What's wrong with Catchweights?

Nothing. Some fans are just fans of a particular fighter or a couple of fighters and come up with "excues" just in case their fighter looses. Some actually are worried about draining a fighter and should PAC win not getting full credit. But at the end of the day Catch weights are good for the sport...its good to have a tool to even out a match when fighters are from different weight classes. Cotto won't have ANY PROBLMES making or ad******g training camp to meet 145. He had no problems making 146 against Josh who was BIGGER and Stronger than Cotto and Cotto on fight night will be much bigger and stronger than PAC.

Whoever wins it will be based on fighting the better fight...nothing more nothing less. I feel PAC is just a better fighter overall and feel he'll beat Cotto but this is boxing....Cotto definitley has a great chance at beating PAC as well. Play your odds and hope your prediction is the right one. That's all you can do in a fight like this one. No one will be at a disadvantage except for PAC who is smaller. But he's still making the fight happen so you gotta give him props and people need to stop trying to diminish a win that hasn't even happened nor is guranteed for PAC.

 

why not 147 then??? obviously there is a difference...the weight class is 147...fight at 147, why 145? 2 LBS???

 

In most cases i hate them. There is enough weight divisions, with tint temporary sub divisions as well.

Also it gives people the impresion that one fighter is trying to get an unfair advantage over another. I think catch weights ae uneccersary, but they can help negotiations 'sometimes'. As long as the best fights get made nobody cares...

 

There is a difference...its called Cotto is a WW and PAC is a Jr WW...Hence "meeting at a Catch weight". Simple logic that some people have a hard time comprehending. It's not physics!

 

No more than an advantage due to size and strength. Look....its a fight against a BIG guy vs a Small guy. That is an advantage for the larger fighter. All a catch weight does is makes it a more even playing field for the smaller fighter. What the problem is??

 

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IF you can't fit into one of the SEVENTEEN existing weight categories, find a different sport.


IF Pac wants to fight at 145, fine. Let him.

But that's in the welterwt category.

What's the problem with him coming in at 145 and Cotto coming in at 147 ?

Will those two extra pounds turn Cotto into Superman ?



Pac gets great credit for the Oscar win at 147. If that had been at a catchweight, the victory would have been diluted and denigrated.


If Pac wins at a catchweight, do you want to hear the haters put out the 'weight-drained' excuse ?

And do you want Pac to earn a belt for this fight ?

For Pac, it would be like climbing Mount Everest and turning back a hundred feet from the top.

If he can win at 145, he can probably win at 147.



We already have about twice as many weight categories as we need.

 

If the fighters think that it's worth negotiating and banging heads over for weeks, then I think it's worth discussing in a forum where people come to talk about everything related to boxing. If a few pounds didn't make a difference then catchweights wouldn't exist.

 

BIG differnece. Rick and Cotto felt they HAD to jump up to a higher weight class b/c of their "Struggles" making weight at 140. PAC doesn't struggle to make weight at 140 or 135 for that matter. Cotto wants to fight him and PAC wants to fight Cotto so they are doing it at a catch weight which is not ridicoulous. These are men who are at different weights, who are comfortable at their respective weights.

 

I don't think that anyone feels that the catchweight is ridiculous. Just that if you don't want to fight a 147 lb miguel cotto you don't deserve a 147 pound title.

 

Exactly.

 

What's wrong is that for two about two decent cheeseburgers, Roach is denying Manny the chance at virtually unprecedented history. It's worth the damned risk.

 

CAtchweight should be outlawed ...........:good

 

You missed the part where 145 weight limit was Cotto's suggestion, huh?