Can one really be ranked P4P when you demand catch weights?

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makes perfect sense to me... it's not about them being too physically big... it's about them being drained.

154 guys will most likely be drained at 147 so it's OK to fight them at that.

147 guys obviously wouldn't be drained at 147 so I guess we'll have to drag them down a bit lower.

Roach isn't stupid... and luckily for him the team have the $$$ ability to pull it off.

oh what a PPV shaped golden carrot will get people willing to do just to get a peice of it.

Finally a logical and obvious answer. Its to drain them plain and simple...Way to say it instead of trying to disguise it as "a compromise"

That's like if roy jones after beating ruiz, said "I want to fight lennox lewis but he has to come down to 210", then he wouldn't have been fighting lewis, he'd be fighting a shell of lewis.

Why would Lewis have to drop to 210 lbs? Lewis weighed in around 240 lbs so why are you making him drop 30 lbs?

The proposed catchweight from Manny asks Cotto to drop 2 single lbs.

So are you saying if Roy Jones agreed to fight Lennox Lewis but only if Lewis dropped 2 lbs and weighed in at no more than 238 lbs you wouldn't have been impressed?

As they are bigger so lbs count less lets make it 5 lbs, double the amount Cotto has to drop. Lewis had to weigh in at no more than 235 lbs would you be complaining that Jones was a coward and a pussy?

Seriously now if Jones agreed to fight Lennox Lewis as long as Lewis agreed to come in under 235 lbs the fight would have meant to nothing to you and Jones was a pussy?

You guys are unreal

Don't quite understand how you come to that conclusion, but no one was suggesting that...and much like someone has already mentioned that at the smaller weights 2,3,4,5 pounds can be the difference its takes to give one a significant advantage. Much like asking a fighter that hasn't fought below a certain weight in over a decade to drop below that weight will make him weaker. Possibly even fatigued from over training. You can sell that "it's only two pounds" some where else. Because anyone that's done training in prep for a fight knows that if you're already struggling to make the 147 limit. That 3 or four more pounds will absolutely exhaust you.


Fact is pac has fought at 142 more recently than cotto and looked good at the weight. Cotto hasn't fought below 146 in three years. So given those facts its not really a compromise. Because PACMAN will be more comfortable at the weight than Cotto thus giving him an advantage.