Description
Miguel �ngel Cotto V�zquez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer. He is the first and only Puerto Rican to win titles in 4 different weight classes and is the current Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, WBC & The Ring World Middleweight Champion. As an amateur, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 1998 Junior World Championships where he won a silver medal. Cotto began his professional career in 2001, and on September 11, 2004, he defeated Kelson Pinto for the WBO junior welterweight championship. He defended the title successfully a total of six times, before vacating it when he ascended to the welterweight division.
On his first match on this division he defeated Carlos Quintana for the vacant WBA welterweight championship. Cotto successfully defended this title against Oktay Urkal, Zab Judah, Shane Mosley and Alfonso G�mez, before losing it to Antonio Margarito. On February 21, 2009, he defeated Michael Jennings to win the vacant WBO welterweight championship.
Born
October 29th, 1980 in Caguas (Age 44)
Last Changes
2021/12/16
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2020/07/27
New Scanned Autograph (In-P/Authentic (In-Person))
2018/03/01
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