Why do guy argue about weight classes and catch weights and ****? Never got it.

so your saying if roles reversed and cotto was the huge star he would have made the fight at 145?

your kidding yourself

 

Te more perfect example is Mayweather - JMM at 144, err 147.

 

:good

 

Hence, the true purpose of doing catchweights... making fights between fighters of 2 different but adjacent weight classes possible. Catchweights are nothing new. In fact, catchweights were much more common when there were only 8 weight divisions. Draining or fattening/slowing a fighter is not the purpose. Weight division limits were created by people, not God. Same with catchweights. It takes 2 to agree to do one. When the 2 who actually lace up the gloves agree on a weight, it's baffling why some couch potato would throw a fit about the agreement.

 

one pattern i noticed at esb is the propensity of posters to create excuses for a beaten fighter in order to trivialize the win of the other fighter.

 

They should have had Lewis-Vitali at a 245 lb. catchweight so that a in-shape "Lewis would have gotten em' in the 7th"

 

It is happening again!

 

Nobody here can honestly feel strongly about weight stipulations. The Floyd fans or Pacquiao detractors will bring the catch-weights up as an issue, but if it had been Floyd fighting catch-weights, they'd have no problem with it. More agenda-driven crap, and nobody has any basis whatsoever to say Cotto was at all hampered by weighing in at 145lbs. The fighter said he was fine, his trainers said as much, and everything that transpired in the fight was typical of Cotto and not anything we hadn't seen before from him at 147lbs.

Jazzo is on point. Change the ****ing record.

 

I dont have a massive issue with the Cotto catch weight. The Mayweather Marquez one was ridiculous though. The only issue I have is when people blindly say that it didnt make a difference when there was clearly a reason why they asked for it. Also the fact that it was for a welterweight belt distorts Pacquiaos legacy for me. Same with the Marg fight if it was at 154 there would be a much bigger size difference but Manny is now going to claim to be champion at another weight.