Might as well be a ***** defending floyd weighing 146 vs Marquez. Which they do, by the way. So being the pacquiao version of michiganwarrior doesn't make you better.
It was insurance for emmanuel. He needed a mental edge by knowing Cotto would waste extra time in training to cut weight.
one question... what is easier.. a bigger guy fighting a small guy... or a small guy fighting a bigger guy? lets put it at the weight that both can make at most comfort.
It doesn't matter what's easier. he's going for the accomplishment of beating a WW, if he wants to downgrade the accomplishment, he doesn't get a free pass. I don't challenge heavyweights then tell them to wear bigger gloves because I can't handle heavyweight power. If he wants the accolade, he earns it legit. If he wants a catchweight title fight, he gets called on it.
why don't you answer my question? well it doesn't matter like you said.... so you **** on pac for fighting bigger guys?
What's easier, dehydrating and burning off 15 lbs or 17 lbs? We can go either way, but as it stands, like all prize fighter big names, Pacquiao is just as guilty as anyone else of forcing fighters to make concessions based on their star power vs his.
so you are trying to say that cotto is basically dehydrated besides the fact that he weighed in at 146 in his fight with clottey which indicates that he doesn't really struggle making the WW limit?
For me it really isn't even about Pacman beating my favourite boxer...I truly am jus curious, did he see Cotto as a genuine bigger threat than Clottey for not makin Joshua do the same? I in all honesty will say the 2 extra pounds wouldn't hav made a difference in the outcome of the fight bcos I think the Cotto camp was in disarray from the get go and that was a bigger factor than the weight imo
I think the main difference would be that when he fought Cotto, he was moving up from 140, while when he fought Clottey his body was already tested at WW. The Oscar fight doesn't really count as a real test at 147 since Oscar was not a natural WW but rather a drained, past-prime and part-time fighter.
Cotto is 'heavy' between fights. Cutting the weight required to fight the cherry picker would definitely have weakened him.