Roach says "Manny will fight shane at 142 not 147"

[AdamGB]

BTW, what's the fuzz about catchweights?? If the boxers agreed to fight in a catchweight then he believed he can win that fight in that catchweight...

Or he was forced to agree to a catchweight because the other boxer has more say, has more negotiating power, more popular and dictates the conditions of the fight...

Simple as that...
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So first you say that Mosely wants to fight at 142 (It has nothing to do with getting a paid of course) and then you say that he has to fight at 142 because Pac is the bigger name right now.



Either way he is getting coaxed past his fighting weight with the promise of a massive Pay Day... Roach knows exactly what he is doing... don't see how even the biggest pac groupie can deny it.

[XaduBoxer]

BTW, what's the fuzz about catchweights?? If the boxers agreed to fight in a catchweight then he believed he can win that fight in that catchweight...

Or he was forced to agree to a catchweight because the other boxer has more say, has more negotiating power, more popular and dictates the conditions of the fight...

Simple as that...
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So first you say that Mosely wants to fight at 142 (It has nothing to do with getting a paid of course) and then you say that he has to fight at 142 because Pac is the bigger name right now.



Either way he is getting coaxed past his fighting weight with the promise of a massive Pay Day... Roach knows exactly what he is doing... don't see how even the biggest pac groupie can deny it.

No and no... Fact is it's Roach who wants Mosley to fight PAC at 142 and Mosley said he can't do it... End of story...

My post above didn't refer to any boxer or boxers in particular... It's a general opinion of mine that if a boxer agrees to fight at a certain agreed "catchweight" then of course that boxer believes that he can both make the weight and win the fight...

If the boxer thinks he can't make the weight and/or win the fight then he shouldn't accept the fight...
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[AdamGB]

BTW, what's the fuzz about catchweights?? If the boxers agreed to fight in a catchweight then he believed he can win that fight in that catchweight...

Or he was forced to agree to a catchweight because the other boxer has more say, has more negotiating power, more popular and dictates the conditions of the fight...

Simple as that...
.

So first you say that Mosely wants to fight at 142 (It has nothing to do with getting a paid of course) and then you say that he has to fight at 142 because Pac is the bigger name right now.



Either way he is getting coaxed past his fighting weight with the promise of a massive Pay Day... Roach knows exactly what he is doing... don't see how even the biggest pac groupie can deny it.

No and no... Fact is it's Roach who wants Mosley to fight PAC at 142 and Mosley said he can't do it... End of story...

My post above didn't refer to any boxer or boxers in particular... It's a general opinion of mine that if a boxer agrees to fight at a certain agreed "catchweight" then of course that boxer believes that he can both make the weight and win the fight...

If the boxer thinks he can't make the weight and/or win the fight then he shouldn't accept the fight...
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yeah and my point is that even if they have doubts over making the weight or performing well at it, the millions of dollars that are on the table are enough to make them reconsider... Roach knows this which is why he's trying to talk these guys down so Pac can look good against another weight drained Marquee name...

If Roach is so confident in Pac's ability against these bigger fighters he should be letting them fight at their weight... so they won't fuck about.
Fight against 147 pound fighters or fight against 140 pound fighters... either way just shut your face and do it properly.

[AdamGB]

Exactly JT... you don't see PBF dragging ODLH down a weight class or even knocking a few pounds off 154 and having a catchweight.

FLoyd wasn't big enough to get to 154... he knew he was going to come in at 149-150 but he let oscar fight at his weight anyway.

One things for sure: Oscar didn't have to rehydrate using an IV line against Floyd... shame he did against Pacquio.

[fan johnny]

What! People were saying Pacquiao is too small to fight at 147? Hell they were saying that he was too small for 140.