Catchweights- good or bad for boxing?

catchweight is fine. it makes it possible to see 2 fighters in different division fight each other.

 

nobody is being forced to agree to it.

 

I don't mind it when it is needed for 2 fighters from different weight classes to have a bout.

However, I never think a title should be on the line during a catchweight bout. Full weight limit or not for the title in my view. You can fight for pride and money if you don't want to fight at the full weight limit for the belt.

 

I am tired of catchweights, if Cotto is going to pretend to be the 160 lb. champion, he should fight at 160.....................I knew Cotto would refused to fight Golovkin, mandatory of not. Golovkin knocked Geale out, so Cotto decided to fight Geale..............what a crock of ****...................

 

Bad, almost categorically, without exception.

 

**** that. One can move up or the other down, or else tough **** we don't get to see it.

 

:good :deal

 

think about that long and hard and i'm sure you'd change your mind.

 

No.

One up, the other down, or I don't care.

 

oscar-hopkins
pwill-sergio
pac-cotto
floyd-canelo
chavez-whittaker
pac-margarito
pac-jmm3 and 4

.....these fights wouldn't have happened.

 

Both fighters had already competed at the full middleweight limit so no catchweight should have been needed.

Both fighters had already competed at the full middleweight limit (against each other, no less) so no catchweight should have been needed.

Both fighters had already competed at the full welterweight limit, so no catchweight should have been needed.

Both fighters had already competed at the full junior middleweight limit, so no catchweight should have been needed.

The first case from your list where a guy was moving up and it was over 20 years ago.

Oh boy what a pity it would have been to have missed out on this most necessary fight!

3 was a catchweight simply because Golden Boy could match the rights to Marquez's next fight. 4 was not a catchweight fight.

Literally most of your list supports the idea that catchweights are most often used these days as a way for the bigger draw to gain an advantage. This is pretty much the only interpretation for what Oscar, Pacquiao, Mayweather, and Williams did when insisting on catchweights at divisions they had already competed in.

 

Good. Jumping up and down weight divisions repeatedly is NOT good for your health. Look what happened to Jones.