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For Puerto Ricans and worldwide boxing fanatics, this Cinco de Mayo was much more than eating tacos and
drinking margaritas. At 11pm that day, the most anticipated HBO PPV boxing fight
of 2012, Miguel Cotto vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr., took place. The Puerto Rican
Miguel Cotto
gave Mayweather a fight beyond expectation. It was a close fight and a tough
match. Cotto
trapped Floyd against the ropes throughout the fight and landed hard shots to
the head that for the first time ever, drew blood from Mayweather’s nose. But, Cotto’s effort was
not enough. It was Mayweather's ability to get his uppercuts and jabs in with
enough regularity to take most of the fight. Mayweather triumphed in a unanimous
decision and blew kisses to a booing and disproving crowd, while Cotto suffered
the third loss of his career.
Although a controversial fight, it was a classic boxing match where
at the end, one of the opponents wins. The curious thing about this fight,
looking at it in a Public Relations standpoint, was what happened after it. In
a regular sports competition of this caliber, the main event takes place, a
space is allowed for a few informal interviews, and immediately after, a press
conference is held with the former opponents. Nonetheless, after hearing the
judge’s decision, Miguel Cotto left the boxing ring and headed down to his room
without facing the media, refusing to attend the post-fight press conference. As
stated by El Nuevo Día, Puerto
Rico’s most important newspaper, Miguel Cotto returned to Puerto Rico yesterday
and even then, he didn’t talk to the media. The only public statement he gave was
through his Twitter account.
