Enough of this catch weight stuff ...

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  1. buckdacious

    buckdacious Sin~City punks!!! Full Member

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    Catch weights do suck
     
  2. Totomabs

    Totomabs Sauna Belt Holder Full Member

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    id give props to whom it is due and that would only come if pbf starts fighting guys like cotto, margo, etc.

    there's money to every fight that is being made. maybe not that big for some legit ones but legacy wise would earn a fighter tons of respect. and this applies to pbf's case. the guy's extremely talented but not much of a risk-taker and more of a cherry picker..
     
  3. kalunya5964

    kalunya5964 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's Shane who's calling out Pac, it's only fair for Shane to fight him at Pac's weight or at a weight that will not be disadvantageous to Pac.
     
  4. kalunya5964

    kalunya5964 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    It's the big guys who are calling him out, I can't blame Pac or his team for telling them his conditions.
     
  5. Vitor Belfort

    Vitor Belfort Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    :rofl:rofl:rofl
    This coming from a mayweather fan? Mayweather is fighting a lightweight in marquez at a catchweight:rofl:rofl:rofl
     
  6. thesandman

    thesandman Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If the fight is at a catchweight, no belt should be on the line, it's that simple.

    If you make a welter weigh in at 144, he should say "fine, but my welter belt is not up for grabs. You want that, you fight at 147".

    Sugar Ray Leonard did this years ago with Lalonde. It's nothing new.
     
  7. BADINTENTIONS2

    BADINTENTIONS2 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    damn right.
     
  8. birddog

    birddog Active Member Full Member

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    catch weights are BS as is prior day weigh in's.

    If the WW weight limit is 147, then that's the weight limit. I can't remember when this prior date weigh in started, but it's a joke.

    You have guys walking in at fight night coming in at 2 divisions above the limit, regularly, because of weighing in the day before.

    If have to drain down on the same day to make weight, and your weak. Then you don't belong in that division, end of story.

    Go back to same day weigh in's, and f the catch weights. Damn theirs only minute differences between divisions now anyway.

    So no need for catch weight BS
     
  9. Farmboxer

    Farmboxer VIP Member Full Member

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    If weight doesn't matter, then Mayweather should fight Vitali and Vlad next.
     
  10. nobius

    nobius 4th hokage Full Member

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    I dunno about Pac but it's roach gunning his mouth about this
     
  11. chimba

    chimba Off the Somali Coast Full Member

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    Another dumb ESB thread, yapping without knowing

    It should be stated that whoevers calling someone out, should be the one to accomodate.

    Live and learn, courtesy of me.
     
  12. nobius

    nobius 4th hokage Full Member

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