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When Miguel Cotto entered the ring against Antonio Margarito on July 26, 2008, he did so as more than a well thought-of champion. With a record of 32-0 and 26 knockouts, Cotto was on the short list of best pound for pound fighters in the world. He had recent wins over near peak-level fighters like Shane Mosley and Zab Judah. When the bell sounded for round one, he was the favorite.

Early on, Cotto made the odds-makers look wise. His superior skill, hand speed, and activity kept him in control of the early rounds. However, his fortunes started to change midway through the fight. While he was still winning on points, he appeared to be the worse for wear despite what the punch counts might have told you. In some ways, it was similar to the great Meldrick Taylor/Julio Caesar Chavez fight, where for most of the fight, your brain told you one thing, but as time passed and you looked upon the faces of the combatants in their respective corner, your eyes told you another.

Everyone knew Margarito had a beard made of stone, so it was no surprise that while he may have taken more punches, his chin was holding steady. However, Cotto began to look more and more like a man who had been held at a CIA ā€œblack opsā€ site, undergoing enhanced interrogation.

Cotto had been stung in rounds before. His offensive heavy style meant there was always an element of risk involved in any of his fights. This was different though. He looked hurt. Broken down. By the time the fight hit the championship rounds, this suspicion became manifest as Margarito narrowed the scorecards and forced Cotto to a knee in the 11th. That night I saw something I had never seen before from Cotto. In the past when he had been tagged with something heavy, his response was to come back with some fire of his own. Against Margarito, Cotto looked afraid. He began to dance around the ring and was continually backing away in an effort to avoid the Mexican fighterā€™s heavy handed onslaught.

While Cotto would not quit, his corner wisely realized they needed to save him from himself and threw in the towel shortly after the 11th round knockdown. Even after taking a savage beating, Cotto was still only down on one card 94-96, with the other two scoring the fight a draw through the tenth.

Miguel Cotto has never been quite the same after that. The beating he took on that July evening slowed his speed and impacted his skill set. He is still a good fighter, but you can tell he has been changed. After a solid TKO victory over the ā€˜Bā€™ level Michael Jennings and an uninspiring split decision victory over Joshua Clottey, Cotto suffered another beating in the ring, this time at the hands of Manny Pacquiao, who scored two knockdowns against the Puerto Rican before the fight was mercifully stopped in the 12th.

Cotto followed that loss with TKO wins over Yuri Foreman (who due to injury was fighting on one leg), and the faded Ricardo Mayorga. Cotto had always wanted a rematch against Margarito. On December 3, 2011, he got his wish. As fight fans know, some interesting evidence came to light about Antonio Margarito in the interim. Prior to his fight with Shane Mosley in January of 2009, Margarito had been unmasked as a cheat when a pre-fight inspection revealed he had been mixing plaster in with his hand wraps. Interestingly enough, Margarito took a beating of his own that night at the hands of ā€œSugarā€ Shane.

However, Cotto wanted justice of his own. And in their rematch, he found a measure of that when the fight was stopped in the 9th due to Cotto battering Margaritoā€™s right eye into an unsightly swollen mess.

Still, it felt a bit like a pyrrhic victory though. Cottoā€™s once wildfire, audience-pleasing style had been diminished by caution, weakened reflexes, and an inability to fully recover from 10 plus rounds of punches from the likely loaded gloves of Margarito in their first fight.

Wide decision losses to Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Austin Trout followed. The latter defeat was particularly concerning. Trout is a fine fighter, but no world beater. Cotto was listless and all but outclassed against a boxer who he would have likely bounced around the ring prior to his first fight with Margarito. On that evening, Miguel Cotto looked very close to the end.

After that bordering on embarrassing loss, Cotto changed gears and reached out to Freddie Roach to take over the duties of trainer. The results were immediate and maybe even remarkable. Cotto looked spectacular in stopping solid pro Delvin Rodriguez in the 3rd and thoroughly dominatedā€”if not endedā€”the once great Sergio Martinez with a 10th round retirement.

In both fights, Cotto showed a craft and skill level he had not shown in a very long time. While itā€™s fair to say that neither Rodriguez nor Martinez are ā€œgreatā€ opponents at this point in their careers, the advancement of Cottoā€™s careerā€”which seemed all but over after the Trout fightā€”is extraordinary. No one would have blamed you if you thought his days of being a top tier fighter in big money bouts was over. Were it not for the Mayweather/Pacquiao soap opera finally finding a penultimate date, Cotto might have fought either of them. This was a possibility that would have seemed not only unlikely, but depressing just two years before.

