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Saturday, 11 p.m. ET -- Top Rank 1, Golden Boy, 0 Marco Antonio Rubio surged late to take a split decision over Enrique Ornelas. That's one win for Top Rank over Golden Boy guys in their direct match-ups. Not that anyone is counting. Steven Luev...

Blog | Conversation | October 18, 2008

Saturday, 9:50 p.m. ET -- Et tu, Brute? Marco Antonio Rubio is fighting Enrique Ornelas and the winner supposedly becomes mandatory chllanger for Kelly Pavlik's WBC middleweight title. I think it's cool that so many Mexican boxers are named Marco...

Blog | Conversation | October 18, 2008

Thursday, 1:30 ET -- What rivalry? Not all fights on the undercard are created to fuel a rivalry. Richard Schaefer, Golden Boy's CEO, says Marco Antonio Rubio-Enrique Ornelas is a mandatory fight for a crack at a title, while Steven Luevano-Billy D...

Blog | Conversation | October 16, 2008

Saturday, 9:55 p.m. ET -- Who's on top? The crowd seems split more or less evenly between Antonio Margarito fans and Miguel Cotto ones, I think. Hard to tell: Each guy gets a mixture of cheers and jeers when his image appears on the big screens in t...

Blog | Conversation | July 26, 2008

Friday, 5:05 p.m. ET -- There's the other guy Not long after seeing Antonio Margarito amble slowly through the casino, I turned a corner while walking along with Lee Samuels, Top Rank's ace PR guy, and who should we bump into but Miguel Cotto and te...

Blog | Conversation | July 25, 2008

Friday, 5:30 p.m. ET -- To sell a fight It takes all kinds of little touches to sell a fight. Top Rank has provided each camp with a bus for this fight; one with the image and name of Antonio Margarito on the side, one with Miguel Cotto, and both ad...

Blog | Conversation | July 25, 2008

Friday, 2:20 p.m. ET -- How's Harold to know? I asked HBO's unofficial official, Harold Lederman, who he thought would win tomorrow night's fight between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito. "I have no idea who's going to win," he said. "All I know ...

Blog | Conversation | July 25, 2008

Friday, 10:35 a.m. ET -- The Bert and Kieran show Listen to your faithful blogger expound on the Miguel Cotto-Antonio Margarito fight in conversation with "Uncle" Bert Sugar on Sugar's HBO boxing podcast. (And then be sure to listen to him as he sha...

Blog | Conversation | July 25, 2008

Jueves, 9:10pm ET-- Las predicciones de Bert Cuan importante es el choque del sabado entre Miguel Cotto y Antonio Margarito? "Es la mayor pelea de peso welter desde la de Ray Leonard y Tommy Hearns", afirma el historiador y bon vivant de ESPN.com,...

Blog | Conversation | July 24, 2008

Thursday, 5:25 p.m. ET -- More from Ray Leonard I asked Ray Leonard what he thought Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito were going through and thinking, just two days away from the biggest fights of their careers. "You know, it's really strange," he...

Blog | Conversation | July 24, 2008

Thursday, 5:15 p.m. ET -- Sugar Ray Leonard answers your questions [sort of] Kennedy Clark in Dallas asks: "With Antonio Margarito's attacking style of offense, do you think this will work to his advantage or to his detriment?" My answer would be t...

Blog | Conversation | July 24, 2008

Thursday, 9:10 a.m. ET -- Bert's predictions How big is Saturday's clash between Miguel Cotto and Antonio Margarito? "It's the biggest welterweight fight since Ray Leonard and Tommy Hearns," reckons ESPN.com's own historian and bon vivant Bert Suga...

Blog | Conversation | July 24, 2008

Miercoles, 8:20pm ET-- El Tornado de Tijuana aconseja Logica pura: Puerto Rico aplaude a Miguel Cotto. En la isla caribena, sin embargo, hay una marcada comunidad de mexicanos que favorece a Antonio Margarito. Aztecas y boricuas coexisten sobre un m...

Blog | July 23, 2008

Wednesday, 6:50 p.m. ET -- I didn't say that Miguel Cotto bristled a little Tuesday when told that Antonio Margarito reportedly had said he would knock him out in four rounds. Today, Margarito backed off that prediction, saying it was a lighthearted...

Blog | Conversation | July 23, 2008

Wednesday, 6:30 p.m. ET -- Who's being avoided? Asked today whether he felt Miguel Cotto had faced better opponents than he had, Antonio Margarito suggested that Cotto merely had faced better names. "They were good victories, but I would have like...

Blog | Conversation | July 23, 2008

Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. ET -- Fashionistas It looked as if Miguel Cotto scored an early victory over Antonio Margarito on Wednesday. Whereas Cotto showed up to talk to media members styling a tailored suit, Margarito was wearing shorts, sandals and a T...

Blog | Conversation | July 23, 2008