Cotto on fight with Pac. "Nothing less than 145-pounds. I'm not willing to fight [Manny Pacquiao] below 145-pounds," Smart move by Cotto. Money isn't everything. Cotto can make plenty of money without having to resort to starving himself to make wieght just so that he can get the Oscar treatment against Pac.
“It’s really up to Manny at what weight he’d like to fight Cotto, if at all,” said Koncz to The Philippine Star . “We are told Cotto is agreeable to fight at a catchweight limit of 144. Manny might want to bring it down to 142." Cotto says that he won't risk his health for a multi-million dollar payday. "Nothing less than 145-pounds. I'm not willing to fight [Manny Pacquiao] below 145-pounds."