Top Rank -- New York’s most popular fighter, three-time world champion MIGUEL COTTO, returns to the Big Apple, risking his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight title, to take on International Boxing Federation (IBF) welterweight champion JOSHUA CLOTTEY in a rumble to determine the true world welterweight champion, Promoted by Top Rank, the Cotto vs. Clottey World Welterweight Championship will take place Saturday, June 13 at Madison Square Garden at 10:35 p.m. ET/ 7:35 p.m. PT.
Tickets to Cotto vs. Clottey, priced at $500, $300, $200, $100 and $50, can be purchased at the Garden Box Office.
“Clottey is a defensive boxer and a tough fighter,” said Cotto. “His record proves he belongs at the elite level of the welterweight division."
“I have always wanted to fight Miguel Cotto. It’s been a goal of mine for a long, long time. I can’t believe the opportunity is finally here,” said Clottey. “A victory over Cotto will give me the break in boxing I have been searching for. My time has finally arrived.”
Cotto (33-1, 27 KOs), from Caguas, Puerto Rico while Clottey (35-2, 21 KOs), is a native of Accra, Ghana.
WATCH HERE THE PUBLIC WORK-OUT of MIGUEL COTTO IN THE BRONX, NEW YORK on June 6, 2009.
