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I liked the quote used by YB the other day. You know you've made it when you got haters.

Almost no one said anything about the other catchweights that were fought, besides 1 or 2 at the most.

Oscar-Hopkins at 156?

Chavez-Whitaker at 145? Hardly a moan.

Leonard-Lalonde at 168? Hardly a moan.

Hopkins-wright and Pavlik at 170? Hardly a moan.

Taylor-Pavlik at 166? Hardly a moan.

Taylor-Norris at 150? Hardly a moan.

Williams-Marinez at 158? hardly a moan.

But with Pacquiao it's a problem and considered to be breaking the rules of boxing.
ANd if the guys think it's unfair to come down in weight. Then don't sign the contract. No one forced them to. And if they did complain, then take responsibility for accepting the terms.

BTW no one forced Oscar to fight Manny, it was Oscar that wanted to fight a guy that just jumped 3 divisions within a year and was only taking 32% of the fight purse and ppv money. Oscar was never forced to do anything in his boxing career. He was always the A side of the draw and had the upper hand in negotiations. And that includes his fight with Manny.
In those fights listed how many of the guys coming DOWN to the weight lost?
I think in all of those fights the favourite won. Having watched many of them I don't see that weight drain was a factor in any of the fights I saw. You presumably disagree?

My point was actually going to be the guy coming down in weight won the majority of those fights, I think hopkins won all of his on that list and that's why no fuss was made. that can't be said for the Pacquiao fights. In all of those the guy coming down looked weak and slow and got a one sided beating and that's why a fuss was kicked up

You think the out come of Hagler vs Leonard would have been the same if they had had the weight stipulations?