Miguel Cotto leaving boxing on his terms with title fight

NEW YORK (AP) — Miguel Cotto is a boxing icon in Puerto Rico. In New York City, too.

On Saturday night, the most popular boxer of his generation from the Caribbean island that has produced so many champions will finish off his terrific career at Madison Square Garden with — what else? — a title fight.

Cotto has fought nine times in what New Yorkers like to call "the mecca of boxing," and every one of those bouts was a main event. He has won the night before the Puerto Rico Day parade in Manhattan, when thousands of his fans who attended the fight then celebrated the holiday.

He has won in Yankee Stadium, too, and at Barclays Center and the Hammerstein Ballroom.