PBF: "I Don't Use Plaster Or Fight At Catchweights"

Of course PBF doesn't fight at catchweight, that's why he chose to cheat at the weight and paid penalty instead of coming at the contracted weight against JMM.:-fire

 

He didn't actually, as evidenced by the fact that he had to pay Marquez for coming in above the agreed upon weight limit. He agreed to fight at a catchweight, but he clearly reneged on his agreement.

 

Wait, are people here seriously trying to claim that Floyd didn't commit to a catchweight fight against JMM?

:rofl

 

Oh, he committed, but he didn't fight him at one, so his statement is accurate. :hey

 

Lol, yeah. At least you and I know that's bollocks. Because accurate or not, it actually makes his statement(s) worse. Duping a man into thinking it's a catchweight fight, only to then not agree to it by letting him know at the very last second (as in, on the ****ing weighing scales ), is far worse than having catchweight fights where you actually stick by them.

Oh, and since people regard Manny's fight at 147 with Oscar a catchweight fight, and since Floyd says he doesn't do catchweights, does that mean if he's going to fight Sergio, it'll be at 160?

 

Floyd appeared to have never committed from the very beginning, hence why the weight of the fight was always a grey area for many in the sport. As I have provided in this thread there was a hell of a lot of evidence before the lead up to the fight that floyd was coming in at the WW limit which is 147, floyd made this known publicly on several occasions.

So if we have floyd saying all this, but we had oscar and marquez team saying it a catchweight fight, then there must have been confusion or no clarity in the contract both fighters initially signed.

What I believe to be true is Oscar and Schafer stitched up marquez with the contract not floyd. How does a man months before the fight keep telling you he coming in as a WW, it a WW fight, suddenly shock golden boy, marquez and his team and the boxing fans when he does exactly what he said he doing?

 

It has nothing to do with his statement, actually. Yeah, I think him not coming in at the weight he agreed upon was total BS, and I also think catchweights are ****ing lame.

 

I'm not sure who those people are, but 147 is not a catchweight. It's the WW limit.

 

Haha exactly. . .

well if he fought sergio, it would likely be at 154. . but then he violates his claim to "fight guys at their best, strongest weight". .

 

I’m actually not bothered about catchweight fights. They’ve been happening throughout history. If it allows great matchups to be made by two guys in different weight divisions, then I’m all for it. For example, Martinez vs Ward at 164, would be perfectly fine and I can’t see why anyone would complain about that.

It’s only when they’re implemented unnecessarily, that I’m against them. Like when Cotto tried to get Marg to come at 150, only to then settle for 153.

 

atsch

you really don't know much about the sport, sergio says he already to small for 160 and 154 is his ideal weight, so what the **** are you on about?

160 is not sergio's best weightclass. That's like saying 154 is floyd best weightclass it is not.atsch

 

How about when Pacquiao fought Cotto at 145 after having already fought DLH at 147 and then went on to fight Clottey only four months later at 147. Unnecessary? Yeah, I'd say so.

 

I can't be bothered going through this thread to find that "evidence" you've posted, so be a good boy will you, and collect the quotes for me and post them again?

Because being a welterweight is anything between 140 and 147. Their contracted fight (at 144 was it?) was at welterweight. That's why you can fight for welterweight belts at those weights (as evident by Pac-Cotto). So, Floyd, in a 144 catchweight, saying he's coming in as a welterweight for a welterweight fight, was actually technically correct. Him saying that, is in no way hardcore evidence that he did not agree to a catchweight fight. He, Mayweather (the man who's the boss of himself, remember) SIGNED(!) for it to take place at 145. Whatever his intentions were, you cannot deny that this was the case. Because if he didn't sign for it, then he wouldn't have paid the penalties.

 

Dude, no. A welterweight fight is a fight with a weight limit of 147lbs. Yeah, you can come in lower. You can even come in below the LWW limit, but it ain't a welterweight fight unless the weight limit is 147.

 

Im sure Sergio has said that! But his record at each perspective weight class would indicate otherwise. . . All his best wins came north of the 154 pound weight class. . .

Sergio is a full-sized MW. . . He weighed in at 176 pounds at the 30 day weigh-in for his rematch with Williams.