José Miguel Cotto
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| Real name | José Miguel Cotto Vázquez | ||||||||||||
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Super bantamweight Featherweight Super featherweight Lightweight Light welterweight Welterweight Light middleweight |
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| Height | 5 ft 5.5 in (1.66 m) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | Puerto Rican | ||||||||||||
| Born |
June 22, 1977 Caguas, Puerto Rico |
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 38 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 33 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 24 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 4 | ||||||||||||
| Draws | 1 | ||||||||||||
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José Miguel Cotto Vázquez (born June 22, 1977) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and a four-time regional level champion. He is the brother of five-time world boxing champion Miguel Cotto and the cousin of lightweight contender Abner Cotto.
In 1995 as an amateur, he participated at the Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina, and won a silver medal. A year later he represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics, where he was defeated in the first round.
He won the WBC Youth World super bantamweight title in August 20, 2000, a split decision win against a capable young Fernando Velardez (who would later fight Mexican legend Erik Morales for Morales' WBC Featherweight title).
On July 25, 2003, Cotto was supposed to fight in Phoenix, Arizona. However, his opponent had trouble getting a license to fight, as he had been knocked out recently and was serving a 45-day suspension from another state. The Arizona boxing commission was not able to find Cotto an opponent in time and the fight got cancelled.
On September 9, at his native Caguas, Cotto finally returned to action, with a first-round knockout win over Johnny Walker. On December 19, he fought Anthony Martinez in Aibonito, winning by an eighth-round knockout.
Cotto moved to Phoenix early in 2004. On April 14 of that year he stopped Mexican Luis Lizarraga at two minutes and thirty seven seconds of the first round to win the regional, International Boxing Council (IBC) Intercontinental super featherweight title. He has also won the vacant WBO intercontinental super featherweight title during his fight with Genaro Trazancos.
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