Kneeguel Cotto has a soft change of heart.. it's now catchweight @ 159

[FinitoElDinamita]

Maybe they heard that Martinez' knee isnt that bad after all...

Knowing how he pulled the same stunt on Margarito, this isnt surprising..

What the heck is 159 ?

[Ron Swanson]

I don't see how this has any effect other than saddening me. I hope the details of the negotiations stop coming out because the bits that have come out seem so diva.

Holding it up over the name that comes first, why, it will sell either way?

Holding it up over one pound, why, when neither struggles to make weight?

If Cotto comes in to the ring last I'm going to lose a little respect for him, only a little but I don't want to lose any

[FinitoElDinamita]

I lost respect when he started crying on HBO faceoff , going far as to pulling out his Ipad to reach for an evidence that dont exist... he was like trying desperately to prove that margarito's gauge didnt look right poo hoo lol.. I understand how devastating it is to lose your first fight but dam take the loss like a man and stop looking for excuses!

He's a crybaby.. no wonder Tito is closer to Juanma.. there is no room for crying business in boxing.

[powerpuncher]

how is cotto a crybaby? he has had a tough road and hasnt really complained much at all other than against your lover margarcheato. anyways, martinez is small for a middleweight anyways so the 1 pound wont be a factor.

[bzkfn]

I lost respect when he started crying on HBO faceoff , going far as to pulling out his Ipad to reach for an evidence that dont exist... he was like trying desperately to prove that margarito's gauge didnt look right poo hoo lol.. I understand how devastating it is to lose your first fight but dam take the loss like a man and stop looking for excuses!

He's a crybaby.. no wonder Tito is closer to Juanma.. there is no room for crying business in boxing.

Finito, criticizing a fighter like Cotto who has fought the best throughout his career for doing a catchweight and crying on TV makes you look like an idiot when you're defending a proven cheater in the same post. Margarito is a scumbag for doing what he did, and his reason for attempting it is down to lack of belief in his own ability to beat the best.

[FinitoElDinamita]

I lost respect when he started crying on HBO faceoff , going far as to pulling out his Ipad to reach for an evidence that dont exist... he was like trying desperately to prove that margarito's gauge didnt look right poo hoo lol.. I understand how devastating it is to lose your first fight but dam take the loss like a man and stop looking for excuses!

He's a crybaby.. no wonder Tito is closer to Juanma.. there is no room for crying business in boxing.

Finito, criticizing a fighter like Cotto who has fought the best throughout his career for doing a catchweight and crying on TV makes you look like an idiot when you're defending a proven cheater in the same post. Margarito is a scumbag for doing what he did, and his reason for attempting it is down to lack of belief in his own ability to beat the best.

Margarito got caught with substances in his glove against Mosley, not Cotto.. He's innocent until proven guilty in the court of law.

And to clear things up, this whole plaster controversy was so overblown it's not even funny.. There were traces of substance, we are talking about a pinch of powder so all these talks of him carrying bricks and brass knuckles are rubbish..

They didnt have any concrete evidence to convict margarito..

[TitoFan]

Seeing such bitterness out of an adolescent breaks my heart. Cotto has had a great career and is headed for the HOF. Margarito is a convicted cheater, and is probably telling his stories while serving fries at a Tijuana McDonalds.

Accept it and move on.

[Beanflicker]

159? wtf

[FinitoElDinamita]

159? wtf

It's a pussymove by kneeguel.

[powerpuncher]

159? wtf

It's a pussymove by kneeguel.

why is it so bad? cotto is a small 154 pounder and martinez is a small 160 pounder. at 159, cotto is still giving up quite a bit of weight and an extra pound isnt going to make much of a difference. martinez has always stated that he could fight at 154 if the fight was right. remember that he stayed at 160 because he was the champion. he wanted to move back down in weight.

[Beanflicker]

why is it so bad? cotto is a small 154 pounder and martinez is a small 160 pounder. at 159, cotto is still giving up quite a bit of weight and an extra pound isnt going to make much of a difference. martinez has always stated that he could fight at 154 if the fight was right. remember that he stayed at 160 because he was the champion. he wanted to move back down in weight.

You summed it up perfectly by saying "an extra poud isn't going to make much of a difference."

It's going to make absolutely no difference. It's just a cheap ploy to throw off Martinez's normal routine and make him extra miserable trying to adjust for that one pound. It's a ploy that Manny used on Cotto. It's bullshit, bush-league gamesmanship

Enough with the fucking catchweights. You can't fight a guy at his weight, don't challenge him. But a minus one lb catchweight? Cotto should be ashamed of himself.

[beenKOed]

How much money you get, the kind of trash talking you do, and especially what you do in the ring is where the real respect comes from, in my opinion.
You guys are arguing with each other about a pound that everyone says doesn't matter.
Ali was disrespectful. Broner is disrespectful.
Martinez and Cotto are having a difference of opinion about the main course for lunch in comparison.

[IamInuit]

Nice to see they got the reaction they wanted.

[Beanflicker]

How much money you get, the kind of trash talking you do, and especially what you do in the ring is where the real respect comes from, in my opinion.
You guys are arguing with each other about a pound that everyone says doesn't matter.
Ali was disrespectful. Broner is disrespectful.
Martinez and Cotto are having a difference of opinion about the main course for lunch in comparison.

Cotto should be bitch slapped for trying to get a 159 catchweight. That's the lamest condition I've ever heard for a fight. I thought 2lbs was bad… this is just some f*ggot bullshit.

And people shit on Floyd for demanding Olympic-style drug testing? Something that actually matters? Yeesh.

I've always liked Cotto but I hope Martinez takes this and knocks him out Paul Williams style in the first round.

[El Kabong]

159? wtf

It's a pussymove by kneeguel.

You're a fucking moron.

You keep saying Margarito hadn't been "caught" cheating before the Mosley fight. So by THAT rational you're saying Panama Lewis didn't give Aaron Pryor anything illegal when he fought Arguello and Lewis called for "the black bottle, the one I mixed"

Luis Resto also disclosed that Lewis would break apart pills used to treat asthma and pour the medicine into his water bottles, giving Resto greater lung capacity in the later rounds of a fight



But you were saying you ignorant little shitstain?