Malignaggi's Taste For The Fight Game Soured After Cotto Weigh-in Debacle

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Most "fans" know that Cotto has fought almost exclusively for HBO and that Top Rank is owned by the Arum family which has gone hand in hand with HBO for the most part.
Cotto has always been one of my favorite fighters and I predicted that he would seriously injure Maliganaggi but Cotto and Arum are now just jumping out of a pan and into a fire if they think Showtime is any less controling.

I don't understand, mate. Is HBO "controlling" Cotto, or are they paying off people so that he can cheat the weigh-in system and win fights? There are too many conspiracy theories here to keep them all straight. . . . .

you say conspiracy theory after all the skullduggary that has gone on throughout boxing history?

I tell you the truth that I have had first time experience were officials let guys box me way over their weight limit twice. I won both matches varily but the third time I bitched about it, got the guy that was only a tad bigger and beat him silly. I will tell the whole of the three stories if y'all would like when I get back home in a few hours.

Lemme get this straight. So you like Cotto, but you're upset that HBO (and now Showtime) are controlling him. But you're also upset that Cotto cheated and gamed the system and had the weigh-in moved earlier. But it's not his fault because HBO was controlling him. Even though it wasn't an HBO fight, and was in fact competing with an HBO PPV. But it's not a conspiracy theory that HBO and Arum had it all worked out between them anyway. Although it shouldn't really have mattered to Malignaggi, because Maracho has beaten three guys who came in over their weight limit.

Is that about it?

I never put any blame on Cotto and I am glad he won and knew he would win but what I am upset with is HBO guys like Hatton permitted to wrestle and getting gift decisions, and him and Floyed moving to various weight classes and getting first dibbs at the big money fights, belts and rankings while others or left waiting behind. Now the rules suddenly change about weigh in times for another HBO fighter then change back again.

You cronies just keep on protecting the big wigs but you wont shut me up and by the way these are just a few of the many shady goings on at HBO and Showtime you know it.