This second wind of Cottoā€™s is rather unexpected. Maybe itā€™s foolā€™s gold. Maybe heā€™ll be exposed if he gets in the ring with Golovkin or the winner of Manny/Money. That might not only be possible, but perhaps likely.

Still, when we consider all that Cotto has been through and what Margaritoā€™s malfeasance may have robbed from him over three years ago, itā€™s essential to reach a favorable if honestly mixed conclusion about the career of Miguel Cotto. He will never be as great as he could have been, but heā€™s also more than he should have been. Those two thoughts may appear to be mutually exclusive. They are not.

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Avila Perspective, Chap. 278: Clashes of Spring in Phoenix, Las Vegas, and LA

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PHOENIX-It happens every Spring.

Promoters worldwide gather their forces and produce their best fight cards from Europe to the Americas and in Asia.

Beginning Friday, it starts with Top Rank staging a heavy-duty fight card featuring Arizonaā€™s Oscar Valdez and Australiaā€™s Liam Wilson along with a female battle for the undisputed minimumweight championship. ESPN+ will stream the card.

Valdez (31-2, 23 KOs) meets Wilson (13-2, 7 KOs) at the Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on Friday, March 29. Both have a common foe and lost to champion Emanuel Navarrete. Both want a rematch or world title fight.

ā€œI know Liam Wilson. Heā€™s a tough fighter,ā€ said Valdez. I was there when he fought Emanuel Navarrete and he sent him to the canvas.ā€

Wilson almost defeated the champion and now must face two-division world titlist Valdez in his Arizona backyard.

ā€œThe whole world saw what happened. I should have already become world champion,ā€ said Wilson of his fight with Navarrete. ā€œI won the belt that night.ā€

Itā€™s not to be missed.

In the co-main WBA and WBC titlist Seniesa Estrada (25-0, 9 KOs) and WBO and IBF titlist Yokasta Valle (30-2, 9 KOs) battle for the undisputed minimumweight world championship.

Costa Ricaā€™s Valle has super speed and the ability to change tactics if things donā€™t go her way as she showed against Argentinaā€™s Evelin Bermudez. She is also one of the most athletically gifted fighters in female boxing with incredible stamina.

ā€œThis isnā€™t personal. I respect her as the champion that she is,ā€ Valle said. ā€œAnd in the ring, we will see who is the real champion.ā€

East L.Aā€™s Estrada is perhaps one of the most skilled fighters in the world. She also packs power in her small frame. So far, no one has been able to figure out her fighting style or overcome her quickness. The left hook is her best weapon but she has floored opponents with her right cross as well.

ā€œThe talk is over. Its time for us to get in there,ā€ said Estrada. ā€œItā€™s about showing the world that womenā€™s boxing is here, itā€™s on the rise, and we are great.ā€

Las Vegas

Aussie slugger Tim Tszyu (24-0, 17 KOs) can add the WBC to his WBO super welterweight title but must pass through giant Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1, 13 KOs) to accomplish unification. Tszyu was supposed to fight Keith Thurman but injury forced him out of Saturdayā€™s TGB Promotions fight card at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Last-minute replacements can be a problem.

Fundora is already a problem with his six-inch height advantage. Plus, heā€™s a southpaw with pop. Itā€™s like pouring sugar into a gas tank for Tszyu.

But heā€™s a very confident fellow.

ā€œHeā€™s got height but we all bleed the same blood,ā€ Tszyu said at the press conference.

Another world title fight pits WBA super lightweight titlist Rolly Romero (15-1) versus Isaac Cruz (25-2-1) in the semi-main event.

A third world title matches WBA middleweight titlist Erislandy Lara (29-3-3) against Michael Zerafa (31-4).

A fourth world title fight consists of WBC flyweight titlist Julio Cesar Martinez (20-3) fighting Angelino Cordova (18-0-1).

In an eliminator for the WBC super welterweight belt, Serhii Bohachuk (23-1) is now matched against Brian Mendoza (22-3) who replaces Fundora.

Itā€™s a solid fight card that will be shown onĀ PPV.COMĀ with Jim Lampley broadcasting and assisted by Lance Pugmire. They will also be texting the results and interacting with fans. Itā€™s their third boxing show.

Inglewood

Former super middleweight world titlist Gilberto ā€œZurdoā€ Ramirez (45-1) is moving up two weight divisions to challenge WBA cruiserweight champion Arsen Goulamirian (27-0, 19 Kos) on Saturday March 30, at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, Calif. DAZN will stream the Golden Boy Promotions card.

