Pacquiao v Cotto - Good win or 145lb diminish it?

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  1. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    This.
     
  2. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Bradley II should have never happened. That was a cherry pick. Pac beat him easily in the first fight. The second fight proved nothing.
     
  3. VG_Addict

    VG_Addict Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    Looks like I need to remind people that DAWSON was the one who wanted to fight Ward at 168.
     
  4. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Pac is not a lightweight and he fought Oscar at 147 but not Cotto. Meaning the cw was to the benefit of Pac and used as a handicap rather than to compensate.
     
  5. purephase

    purephase Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Dawson's team formally requested a catchweight near the middle in negotiations and were rebuffed by Ward.
     
  6. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    As did Canelo who said he would fight Floyd at 150.
     
  7. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Same thing can be said about Canelo with the Mayweather situation. It's literally no different.
     
  8. ValentinePrince

    ValentinePrince Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I mean he's a LW in the modern sense that he's the size most LWs rehydrate to.
     
  9. alexthegreatmc

    alexthegreatmc Sound logic and reason. You're welcome! Full Member

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    Gotcha, because I think if he made lightweight now, he'd die of kidney failure lol
     
  10. janeschicken

    janeschicken hard work! deadicayshin! Full Member

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    I agree with this. The difference was that it made Mayweather and his sack riders look like total hypocrites for harping about that catchweight for three years and then Mayweather goes and pulls it.
     
  11. doylexxx

    doylexxx Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    pac ko oscar , hatton and cotto within 12 months

    wow
     
  12. Florez

    Florez Boxing Junkie Full Member

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  13. markq

    markq Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    JMM KTFO6 Pacquiao and Pac slept longer than oscar, hatton and cotto combined! wowowowie :yep:yep:yep
     
  14. jim jim

    jim jim Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I didn think cotto looked drained he looked the same to me ,it's a great win considering the size too. Couldn't believe Pacquios chin and power in that fight he literally walked through cottos best shots and had cotto cowering away when he hit him. He looked like sub a force against Judah and kept walking him down despite being nailed but Pacquio had him scared in there even when he was having success
     
  15. Beouche

    Beouche Juan Manuel Marquez Full Member

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    Beating someone on the scales was a favourite tactic of Team Pacquiao, and really undermined several of his victories

    Fight a guy at his proper weight. Then no one can criticise you for it. You might get beat but if you want to be Great then take that's the risk you have to take