Did cotto ruin the MW title/division

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  1. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    Mayweather the CSAC USADA & Vegas Boxing combined to let Mayweather cheat , Got caught & therefore ruined what credibility boxing had . To the lay-man boxing is on a parr with pro wrestling They've ruined the greatest sport on earth
     
  2. adokei

    adokei Well-Known Member Full Member

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    oh...you an alt....
     
  3. Capitan

    Capitan Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Cotto helped himself by winning the Title...he didn't help the division!

    I felt his first defense should've been vs GGG at 160 lbs.
    kind of disappointing.

    Unfortunately he learned how much the catchweight can disadvantage your opponent from Pacquiao the king of them !!!
     
  4. Bamioa

    Bamioa New Member Full Member

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    Billy joe saunders was only offered $1.5M
     
  5. C.J.

    C.J. Boxings Living Legend revered & respected by all Full Member

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    Tell me something Dan? How can Gennady beat someone who refuses to fight him. I'm sure Gennady would have preferred to fight Pollo for the belt. He could have had fun beating on & humiliating Pollo before KO ing him. But Pollo did a fine job of humiliating himself by surrendering his bogus WBC belt so meekly:scaredas::patsch
     
  6. OvidsExile

    OvidsExile At a minimum, a huckleberry over your persimmon. Full Member

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    No one guy ruins a title or a division. It dies by a thousand cuts like Julius Caesar. Martinez should have fought Golovkin for the title, but he went with Cotto. Cotto ducked Golovkin and went with Geale, then Alvarez. Alvarez ducked Golovkin and fought Khan then dropped the belt. Meanwhile, Quillin drops a belt instead of fighting Golovkin and Saunders turns down a fight he'd almost certainly lose. It took a lot of guys doing ****ed up stuff to get us to this point.

    The alphabet organizations come in for their share of blame not ranking each other's champions and making multiple belts (gold, diamond, silver, interim, super) for every weight class too.
     
  7. drenlou

    drenlou VIP Member Full Member

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    Nice copy and paste:good
     
  8. Slavic Fighter

    Slavic Fighter Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I think those fighters should just be added on GGG's resume.

    GGG is basically 46-0
     
  9. kk17

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    No Hopkins did it. He dominated @160 then he left for LHW but destroyed the middlweightchamp (Pavlik)
     
  10. damian38

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    Cotto and the WBC made a mockery of the sport by making legit title defenses at catchweights

    good thing Cotto no longer has the title at MW, he can go back to 154 where he belongs
     
  11. Bustajay

    Bustajay Feel the Steel/Balls Deep Full Member

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    I will say no
    You can't blame a boxer for jumping up and stealing a belt in a higher division most recents that stand out in my mind
    PAC
    DLH
    Floyd
    Broner
    Cotto
    The list goes on and on so no
     
  12. Bustajay

    Bustajay Feel the Steel/Balls Deep Full Member

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    Very nice post
    It is so uncommon on here these days so I value the thought you placed on your post:thumbsup:deal