Goulamirian will be making the fifth defense of his title and recently added famed trainer Abel Sanchez to his corner. The former trainer of Gennady Golovkin and Serhii Bohachuk had retired for a few years but returned for the champ.

Itā€™s an interesting match.

Even more interesting was the announcement that Hollywood Park and Golden Boy Promotions signed an agreement beginning this Saturday to work together in bringing boxing events.

ā€œWe were the first to host an inaugural combat sports event at YouTube Theater in January 2023, and we couldnā€™t be more pleased to make history again by being the first to solidify a partnership deal of this magnitude with Hollywood Park,ā€ said Oscar De La Hoya the CEO for Golden Boy Promotions.

Itā€™s an interesting partnership.

One thing the promotion company needs is to add more female fighters to their company to break up the monotony of slow fight cards. It makes sense to add women to the boxing cards. They fight harder and Iā€™ve never seen women fights fail to excite the crowd, whereas Iā€™ve seen plenty of boring men fights on many a promotion.

Bring in female fighters.

When Zurdo fought at the Banc of California two years he brought very few fans compared to the two female fights that same night. The women draw a different crowd and surprise most fans with their energy.

Fights to Watch (all times Pacific Time)

Fri. ESPN+ 3:10 p.m. Oscar Valdez (31-2) vs Liam Wilson (13-2); Seniesa Estrada (25-0) vs Yokasta Valle (30-2).

Sat. DAZN 5 p.m. Gilberto Ramirez (45-1) vs Arsen Goulamirian (27-0).

Sat.Ā PPV.COMĀ 5 p.m. Tim Tszyu (24-0) vs Sebastian Fundora (20-1-1); Rolly Romero (15-1) vs Isaac Cruz (25-2-1); Erislandy Lara (29-3-3) vs Michael Zerafa (31-4); Serhii Bohachuk (23-1) vs Brian Mendoza (22-3).

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Results from Detroit where Carrillo, Ergashev and Shishkin Scored KOs

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Results from Detroit where Carrillo, Ergashev and Shishkin Scored KOs

Dmitriy Salita, who began promoting small club fights In Brooklyn at the former U.S. Navy airfield where he had his final pro fight, has found a welcome home in Detroit where he is working hard to resurrect the Motor City as an important fight destination. Although his shows are still low-budget (save for the money he spends on marketing; he uses heavyweight PR firm Swanson Communications), his new arrangement with DAZN can only move him another step up the pecking order.

Tonight, two of the most valuable pieces in his stable ā€“ junior lightweight Shohjahon Ergashev and super middleweight Vladimir Shishkin — were in action on Salitaā€™s second show at Detroitā€™s Watne State University Fieldhouse. However, Salita reserved the main event for one of his newest signees, Juan Carrillo, a light heavyweight who represented Colombia in the 2016 Rio Olympics.

In a battle of southpaws, Carrillo (12-0, 9 KOs) had no difficulty putting away Quinton Randall (21-9-2), a 37-year-old North Carolinian who had scored only five of his 21 wins against opponents with winning records. In the third frame, a big left uppercut put Randall on the canvas. He managed to get to his feet at the count of nine, but was on queer street and the fight was waived off. The official time was 0.27 of round three.

Ergashev

Shohjahon Ergashev, a southpaw from Uzbekistan who purportedly has 2.7 million Instagram followers in his home country, was making his first start since a failed bid to win the IBF 140-pound world title. Ergashev was stopped in the fifth round by Subriel Matias, his first defeat as a pro after opening his career 23-0 with 20 KOs.

Tonight, he got back on the winning track without breaking a sweat. A left hook to the body ended the fight in the opening round. His victim, Juan Antonio Huertas, a 31-year-old Panamanian, entered the fight with a 17-4 record, but was 0-2 on American soil and had been stopped both times.

Shishkin

A 32-year-old Russian who trains at the new Kronk Gym where SugarHill Steward holds forth when he is in town, Vladimir Shishkin entered the contest undefeated (15-0, 9 KOs) and ranked #2 by the IBF. How odd that his fight opened the telecast. Perhaps promoter Salita thought that the fight would be too one-sided and wanted to get it out of the way in a hurry. His opponent Mike Guy, 12-7-1 (5) heading in, had been in with some rough customers but was 43 years old, was inactive in all of 2022 and 2023, and had fought most of his career as a super middleweight.

The fight was one-sided in favor of Shishkin and rather dull until the Russian cracked up the juice in round seven and forced the stoppage.

