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Mayweather Cotto Tickets – Fans of Floyd Mayweather, Jr. are now excited to see their idol back in action inside the ring after taking some break for several months after he defeated Victor Ortiz last November and successfully defended his WBC Welterweight championship belt. He is slated to be pitted against Miguel Cotto on May 5, 2012 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. People are gearing up to buy Mayweather vs Cotto tickets as this is the first time that the two boxers will be facing off. Cotto wants to be the first boxer to ever take down Mayweathe, whose scorecard remain untarnished after 42 fights since he became a professional boxer.
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The welterweight champ has decided to move up as he has decided to choose the middleweight titleholder as his next opponent after the megafight between Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao did not push through. Mayweather has then been looking another challenger and some of the names that were included on his list are Cotto, and the current WBC Light Middleweight titleholder and also an undefeated champion Saul Alvarez. But it came as no surprise when they went with Cotto as he was the leading fighter in the pack. Also, besides Mayweather and Pacquiao, the Puerto Rican boxer is one of the biggest draws in pay-per-view revenues.
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The diehard boxing fans are surely set to line up for hours just to grab hold of the Mayweather vs Cotto Tickets as this will surely become the hottest tickets in town once it will become available. These will probably sell out like pancakes as Mayweather will not be going inside the ring for quite some time. Mayweather will be serving his 90 days sentence for battery filed by his former girlfriend Josie Harris back in September of 2010. He has reached a deal with the judge after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanour battery in exchange that the prosecutors will drop the felony battery charge. He also pleaded no contest to the two counts of misdemeanour harassment which stemmed after Mayweather threatened that he will beat his kids. And in addition to serving his jail time he was also ordered to have 100 hours of community service, a 12-month domestic violence program, and have a fine of $2,500. The controversial boxer was supposed to be sent in prison this March but he able to reach an agreement with the judge and postponed serving his sentence in June as he pleaded that he will be having a fight this summer. That is why Mayweather will not be seen inside the ring for a long, long time. And those who are waiting to catch Mayweather and Pacquiao to duke it out will just have to wait a much longer time, if ever they would ever meet a compromise.

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One of the reasons that the Mayweather and Pacquiao fight did not push through was the Olympic style drug testing done by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Mayweather demanded to have random drug sampling, which he usually demanded from his previous opponents, but Pacquiao does not agree as he defended that he gets week if he has his blood tested a few days before the fight. The Filipino boxer wanted the drug testing to be scheduled and it will have a 20-day window before the schedule of the fight and another test after the match. Mayweather does not want this and the negotiations soon fell through even after a mediation donne by the judge. But on the upcoming fight, both Mayweather and Cotto have agreed to have a random blood and urine sampling. There was not much stumbling in the negotiations for the fight.

Mayweather is one of the biggest names in the world of boxing he is currently considered as the number one pound for pound fighter in the world by most sporting news and boxing sites, which include Sports Illustrated ESPN, Fox Sports, Yahoo Sports, and About.com. He ousted Pacquiao at the top spot last December, who has been number 1 for several years. He has won the Best Fighter Award at the ESPYs for three times, 2007, 2008, and 2010. He was also included in the list of Boxing’s Most Influential by Yahoo Sports. In 2001, he was inducted in World Boxing hall of Fame as Fighter of the Year. He was also named as Fighter of the Year by the Ring Magazine in 1998 and 2007. He has defeated some of the biggest names in boxing like Oscar de la Hoya, Shane Mosley, Ricky Hatton, and Juan Manuel Marquez.

Meanwhile, Cotto is the reigning WBA Super light middleweight champion. He is a four-time world champion in three different weight divisions. He has a scorecard of 37 wins, 2 losses, and 0 draws, with 30 wins via knockouts. He has fought against Mosley, Pacquiao, Margarito, and Clottey. And now fans are anxiously waiting to have Mayweather vs Cotto tickets to catch them both in action.


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