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COTTO VS. MARTINEZ MEDIA TOUR KICKS OFF MARCH 10 IN PUERTO RICO

By Press Release | February 24, 2014
COTTO VS. MARTINEZ MEDIA TOUR KICKS OFF MARCH 10 IN PUERTO RICO

Three-division world champion and the Pride of Puerto Rico MIGUEL COTTO and World Boxing Council (WBC)/The Ring middleweight champion and Argentina's favorite son SERGIO "Maravilla" MARTÍNEZ, will begin their promotional roadwork on Monday, March 10 with a four-city, two-hemisphere media tour to announce their eagerly-anticipated fight for the World Middleweight Championship.   Cotto vs. Martínez will take place on Saturday, June 7, at the "Mecca of Boxing," Madison Square Garden.  The fight will be produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®, beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET/6:00 p.m. PT.

Cotto will attempt to become Puerto Rico's first four-division world champion while Martínez, who has never lost a world championship fight, defends the title he first won in 2010.  Both gladiators boast a combined record of 89-6-2 (59 KOs) – a winning percentage of 92% and a victory by knockout ratio of 66%.

The media tour is as follows with full details being released shortly:

  • Monday, March 10 - Puerto Rico
  • Tuesday, March 11 - New York
  • Wednesday, March 12 - Los Angeles
  • TBD - Buenos Aires
Promoted by Miguel Cotto Promotions, Top Rank®, DiBella Entertainment and Sampson Boxing, in association with Maravilla Box, Tecate and Madison Square Garden, tickets to the Cotto vs. Martínez world middleweight championship event go on sale Wednesday, March 12, at Noon ET / 9:00 A.M. PT.  Priced at $750, $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50, tickets can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, Ticketmaster charge by phone (866-858-0008), and online at www.ticketmaster.com and www.thegarden.com.

For fight updates go to www.toprank.comwww.hbo.com/boxing, www.dbe1.com, www.sampsonboxing.comwww.promocionesmiguelcotto.com and www.maravillabox.com,  Facebook at facebook.com/trboxing, facebook.com/trboxeo, facebook.com/DiBellaentertainment, facebook.com/TopRankMiguelCotto, facebook.com/maravillabox, and  facebook.com/hboboxing, and on Twitter at twitter.com/trboxing, twitter.com/trboxeo, twitter.com/dibellaent, twitter.com/SampsonBoxing,  twitter.com/hboboxing, twitter.com/realmiguelcotto or twitter.com/maravillabox. Use the Hashtag #CottoMartinez to join the conversation on Twitter.

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