Catchweights are becoming an easy copout.

[TitoFan]

Make the weight! You lazy bums! It's only 7 pounds between weight divisions.
The first 5 or 6 times it happened it was like... ok... let's do it so the fight can be made.
But it's becoming ridiculous now.
If you can't make the weight, don't fight at that division. Simple as.

Agreed. There have been the odd sprinklings of this late in the 20th century but nothing like you see today. This 141 thing for the Peterson fight is downright fraud. In your face fraud I might add.

Exactly. It seems a hell of a lot more prevalent now.
And we, the ever-accepting boxing fan public, don't really care, as long as they give us the good fights we yearn for.
But why have weight divisions, then?

[IamInuit]

Make the weight! You lazy bums! It's only 7 pounds between weight divisions.
The first 5 or 6 times it happened it was like... ok... let's do it so the fight can be made.
But it's becoming ridiculous now.
If you can't make the weight, don't fight at that division. Simple as.

Agreed. There have been the odd sprinklings of this late in the 20th century but nothing like you see today. This 141 thing for the Peterson fight is downright fraud. In your face fraud I might add.

Exactly. It seems a hell of a lot more prevalent now.
And we, the ever-accepting boxing fan public, don't really care, as long as they give us the good fights we yearn for.
But why have weight divisions, then?

They should just go back to the original eight. I'm sure when Greb fought Tunney outside once when he chubbed out he was nowhere near 175. He showed up at his best weight. They need to close divisions not broaden them. On second thought, the Wba and Wbc have more then double the belts as there are divisions. So lets just have 34 divisions instead of 17 lol.

[Spicoli]

It's really not a matter of fighters not being able to make the weight so much anymore. The 1 lb really shines a light on a steaming pile of El heffe and company trying to have their cake and eat it too.

If a fight of this nature and caliber doesn't warrant the Champion to meet his obligations and those in power to treat it as such, just cut the crap and dump that POS in the trash can Bowe style. It's a slap in the face to fans that the rankings (plans) stay the same regardless of outcome and expect us to eat up the next "title fight that actually counts" and forget...oh yeh, THAT guy lost btw. It's fucking parlor tricks man, I understand the bad weather in boxing but fuckin A son, don't piss in my boots and blame it on the rain. Fans are stubborn but we're not fookin retarded.