Ok I won't reply to every point but just a few.

To those who say if Pacquaio wants to fight at welterweight then he should fight at welterweight are missing the point.

Pacquaio doesn't want to fight at welterweight he wants to fight Cotto.

Cotto isn't soley a welterweight, the majority of his career was at junior welter hence he is a junior welter/welterweight.

Manny doesn't give a tuppeny fuck about the WBO welterweight title he wants the prestige of beating the eliter juniorwelter/welter Miguel Cotto.

Both are P4P stars, they are NOT soley single division stars.

The weight class isn't important.

It doesn't taint the purity of the sport in any way. Having Juan Urango as a light welter world champ because Paulie Malignaggi wouldn't pay enough sanctioning fees to these greedy organistations is what taints the sport.

Manny Pacqauio is both bigger and better for the sport than the WBO welterweight strap.

No fan in the world cares about the history or heritage of that belt or any other.

When you watch a fight you arn't watching to see how the history of the WBO belt is going to unfurl they may as well be fighting for marbles or cream eggs, it just doesn't matter.

Manny vs Cotto is one of the biggest and best fights that can be made in our sport, from both a commercial and entertainment point of view, (to say nothing of legacy for both fighters) and anybody who would rather this didn't happen than to see the purity of the WBO belt heritage tarnished is just a complete idiot.

It doesn't matter that its at catchweight, not one single bit. It's still a megafight.

Shall we erase the Leanoard Hearns fight from our memory because it was a catchweight? What about the Gatti Ward trilogy?

Just get over it already, Manny and Cotto are both terrific fighters and a matchup between them would be a tremendous boxing event not just for purists but also for casual fans.

Its the kind of fight that can give boxing a massive shot in the arm but you guys would rather uphold some stupid traditions that don't even apply in a p4p fight between fighters of DIFFERENT weight classes.

Manny can fight at 135, 140, 147 he doesn't exist soley in any single division he is a p4p star.

Miguel can fight at 140 or 147, again he doesn't exist soley in any single division he is a p4p star.

Whether its at 145 or 147 is irelevent. Whether that height of prestige, the much coveted WBO strap is on the line is also irelevent.

It's all about two p4p stars meeting in the ring and giving us one hell of a fight.