Quote Originally Posted by Bilbo View Post
Simply because Manny was new to the weight and I guess his team were worried about overreaching. They wanted to be sure he was really capable of fighting at welterweight first.

He adapted so well it wasnt a problem and his future fights since have all been at 147 or above.
Winnah winnah chicken dinnah!!!!!!!!!!

I gotta say the focus on Manny's catchweight fights is hysterically funny. I mean what is more impressive a guy who has beaten top guys across nine divisions fighting at a catch weight in his tenth, or guys who have only fought across say five divisions?

Manny is doing something only a handful of guys have ever done and he's the first in 60+ years to do it. If someone is going to try to discredit it because of catchweights, don't they logically first have to denigrate the 99.999999% of all fighters who fought across fewer than ten of today's divisions?