Pacquiao vs. Cotto: Stop with the excuses Cotto

Then why can't you be more objective !!!!

 

So damn true.

 

Cotto doesn't even deserve to fight with pacquiao, Mosley does! Cotto's fight with Clottey was controversial & we all saw what Mosley did to Margarito... Bullsh**

 

The fight is at 145 !!!!

 

Controversial ?

Are you referring to Clottey's propensity for headbuts ?

We also saw what Cotto did to Mosley.

So, whats your point ???

 

thats a LIMIT. the fighters can not weigh more than 147, not the have to weight 147. 145 lbs is below the WW limit therefore the belt should be on the line

 

If it's below the ww limit then Cotto doesn't have to put his belt on the line. If it's in the ww limit in which is at 147 pounds then the belts should be on the line. Whats so hard to understand?

 

I agree to some degree, i think Cotto should swallow his pride because this is his one opportunity to be great (Pacquiao should fight him at 147 for his own sake, but he is the big name so he gets to call the shots when it comes down to it). However your reference to the Hopkins fight doesn't really have any merit. Comparing the physical weight characteristics of totally different fighters isn't really practical, different fighters respond to it totally differently so there isn't really such a thing as a precedent in a situation like this. Particularly when comparing with a situation like Hopkins - DLH, where Oscar had just come off a loss to a 147 pounder and a gift over an average 160 pounder, he needed all the advantages he could get.

The fact is if Manny wants the credit associated with beating a welterweight champ he should fight him at the welterweight limit (makes sense), but if his team isn't willing to take that risk, then Cotto really has to bend over backwards and do everything to meet their demands, because this is probably his only real shot left. A **** situation, yes, but Pacquiao has the attention of the entire boxing world right now and can afford to make all the demands.

Also, its only the WBO, who gives a ****, the only point of it is so that Manny can call himself a welterweight champ, which no one really credits the WBO as, the merit of the accomplishment will lie in the quality of his opponent, not a second rate trinket.

 

There appears to be some confusion in the showdown between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto, scheduled for November 14 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. There is so much money at stake that Cotto does not want to risk his WBO welterweight title. Top Rank's Bob Arum, who promotes both fighters, told The Philippine Star that Cotto is not willing to pay the sanctioning fee involved. Arum says the fee could be as high as $400,000 dollars.

You answered your own question there.

Pac wanting the fight at 143 is pretty much pissing in the wind. They knew Cotto had as much a chance of making 143 as he did 140. It's all negotiation tactics.

It's a two-way street. Who else is Pac going to fight that is willing to take a 65/35 split and generate the type of interest that a fight with Cotto would? Mayweather is obviously fighting Marquez, so they are out. Shane Mosley wants a 60/40 split, even though he says he's willing to fight in the low 140s, he doesn't have a following. So who does that leave? Nobody at all.

Wrong. Manny doesn't have to go up at all. He came in at 142 for the De La Hoya fight, which around the weight he walks around at during training camp. While Cotto has to cut extra weight to make 145, a weight he hasn't seen since 2006.

 

Cotto won with a point in the Mosley fight, right? What if the Mosley/Clottey fights weren't in Madison Square Garden but let's say Las Vegas, would the outcomes be the same for Cotto?
I think that we should have had a rematch between Cotto & Mosley & the winner could have got a shot at Pacquiao.
So a lot of you actually think that Cotto deserves a match with Pacquiao & not Mosley?
Really?

 

Hatton didn't think he was goin in against a worldbeater either remember lol...not many people gave Collazo a chance in Hell against Hatton...plus Hatton was only comin up from 140 where he had always been(and where he had trouble making 140 in his fight with Maussa)....Paquiao is NOWHERE near his original weight...even though he was a kid when he started at those weights its still a long ways in the past....and Cotto is seen as being MUCH more of a threat than Collazo was. Cotto is a KO artist...if Manny doesn't fight the perfect fight Cotto WILL drop the hammer and end the fight with a KO...Collazo is a decision fighter...he's a slick awkward boxer and everyone thought Hatton would put too much pressure on him and stop him. So he had no reason to ask for a catchweight. I can see where Roach and Manny are coming from(personally I think its more Roach than Manny). However, I am starting to get sick of all the catchweight talk though. There wasn't any talk of catchweights til the last year or so. I mean obviously there was a random fight here and there at catchweights...like DLH/Hopkins...but lately catchweights are all you hear about. Manny should just fight at 147 and suck it up. That or go back a couple divisions to where he's more suited.