a different class at the moment so expect him to win but it will be an entralling contest.
