Quote Originally Posted by bzkfn View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Rantcatrat View Post
Really? You would rather Pacquiao, the current ambassador of the sport we follow, who has the ability to interest the casual fan, to fight the Kendall Holt's and Tim Bradley's at 140 than fight Shane Mosely and Miguel Cotto at 144?
If the weightloss will seriously hinder Mosley or Cotto, as I suspect it will. If Manny is the best, and wants to beat the best, he should fight them at their best. Its for his benefit too. Like I said earlier, 2 of Manny's losses have been attributed to him being weight drained. Does it mean his conquerers can consider themselves amongst the best in the world because they beat him? Or did these wins prove little as they weren't fighting a full strength Pacquiao?
Cotto weighed in at 146 for the Clottey fight. 144 wouldn't be too big of a step down. Mosely, well, that is another story, no one knows for sure. My bet is that weighing 142 would hamper his ability or from another perspective, even out the playing field.

Would you give more credit to Pacquiao if he beat the top lightweights (Nate Campbell etc.) and junior welterweights (he already did that, but how about Tim Bradley etc) or if he beat Cotto at 144? If he suddenly became realistic that he just isn't big enough to fight a true welterweight at their normal weight, but dominated at 135/140.

What fights would a boxing fan rather see? Cotto at 144 or Campbell/Valero etc.?

I understand and agree that if the fight is for a welterweight belt, it should be at 147, like it was at 140 for the junior welterweight belt, but that aside, wouldn't you rather see Pac fight Cotto at 144 (assuming PBF is out of the picture)?