Cotto moves on without Mayweather (PA SportsTicker)
Published 7/24/2008 at Yahoo! Sports - Boxing News
The welterweight division lost boxing's best pound-for-pound fighter when Floyd Mayweather Jr. unexpectedly retired - for now - last month.
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