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MIGUEL COTTO and ANTONIO MARGARITO LOS ANGELES NEWS CONFERENCE LUNCHEON FOR THEIR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP REMATCH
PhilBoxing.com Fri, 23 Sep 2011
Today! Thursday, September 22 at Noon PT Wilshire Grand Los Angeles ? Pacific Ballroom
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
LOS ANGELES (September 22, 2011) -- Three-division world champion and the Pride of Puerto Rico MIGUEL COTTO, professional rival and three-time welterweight world champion ANTONIO ?The Tijuana Tornado? MARGARITO, of M?xico, and Hall of Fame promoter BOB ARUM will host a Los Angeles news conference luncheon Today! Thursday, September 22, in the Pacific Ballroom at the Wilshire Grand Los Angeles (930 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90017.) The luncheon will begin at Noon PT with the news conference starting at 12:30 p.m. PT. They will be announcing their long-awaited world championship rematch. Cotto (36-2, 29 KOs), from Caguas, Puerto Rico, will defend his World Boxing Association (WBA) super welterweight title against Margarito (38-7, 27 KOs), of Tijuana, M?xico, Saturday, December 3, at The Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden.
The press conference will be open to the public.
Promoted by Top Rank, in association with Cotto Promotions, Tornado Promotions, AT&T, Tecate and Madison Square Garden, Cotto-Margarito II will be broadcast Live on Pay-Per-View and produced and distributed by HBO Pay-Per-View?.
Los Angeles is the final stop of the Cotto-Margarito II four-city media tour which began Monday in Puerto Rico and continued on to New York and M?xico City.
Remaining tickets to Cotto-Margarito II, priced at $600, $400, $300, $200, $100, and $50 including applicable service charges, can be purchased at the Madison Square Garden box office, online at www.thegarden.com and all Ticketmaster outlets, which charges an additional fee.
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