Thoughts on the Cotto situation.....

That catch weight was requested by Sergio, it's not something Sergio gave into, it's something he wanted.

 

Cotto earned his position years ago and already gave the idiotic morons who seem to forget what they regularly demand far too many times already. He should now pick whatever is right for him financially before he retires. Both Cotto and Alvarez are established big names in terms of popularity, what easily makes Cotto in the driver's seat is the fact that he's the WBC/Lineal champion. If Alvarez can't accept his demands he should go find another opponent.

 

:deal

 

Sure, he earned his right to face anyone he wants. He took the gamble of getting destroyed by Maravilla, but he played his cards right, thanks to Roach, who did the samething with matching Pacman with Oscar. Cotto has more ***** than Floyd and Manny combined, and should fight Floyd again. This time, Cotto will have more advantages and better prepared for Floyd. Because whoever wins, my friends, whether it be Cotto, Canelo, or especially Floyd, will eventually have to answer to the real monster of the division, GGG. Little lightweight Duran beat Barkley I don't see why neither Cotto or Floyd shouldn't face him either.

 

I understand winning and losing vicariously through athletes and I understand f*cking vicariously through porn.

I will never understand making money vicariously through athletes.

I guess I kind of understand the Cotto fan's perspective. Like I said, we win and lose with our favorite athletes. Cotto's fans know he'll get beaten up and lose status against Alvarez or GGG. They know that he'll lose against Floyd, but predictably and comfortably. They would rather feel their man taking on the best in the world, losing honorably, and holding his head high while referring to himself in the third person rather than relive the pain of watching Cotto absorb a hellacious beating and quit on his knees.

I get it, but it's still BS.

PS
Hey JoyBoys, Cotto will make more $$ against Alvarez than he will against Floyd :hi:

 

It's ridiculous.

They do quite a few things correctly in the UFC, that's for sure.

 

You are right about Cotto vs Canelo money wise but the real question is which fight is more risky, to me Cotto taking a beating from Canelo would sink his career.

 

As it should.

Look...Cotto started his career as a middleweight. He was weighing in the high 150's for most of his fights at 140. He slowly stopped dehydrating so much until he arrived at middleweight, where he weighed 161 his last fight.

It's the final frontier, and if he can't beat guys who are middleweights then maybe his career is over unless he wants to start cutting to 140 again. Look around at 154 and 160...he won't beat any of those guys. He's not a top fighter anymore.

Maybe he can retire and just come out whenever a top champ picks up a career-ending injury?

 

I can imagine he's waiting to see what happens with Floyd and Manny. If Manny and Floyd do come to terms, he could renegotiate the date to June (PR Day weekend) and maybe even the location to MSG. It's smart business if that's the case. But, he's gonna look like a duck if he doesn't make this fight or give GGG a crack at that MW belt.

 

:good

 

He shouldn't...I'm a Martinez fan and Martinez was def through a few fights before Cotto, but nobody forced Martinez out there...I think GGG crushes Cotto too...I think it's bigger than Cotto being a Middleweight (paper) Champ. He's got everything a little over Canelo from a financial perspective (i'm picking Canelo to win by late stoppage/UD).:good

Pretty sure De La Hoya vs Hopkins (158), Leonard vs Hearns2 (16) were catchweights. :deal

I my case I wouldnt say "excuse" this fight. But Danny Garcia's latest antics are what I would deem unacceptable. And again I don't think the MW title is Cotto's primary factor.

Not sure what the money would look like. I think it would be similar.:think

stfu...GGG already had a fight scheduled.:-(

I agree with the first part. Unfortunately neither one have had a LMW recently. I don't know about a rematch but I'd say that'd be kind of ducking GGG at that point. Both have proved to me that they'll fight anyone (Cotto's entire career, Canelo when he chose to fight Lara). But I think they both get destroyed vs GGG.