Quote Originally Posted by ElTerribleMorales View Post
as for KKisser, umm you're judging Martinez for wanting catchweight fights when he's the one going down in weight and giving up that advantage, the only other fighter to ever call for catchweights in nearly everyone of his fights since moving up to welter has been Pacquiao, kinda hard not to mention him when he's the only fighter who is CONSTANTLY asking for them, Martinez is willing to shed 10 lbs. and he's damn well near 40 yrs old, and yet still everyone in his division (Sturm, Pirog, and everyone else at 160) is running scared from him, as well as most guys at 154 for example Cintron and Angulo, so you can't blame the guy for wanting a crack at 3 of the biggest names to have fought at 154 in the last 5 yrs being Cotto, Pacquiao, and Mayweather especially when he's willing to be the guy to give up his size advantage to fight all 3
who says i blame him? all i'm saying is if he wants to get any respect he should pick on fighters his own size or consider looking north of his division when calling them out, and that's when i mentioned hopkins which would also be a big money fight and would give him mad respect. maybe you haven't been seeing how much flack martinez's been getting from the media and the comment sections for calling out the significantly smaller guys for obviously just the financial reward that comes with it. he should call out fighters his own size or even bigger like what pacquiao did, or even mayweather when he was moving up in weight so as not get criticized that's all i'm sayin.

i don't like catchweights as well and especially if its for a title belt. i give manny a pass on the de la hoya fight where he's the underdog coz oscar only had to go down 1 division lower where manny had to go up 2, not to mention pacman has only fought at that time at 135lbs just once. so it's basically almost like going up 3 weight divisions higher. the cotto fight really should have been at full welterweight limit. the margarito fight was a sham title match but margarito wasn't at any disadvantage with the 150lb catchweight, and i think you'd agree pacquiao was actually the one at a disadvantage there weightwise. with the upcoming jmm fight i believe most true boxing fans would even prefer a lower catchweight than the 144lb they have for it, but it being a welterweight world title fight i don't even hear anybody complaining that it shouldn't be at a catchweight. so get it straight, me being a pacquiao fan doesn't make me a blind follower, and bringing up pacquiao in my earlier post doesn't really have any merit.




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