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On another note the fight was at a catchweight of 145 pounds. But since it's not Pacquiao, it's okay for others to fight at catchweights.
Did they do catchweight fights all the time, or at least most, like Pacquiao?
Manny
57 fights
2 catchweights

Oscar
45 fights
2 catchweight

B Hop
59 fights
3 catchweights

BHop and Oscar are the catchweight kings of our era.
To be fair to Hopkins though, in all 3 occasions he was the guy having to cut down in weight to come to a fair CW.

I also thought that the Calzaghe fight had Warren put in a catchweight limit of like 173?

I think it's the guy who asks for the catchweight who should become the 'catchweight king'.

Anyway back to your original point, it's got to be Whitaker-Chavez, I've never had that closer than 10-2 when scoring it. It was a clinic.

More often than not the bigger guys wins though. It's actually quite rare for the smaller guy to win a catchweight fight, and when they do they were nearly always the big pre fight favourite in the first place. The rampant weight draining from catchweight fights that captures the imaginations of the Saddo critics has very rarely been witnessed in the ring.