Cotto; The Puerto Rican Punchers Prevail on HBO
By Benny Henderson Jr, AKA Big Dog (March 4, 2007) Doghouse Boxing (Photo © German Villasenor)
Can you ask, who’s next? Well ask it or not that question was answered last night on HBO’s showdown main event throw down of the night when undefeated WBA welterweight champion Miguel Cotto 29-0 (24) continued his winning ways with an eleventh round TKO over roughhouse German Oktay Urkal 38-4 (12).

Longtime contender Urkal gave his all during spurts of the bout, but was met with some heavy body punishment from the champion Cotto that slowed the German down a bit.

Cotto, known for his punishing power, wore down the former contender in championship fashion and after some chastising of the former contender Cotto as awarded the W via an eleventh round TKO when Urkal’s corner threw on the towel.

Urkal, who has banged in forty-two bouts in his eleven year career, has some reassessing to do while the twenty-six year old Cotto seemingly will take a swing at former welterweight champion Zab Judah in the near future.

In the opener of the night, a much-anticipated throw down between the former unbeaten Allan Green 23-1 (16) and once-beaten Columbian Edison Miranda 28-1 (24) came down to the scorecards. The Puerto Rican-based Columbian ‘Pantera’ took the early rounds outscoring the Oklahoman by beating ‘Sweetness’ to the punch in an early chess match of a bout. Green found his way and landed a solid signature left hook that dropped Miranda in the eighth round but was met with some serious resistance.

Miranda rose back in the ninth round and tenth round landing some series leather, rocking and dropping his foe in the tenth and final round to go ahead and gain the hard earned W by scores of 97 90, 96-91 and 96-91 to give the Columbian his second straight victory.

This is the first L on the Oklahoman’s record who will now regroup, but the twenty-six year old Miranda moves on to bigger and better things.
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