Didn't freddie roach say the highest weight pacquaio would fight at is 147lbs.? Pacquaio is gonna get crushed.
It will be at catchweight of 151. More reason to hate from the haters. The same haters that will watch Pac on their couches win his 8th title in 8 weight divisions.
I think Pac is trying to get a feel at Jr. middleweight to see if he can bang with the bigger boys. If he feels like he has speed and power at 151-154, expect a martinez fight soon.
I hope Arum has finally run out of inhouse options for Pac and lets him fight Martinez and/or Williams for a middleweight belt. Let's face it, Mayweather will be too busy fighting off prison butt rapists by that time. :yep
The fights at 151 and for a vacant title. Thus not a real championship fight. Should be exciting though. Like I've said before, not often do you get an asian midget against a giant mexican fight.
Just an utterly pointless fight if he's not campaigning at that weight. Its like his run at Lightweight, he's known as a world champion but beat only David Diaz. No doubt he probably would have crushed everyone in the lw division and he wanted to make money, but it does kind of irk me that he gets to add that to his "belts he's captured in different weights". Fighting once at the weight and winning the title, especially if it's your first time not even attempting the junior version of the weight, does not earn you that medal in my estimation. Pac shoulda fought Margo at 147, strengthening his WW record even further, but if he wants to be known as a Middleweight fighter... **** man, fight Paul Williams. It doesn't matter what weight that guy fights at, he's the perfect opponent to step up in weight. If he gets past Paul Williams at Middleweight, fight Sergio, and if he fights him at Welterweight, that's a very good name to have on his record. But I know Pac's only fighting Margo at MW to get that title in another division, it's just a load of bull****. Titles need to be sorted out as soon as possible to avoid catchweights, diamond belts, stepping aside and **** like this. The UFC have their belts worked out so well, granted they sometimes offer the shot to the wrong challenger.
its at 151 so margarito doesn't come in at 170 on fight night, guarantee that they will not show margaritos's actual weight the night of the fight, just like clottey they don't want the embarassment factor out there when he loses.
It's still very impressive considering there is nobody in sight who is even within reasonable reach of ever coming close to that accomplishment. May never be duplicated let alone be broken.
I agree. They should just do it at 154 just to shut everyone up on the catchweight issue. They'll still remind everyone though of the handwrap issue.
Like how Pac did it at welter, he will do it again at light middle. Pac fought Cotto at catch weight for the title, then defended it at full 147 lbs against Clottey. If Pac wins against Margo at catch, I have no doubt he will defend the title at full light middleweight. Still impressive considering he is fighting these big guys at new weights at championship levels.