Quote Originally Posted by fan johnny View Post
You guys are so full of it! Weight advantages are just part of the game. Some play the game better than others. As a clear example "Paul Williams" has been fighting "welterweight" two weight-classes below where he should have been beating smaller guys. Hatton is another example of a fighter that has been taking advantage of smaller fighters. Unless the 24-hour weigh-in is changed to a 2-hour weigh-in then the weight thing will be an advantage some fighters can use. Roach is playing hard in the negotiations, because Mosley campaigning hard for Mega bout. Catch weight is the best Mosley can do and Roach already said after the De La Hoya fight 144lbs.
Here's the difference. Roach is putting all these weight requirements like DLH had to come down to 147, Mosley has to come down to 142, Cotto has to come down to 140, etc. These guys haven't been able to make these weights in many years! This isn't a Paul Williams or Ricky Hatton coming to a "weight class" and fighting guys at that weight class and it working out as them being the bigger fighter. Paul and Ricky have been making these weights and have been effective there. That is the real difference. Roach is asking full fledged bigger guys to come down to a point where they are weight drained and ineffective. Do you notice he has a different weight for each of the 3 fighters? That is his guess at where they will be weight drained. He gladly fought DLH at 147 but a real welterweight he all of a sudden won't. Hell, if Bernard Hopkins came down to welterweight I'd fight him. It sounds good on paper having that name on your resume but thats it.