fans delusional to catch weights

Obviously Pac's catchweight fights are an attempt to limit his opponents' rehydration weight on fightnight, since they are naturally much bigger men than him. It's an attempt to level the playing field a bit, even though Pac will still be at a considerable size disadvantage anyway, even in catchweight fights.

I don't see the problem with catchweight fights at all myself. As soon as they introduced "super" and "junior" divisions, it completely legitimized catchweights in my eyes, because these arbitrary new weights have no meaning to me. Is 150 all that different from 154? Not to me. I recognize only the traditional 8 weight classes, and the rest are a lot of shite really, ways for organizations to make more money.

 

I don't have a problem with them as long as their not for titles. If so then it's a ****ing farce and should be discredited immediately. You can't win a vacant strap at 154 for a fight being fought at 150.

 

Not to Margarito it won't. 150 is a GREAT weight for him. The guy has spent his career being a big welterweight, and yet in his lightmiddle fight with Daniel Santos, I thought he looked like the naturally smaller man, a smaller frame.

150 is a perfect weight for Antonio Margarito.

 

Was the Pernell Whitaker vs Julio Cesar Chavez fight a ****ing farce?

 

The decision was.

 

Agreed! Great fight and great event though. If that fight hadn't got made because Pea wouldn't go to 140 and JCC wouldn't go to 147, it would have been a tragedy for boxing.

 

Spot on!:good

 

The title shouldn't have been on the line.

 

Titles dont mean **** nowadays with or without catchweights.

 

I think we have to judge catch-weights on a fight by fight base.

Some times they are needed to level the playing field and other times they are a joke.

The upcoming Pac-Margo catch-weight fight may actually favor Margo. Margo has been at his best at 147 but the lay of since last fighting at 147 against Mosley and his advancing age may have made it difficult for him to make the WW limit again so only having to make 150-151 or what ever it is should help him.

However, like you pointed out Ant, having fights at catch-weights for a belt of another weight is a farce and a disgrace.

 

Like I said before, it's hard to understand why when two fighters who are actually strapping on the gloves and a boxing organization agree on a weight, it's the couch potato boxing fan, who's only fighting will involve who gets the last beer or chip, throws a fit.