WBC strips Cotto of middleweight title

The title Cotto was stripped of is *meaningless*. When this fight is discussed 10 years from now, nobody will care that the WBC stripped Cotto as this fight remains a contest for the middleweight title...

 

It is a big deal.

Cotto beat Martinez at a catch weight, beat Geale at a catch weight, and is now fighting Canelo at a catch weight. All fights were for the belt.....so yes....it was ruining the legitimacy of the belt.

 

shanhan you are an idiot....its not a big deal.....ggg fans are making a big deal out of it thinking they have scored some victory.....if cotto wanted to keep it he would have opened his checkbook.....if he did the wbc wouldn't be making this move....cotto basically said eff that belt don't care.....and these ggg superfans are acting like the wbc struck a huge victory for ggg out of principle

 

Now, will the Ring strip him of the belt as well? Probably not, because Canelo (GBP) can still win it, and if he loses or draws they can strip him afterwards anyway.

 

So he won the title but dealt with the possibility that he may have to face GGG, he was prepared to get stripped in a few fights and basically wasted everyone's time pretending like he MAY fight GGG whilst in actuality never having any intention of doing so and that's perefetly fine for you? Haha.

I guess this is the kind of era we live in.

Even though this is totally pathetic behaviour, I'll still hope he wins just to set the title free from this fraudulent reign.

 

why would it have to do with anything else but money?

if it were they would have stripped cotto long before this?

they said cottos team wasn't compliant in making this fight for the wbc title....what else would It be?

 

totally pathetic behavior is saying youll fight anyone from 3 weight classes and ducking the best fighter of all 3 of them when he calls you out

 

Or drugtesting....

 

I hate catchweights. But you're kidding yourself if you think that had anything to do with it.

 

and he's afraid of golovkin. you forgot to add that part

 

Cotto has shown he is a coward. Was a fan of his but he acts like such a diva outside the ring.

He could have done this before and maybe the GGG/Lemieux fight could have unified IBF/WBA and WBC. Doesn't really matter now.

He has also ended the lineage :fire (For those who care)

 

Typical deflection, but he ducked Ward though :|

Nah man, this ain't the same at all, GGG never had any obligation to face Ward. However this is the champion of the division planning duckage from the beginning and holding the belt for hostage.. This affects more than just one guy, this is a ****ty move for the sport altogether.

 

shockmaster is literally the biggest hater and nuthugger on this site

 

So it was not paying the sanction fees and other "specific" conditions. (we can only speculate what those are)