Quote Originally Posted by generalbulldog View Post
Hopkins coming down to 158 at age 39 against Oscar and being a massively big body Middleweight is considered to be an easy thing to do, but Cotto at 29 years old and in his physical prime years coming in at 144 or 145 is considered to be weight draining? That doesn't sound right. That's inconsistent logic.
I said he was making 160 easy and the fact that he made 158 at 39 supports this. I admit the word easy is an understatement as only a man like Hopkins could make it easy due to his life style... But that's Hopkins. Everyone is different. Its no contardiction to say, for example, that Vargas couldn't get down to 154.

Its all down to the individual. Cotto was struggling at 140 and has thrived at 146.

Back to Hopkins. Also the MANOR in which Hopkins went about moving up to Light Heavyweight strongly suggests that his body was fine at 160. He looked fine in his fights against Taylor.