Pacquiao's catchweights

Who knows, you take the Pac from the Cotto fight and match him against the Floyd from the Mosley fight and you a 50/50 type scrap.

 

Floyd knew, for one. That's why he introduced all these obstacles to the fight. ODLH, Hatton, and Cotto performances spooked him.

 

Who had...

• Ultra low T/E ratios consistent w/ doping
• Privately contracted drug testing
• Late fight announcements (control when testing started)
• Avoided VADA testing
• Refused $5 million drug test penalty
• Used illegal IV fluids

... FloydRoid?

 

Pac should have taken the test. Took him 5 years to finally agree to it. I know what youre going to respond with.

 

Pac did agree to take the test.

 

I dont give a F about Floyd. is this a Floyd or Pacroid thread? Its for Pacroid.

 

You're a broke beta simp Mayweather fan. Why even bother trying to deny it?

 

What you on about you gimp? Nobody mentioned Floyd. Stop being butthurt, Pac aint going marry you man give up the idol worship.

 

I don't mind catchweights, as long as there isn't a title on the line, forcefully hampering the challenger or the beltholder.
Because that's what happened a lot in the past 15 years or so.
The big name telling the lesser name he can't get the fight (money, fame, honor) if he doesn't comply to a hampering weightlimit.

 

Glad you mentioned this. It doesn't get brought up enough when people discuss Leonard's greatness. Imagine if Canelo fought Kovalev in 2019 for both the WBO super middleweight and WBO light heavyweight titles, contested at 168lbs - there would be outrage. In fact the Duran 2, 3, Hagler, Hearns 2 and of course Lalonde bouts all had shenanigans

 

Altough in 88 the super middleweight division was just created.
I dont think any of the catchweights had any impact on those fights.

 

Pac v Oscar was a CW? It was fought at the limit of 147. That's just WW, not a CW. CW's are typically seen as a limit between the upper and lower limits of the weight class.

Pac and ODLH simply fought at WW.

 

Every weight limit that wasnt on the dot of a division limit is a catchweight. That goes all the way back to Henry Amrstrong and before.

Sometimes they are lame. Sometimes they are logical. Sometimes both. Case by case basis on where exactly they fall.