Quote Originally Posted by shza
Quote Originally Posted by Majesty
I remember not too long ago when I was reading the topics here people were saying that Cotto suffered a "boxers injury" to his hand in the Malignaggi fight and that it was the only reason he didnt KO him and that he had to be passive in order to do that.

So why is Mayweather a punk for having to do the same?
IMO, the only punk here is ODH for basically stipulating a handycap into the contract. Clearly he only wants Floyd to wear "punchers' gloves" because he's hoping Floyd will injure his hands and then he won't have to deal with a 100% Floyd. It would be one thing if ODH just wanted to be allowed to wear Reyes himself, but it's bullshit to include in the contract provisions concerning what gloves your opponent can wear--and it indicates that the person forcing in this provision isn't confident he can win on skill alone.
To be honest both De La Hoya and Floyd always try to gain an advantage like this in important fights.

I don't know if you remember but Floyd moved up to light weight then when the fight with Coralles came through he moved back down to 130 because he didnt want to allow Coralles the extra weight.

Not that there was anything wrong with that but he certainly wanted Coralles to be as weight drained as possible.
Once he had beaten him, Floyd moved back up again