MIGUEL COTTO claimed he had answered his critics after stopping Yuri Foreman in the ninth round of their fight at Yankee Stadium to claim the WBA light-middleweight title.

FIGHT fans eager for boxing’s return to Yankee Stadium will have to wait a little longer tonight as Israeli world champion Yuri Foreman puts the Sabbath top of his priority list.

IRISH light-middleweight boxer James Moore is confident he can take full advantage of a second shot at the big time when he faces Pawel Wolak at Yankee Stadium tomorrow night.

THIRTY FOUR years after boxing’s last headline act at Yankee Stadium saw Muhammad Ali handed a controversial points victory over Ken Norton, the sport is preparing to return to the venue tomorrow night.

Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones last night welcomed the opportunity to host world championship boxing at the new Cowboys Stadium after Manny Pacquiao and Joshua Clottey’s welterweight clash was confirmed for March 13 in Texas.

MATTHEW MACKLIN and Andy Lee could touch gloves sometime next year according to the European champion who meets Rafa Sosa Pintos on Saturday night’s televised Sierra Fight Night at the National Stadium.

TRAINER Freddie Roach has put Floyd Mayweather Jr firmly in his sights as the next opponent for his victorious charge Manny Pacquiao.

Manny Pacquiao was delighted to have claimed another bigger opponent as a victim following his impressive 12th-round stoppage of welterweight title-holder Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas.

MIGUEL COTTO will step into the ring tonight determined not to become another footnote in Manny Pacquiao’s rise to boxing superstardom.

Manny Pacquiao will fight three-time world champion Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas on November 14, their promoter announced today.

MIGUEL COTTO will seek to make his case as boxing’s new top fighter when he takes on Mexican Antonio Margarito at the MGM Grand Garden Arena tonight.

THEY may have spent the last three months winding each other up, pouring scorn on their rival’s talents and rubbishing each other’s prospects for success in tonight’s WBC welterweight title fight but if there is one thing that both the Mayweather and Hatton camps agree on, it is that boxing is once again back in the big time.

ONLY a big fight night in the Big Apple can start with Don King in a Santa Claus outfit and end with a promoter and his boxer both staking claims to fight the same man.

WBA Welterweight champion Miguel Cotto retained his title and his unbeaten record at Madison Square Garden as he held off a spirited challenge from four-time former world champion Sugar Shane Mosley on Saturday night.

IRISH Ropes are lining up two more stern tests for John Duddy after the Derryman came through the successful defence of his WBC Continental Americas title in New York at the weekend.

Miguel Cotto has backed light-welterweight kingpin Kostya Tszyu to knock out Ricky Hatton in what he believes will be a “one-sided fight”.

Exciting Puerto Rican light-welterweight Miguel Cotto is willing to travel to England to fight Ricky Hatton, according to his promoter Bob Arum.