"Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez" is a Puerto Rican people/Puerto Rican professional boxing/professional boxer. He is the first and only Puerto Rican to win titles in 4 different weight classes and is the current Transnational Boxing Rankings Board, World Boxing Council/WBC & The Ring (magazine)/The Ring List of middleweight boxing champions/World Middleweight Champion. As an amateur, Cotto represented Puerto Rico in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions at various international events including the 1999 Pan American Games, the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 1998 Junior World Championships where he won a silver medal. Cotto began his professional career in 2001, and on September 11, 2004, he defeated Kelson Pinto for the WBO junior welterweight championship. He defended the title successfully a total of six times, before vacating it when he ascended to the welterweight division.

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I started to work on him with the first ring of the bell. It wasn't an easy fight, it was a tough fight.

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He did not hurt me. He had his good punches but this was our night. He came to try and use his style, to try to block and then punch.

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