Miguel Cotto of Puerto Rico is signing a contract to join the growing boxing stable of Roc Nation Sport, hip-hop artist Jay Z’s sports agency. Roc Nation Sports’ recently added contender Andre Ward to their line-up and the two boxers are some of the many sports stars who are now part of Jay-Z’s team.

Percy Crawford of FightHype.com confirmed Cotto’s deal with Roc Nation and stated that the Puerto Rican will reveal it officially by Thursday on ESPN’s First Take. Crawford also said that the move has “left a sour taste in the mouth of Top Rank President Todd duBoef”. Cotto was previously under contract with Top Rank in the past years.

Other athletes to be promoted by Roc Nation Sports are Major League Baseball’s CC Sabathia, Rusney Castillo, Yoenis Cespedis and Robinson Cano, National Football League’s Dez Bryant, Geno Smith, Hakeem Nicks, Jalen Strong and Ndamukong Suh, National Basketball Association’s Kevin Durant, Wilson Chanlder and James Young and Women’s National Basketball Association’s Skylar Diggins.

Cotto was initially scheduled to fight Canelo Alvarez in May but both parties failed to agree on the negotiations early in 2015. Alvarez will fight James Kirkland on May 9 leaving Cotto without a scheduled bout for 2015. Top Rank reportedly tried to pit him against contender Timothy Bradley, who also fights under Bob Arum’s promotional outfit, but that plan is temporarily shelved with Cotto’s move to Roc Nation Sports.

Cotto was also pegged as one of the possible opponents for Floyd Mayweather before the American decided to take the fight against Manny Pacquiao.

Cotto, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States but resides in Caguas, Puerto Rico, has a record of 39 wins with 32 knockouts against 4 losses in his pro career. After back-to-back losses in 2012 to Mayweather and Austin Trout, he has won two straight bouts against Delvin Rodriguez in 2013 and Sergio Gabriel Martinez in 2014 when he won the World Boxing Council world middleweight title after Rodriquez retired in the 10th round.

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