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    Default Re: Catch weight fights. Like them, hate them, don't care, or undecided?

    Quote Originally Posted by Primo Carnera View Post
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    Catchweights are ok for making some decent match ups, but let's not kid ourselves, it is impossible to make a good argument for any title fight having a catchweight. There are weight divisions for a reason, fucking 17 of them!!!
    The worst thing is that the governing bodies actually allow it.

    If the fight is for a title, by definition it is not a catchweight fight!
    Well you would think so wouldn't you? So how do you define the Cotto v Geale fight? It was for a title, and there was a 157lb weight limit.
    My point is that the WBC shouldn't have sanctioned it as a title fight.
    Both fighters weighed 160 or under, thus it was a Middleweight title fight...

    Nearly thirty years ago the WBC were sanctioning a title fight for two different weights; if the money is right there is no issue.

    A catchweight fight is when for example a 199lbs fighter fights in a non title fight against a 165lbs boxer. If it were for a title; if sanction it would be a 'Cruiserweight' fight.
    Last edited by Britkid; 10-21-2015 at 03:47 AM.
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