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Boxer Miguel Cotto poses for
a portrait, Tuesday, Oct. 17,
2017, in New York.
Associated Press
Cotto bids

farewell

to ring,

embraces

family

By RICARDO ZUNIGA
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The usu-
ally stoic Miguel Cotto gets
emotional thinking about
all the important fam-
ily moments he missed in
two decades as a boxer.
Countless hours in the gym,
training to become a four-
time world champion, kept
him away from his wife and
four children for weeks and
months at a time.
No more after this fight.
Cotto will bid farewell to
the ring when he faces
Sadam Ali on Dec. 2 in
Madison Square Garden
— his “second home,” as
he calls it, where he will
fight for the 10th time to
finish his career. After 46
action-packed bouts in
four weight classes, the
36-year-old Puerto Rican Yankees blank Astros, take 3-2 series lead
said he has no regrets
about this decision to call
it quits, and is looking for-
ward to making up for lost
time with his wife Melissa New York Yankees’ Gary Sanchez is congratulated
and his children, ages 10 by Didi Gregorius (18) after hitting a home run
to 21. during the seventh inning of Game 5 of baseball’s
“I’ve missed birthdays, American League Championship Series against the
graduations ... you name Houston Astros Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in New
it,” a teary Cotto said Tues- York.
day in an interview with Associated Press
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