Today at 2:30 pm EDT, you can watch live right here on Bad Left Hook as Miguel Cotto and Sergio Martinez take to the scales for their Saturday night middleweight championship fight on HBO pay-per-view from Madison Square Garden.
Cotto (38-4, 31 KO) is moving up to middleweight for the first time, and the bout's 159-pound catchweight limit is really nothing more than Cotto enforcing a one-pound drop because he can. Martinez (51-2-2, 38 KO) is the defending champion, but also the B-side of the fight promotionally, and there are concerns about his health -- in particular, a bad knee -- as he hasn't fought since having physical issues against Julio Cesar Chavez Jr in September 2012, and then Martin Murray in April 2013.
The undercard will feature a rematch between super bantamweights Wilfredo Vazquez Jr (23-3-1, 19 KO) of Puerto Rico and Marvin Sonsona (18-1-1, 15 KO) of the Philippines; Andy Lee (32-2, 22 KO) facing John Jackson (18-1, 15 KO) in a junior middleweight clash; and Jorge Melendez (28-3-1, 26 KO) against Javier Maciel (28-3, 20 KO) of Argentina.