News - Antonio Margarito

Kermit Cintron is wrapping up his training camp at the Kronk Gym in Detroit and will leave Tuesday for New York City where a press conference will take place on Wednesday for the Cotto-Gomez / Cintron-Margarito fight card on Saturday April 12th in Atlantic City. Cintron is eager to defend his IBF welterweight title against the only man to have defeated him, Antonio Margarito, and to avenge the only blemish on his record read more ...

There are some strange reports coming out of the popular Puerto Rican paper, El Nuevo Dia. The first is claiming that Ricardo Mayorga (29-6, 23 KOs) has signed a contract to fight Miguel Cotto (31-0, 25 KOs) on July 19 with HBO pay-per-view televising. The information is coming from Mayorga himself, who may be telling the truth or simply hyping himself in position for a fight with Cotto read more ...

A rematch between IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron and former WBO titleholder Antonio Margarito has been signed for the Miguel Cotto-Alphonso Gomez card planned for April in New York City. Should Cotto beat Gomez, the winner of Cintron-Margarito will likely face Cotto in July read more ...

IBF welterweight champion Kermit Cintron announced today his desire to avenge his only professional loss by calling out Antonio Margarito. Cintron, who lost to Margarito in April of 2005, is ready to fight Margarito now! "Right now, I'm a world champion and he's not. If he thinks he's the best, come and get my belt. I have it and he's saying he wants it so let's get it on....I was coming off a 9 month layoff, hand surgery read more ...

Former WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (35-5, 26 KOs) impressively crushed Golden Johnson (25-9-3, 18 KOs) in round one to claim the vacant WBO intercontinental welterweight title. In his first bout since losing his title to Paul Williams, Margarito wanted to start fast and he did, dropping the outgunned Johnson three times before referee Wayne Kelley stopped the bout at 2:28 read more ...

A win over Golden Johnson gets me what I want and deserve - a shot against the winner of Cotto-Mosley," says former WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito. Margarito (34-5, 25 KOs), from Tijuana, Mexico, will be taking on Johnson (25-8-3, 18 KOs) on the big November 10 Cotto-Mosley PPV card at Madison Square Garden in New York City read more ...

WBO welterweight champion Antonio Margarito (34-4, 24 KOs) and unbeaten mandatory challenger Paul Williams (32-0, 24 KOs) participated in a national conference call today to discuss their upcoming, long-awaited showdown at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. on July 14. "I've faced tougher opponents and tougher fighters," stated Margarito. "I feel very confident I'll be victorious in this fight...if Paul Williams read more ...

This is a mandatory defense for Margarito (34-4 w/ 24KO's) against the undefeated Williams (32-0 w/ 24KO's) and it will be the eighth defense of his WBO Welterweight Championship. The fight is being billed as "Pride and Punishment" a reference to the pride of the champion, Margarito, and the nickname of the challenger, Williams read more ...

Fightnews.com caught up with WBO welterweight champ Antonio Margarito (34-4, 24 KOs) on Monday night as he enjoyed the fights at El Palenque Theatre in his native Tijuana, MX. Margarito was present to show his support to hometown favorite Jackie Nava as she prepares herself for her upcoming rematch for the WBC super bantamweight title in Argentina. As always, the cordial and friendly "Tony" did not hesitate to attend to every autograph read more ...

In a total war, Miguel Cotto (28-0, 23 KOs) won the WBA welterweight title with a spectacular five round demolition of previously unbeaten Carlos Quintana (23-1, 18 KOs). Quintana came to fight and gave as good as he got early, but Cotto's power turned the tide. Cotto dropped Quintana with a huge left hook to the liver in round five and Quintana barely beat the count. Cotto dropped him again with a barrage and Quintana almost didn't make read more ...