In the future, we would encourage Dmitriy Salita to take some of that money he has been spending on marketing to find a higher caliber of ā€œB-Sideā€ opponents. The best thing about this show was that it was over in a hurry.

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R.I.P. IBF founder Bob Lee who was Banished from Boxing by the FBI

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ā€œThe image some people have of me is disappointing,ā€ said Bob Lee in a 2006 interview, ā€œbut I also feel I had a positive impact on the sportā€¦ā€

Lee, the founder of the International Boxing Federation who died yesterday (Sunday, March 24) at age 91, spoke those words to Philadelphia Daily News boxing writer Bernard Fernandez who was the first person to interview him when he emerged from a federal prison in 2006. Lee served 22 months on charges that included racketeering, money laundering, and tax evasion.

Born and raised in northern New Jersey and a lifelong resident of the Garden State, Lee, a former police detective, founded the International Boxing Federation (henceforth IBF) in 1983 after a failed bid to win the presidency of the World Boxing Association. At the time, there were only two relevant sanctioning bodies, the WBA, then headquartered in Venezuela, and the WBC, headquartered in Mexico. Both organizations were charged with favoring boxers from Spanish-speaking countries in their ratings at the expense of boxers from the United States.

Bob Leeā€™s brainchild, whose stated mission was to rectify that injustice, achieved instant credibility when Marvin Hagler and Larry Holmes turned their back on the established organizations. Haglerā€™s 1983 bout with Wilford Scypion and Holmesā€™ 1984 match with Bonecrusher Smith were world title fights sanctioned exclusively by the IBF, the last of the three extant organizations to do away with 15-round title fights.

Leeā€™s world was rocked in November of 1999 when a federal grand jury handed down an indictment that accused him and three IBF officials, including his son Robert W. ā€œRobbyā€ Lee Jr., of taking bribes from promoters and managers in return for higher rankings. The FBI, after a two-year investigation, concluded that $338,000 was paid over a 13-year period by individuals representing 23 boxers.

The governmentā€™s key witness was C. Douglas Beavers, the longtime chairman of the IBF ratings committee who wore a wire as a government informant in return for immunity and provided video-tape evidence of a $5000 payout in a seedy Virginia motel room. Promoters Bob Arum and Cedric Kushner both testified that they gave the IBF $100,000 to get the organizationā€™s seal of approval for a match between heavyweight champion George Foreman and Axel Schulz (Arum asserted that he paid the money through a middleman, Stan Hoffman). In return, the IBF gave Schulz a ā€œspecial exemptionā€ to its rules, allowing the German to bypass Michael Moorer who had a rematch clause that would never be honored. (In a sworn deposition, Big George testified that he had no knowledge of any kickback).

After a long-drawn-out trial that consumed four months including 15 days of jury deliberations, Bob Lee was acquitted on all but six of 32 counts. His son, charged with nine counts, was acquitted on all nine. The jury simply did not trust the veracity of many that testified for the prosecution. (No surprise there; after all, they were boxing people.) But neither did the jury buy into the argument that whatever money Lee received was in the form of gifts and gratuities, a common business practice.

The IBF was run by a court-appointed overseer from January of 2000 until the fall of 2003. Under its current head, Daryl Peoples, who came up from the ranks, assuming the presidency in 2010, the IBF has stayed out of the crosshairs of federal prosecutors.

As part of his sentence, Bob Lee was prohibited from having any further dealings with boxing and that would have included buying a ticket to sit in the cheap seats at a boxing card. This was adding insult to injury as Leeā€™s passion for boxing ran deep. As a boy working as a caddy at a New Jersey golf course, he had met Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, two of the proudest moments of his life.

As for his contributions to the sport, Lee had this to say in his post-prison talk with Bernard Fernandez: ā€œWe instituted the 168-pound [super middleweight] weight class. We took measures to reduce the incidence of eye injuries in boxing. We changed the weigh-in from the day of the fight to the day before, which prevented fighters from entering the ring so dehydrated that they were putting themselves at risk. All these things, and more, were tremendously beneficial to boxing. Iā€™m very proud of all that we accomplished.ā€

Bob Lee was a tough old bird. Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1986, he was insulin-dependent for much of his adult life and yet he lived into his nineties. Although his coloration as a shakedown artist is a stain that will never go away, many people will tell you that, on balance, he was a good man whose lapses ought not define him.

Thatā€™s not for us to judge. We send our condolences to his loved ones. May he rest in peace.

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