Please no more catchweight fights !!!

They want Pac, deal with it.

 

I ****ing hate them. Malignaggi-Diaz is ****in stupid. 138.5 jesus christ they would probably weigh that a the ****in weigh if it was a 140. Its not like Diaz is doing pacman jumps in weight, its only one ****in division against a fighter that wouldnt break an egg.

 

I don't see the problem with catchweights at all, if both fighters agree on it. Hopkins-Wright, Pavlik-Taylor II, etc. I don't see any problem with it.

 

I don't mind catchweight fights in principle, but splitting hairs over 1lb is stupid.

Some clown said yesterday that Mayweather would beat Pac at 146, but would lose at 145!

So Floyd chooses to have a **** after the weigh in and loses the fight?

 

pac has already fought through 10 weight divisions from 108 to 147 in his career. i'll say that's definitely doing pound for pound things. and remember, pac hasn't fought at a catchweight yet. so, what's with your "please no more catchweight fights"? :huh

 

There's nothing new about catchweight fights, mate. I'll make this point, had we not had catchweights then we would have been robbed of seeing two of last years best and most suprising fights: Pacman V ODLH; Pavlik V B-Hop. Would you rather have not seen those fights? Also, you have to concede that Pacquiao is now fighting way above where he started out- I think in all honesty he's earned his catchweight fights after what he's achieved. Long may catchweights continue, IMO.

 

WTF, how many of Pac's fights has been on a catchweight? NONE, why are you bitching for just one catchweight fight against top welters?

 

continued... I know Pacman V ODLH was not technically a catchweight but you do get my point. Both fighting @ welterweight was a good as a catchweight.

 

Pac was mving 2 divisions up, Oscar was dropping just 3 pounds(his last fight was at a 150 catchweight).
So fighting Oscar at welterweight was completely fair.

 

hmm... pac-dlh happened at the welter limit of 147 so i don't think that could be considered as a catchweight fight. pac went up two weight classes from 135 while dlh went down 1 from 154. it would've been grossly unfair for pac go up 3 weight classes to fight dlh at his natural weight of 154. so, the fight happening at welter was but fair to both parties involved. ppl also tend to forget that dlh fought forbes at a catchweight of 150 before the pacquiao fight.

 

you beat me to it. :good

 

Hang on, mate- I never said it was unfair. I was just responding to the title of the thread. I am argueing that catchweights are very fair indeed. Read my previous comment and you'll see.

 

Some catchweights are unfair take Jones-Trinidad. Tito began at 147 and fought at 170 against Jones. I thought there was a big difference in size on fightnight

 

I don't really mind as long as it's done to try to "even things out" rather than simply drain a guy where he's going to be dead @ the weight.

It does seem to take a bit out of the historic sense when a welterweight title bout is at 145 lbs, but still, I'll take that over no fight at all.

Some big fights, memorable ones, have been at catchweights: Whitaker-Chavez, Leonard-Hearns 2, Pacquiao-DLH (technically it was at 147 a traditional division but you know what I mean), Hopkins-Pavlik, Ayala-Tapia 2, etc..