I don't like catch weight

[Rantcatrat]

There shouldnt be catch weights. titles should stay in the weight they're made for.

Exactly...thats my point


Paq is good for boxing but has been pampered and set up to accomplish brilliance by catch weighting and getting some of his opponents to make weight to accomodate success and cheat the fans in to believing some false miracle

job biscuit (De La Hoya had to lose weight to fight Paq...and this hurt him)!!!

eh eh!!!

To be clear, the Oscar De La Hoya fight was not at a catchweight and in that fight Pacquiao came up from 135 and De La Hoya came down from 154 to 147. Also, the oddsmakers in Vegas had De La Hoya 2-1 favorite in that fight and many posters here on saddo's even had De La Hoya the prohibitive favorite.

Please realize that catch-weight fights didn't begin with Pacquiao. Many of boxing's greatest have fought at catchweights. In fact, Bernard Hopkins has fought in more catch-weight fights than Manny Pacquiao. Hopkins earned arguably his biggest wins--Kelly Pavlik & Oscar De La Hoya--at catchweights. He also fought Winky Wright and John Davis Jackson at catchweights.

Sugar Ray Leonard made Donny Lalonde come down to 168 in a fight for Lalonde's light heavyweight title.

Julio Cesar Chavez fought Meldrick Taylor at 145 for the welterweight title.

Roy Jones Jr. fought Felix Trinidad at 170 pounds.

I'm not taking a stand on catch-weights either way, but to say that Manny Pacquiao is the king of catchweights is erroneous. As far as I know, he has fought three fights at catchweight: Cotto, Margarito and JMM. The only fight of those where I felt the weight favored Pacquiao was against Cotto.