Yep, he's a smart businessman too. I don't like these catchweights, that's all. Pac beat Hatton up fair and square and that was cool. I can give credit. Manny beat him up, Hatton was stupid but that's life. But to now try and use catchweights to secure advantages is really crappy and weak. It shows a Manny at the end of his limits trying to take what he can at the least cost. And as a purist, I just hate that.
Surely you would rather see the fight than not though?
If catchweights mean certain fights will happen then it's a good thing, no? And this is a great fight.
One year ago a fight between Cotto and Pac would have been laughed out of town - because obviously Pac would get killed. Now he's the favourite. Amazing.
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Of course I will watch. How could I not?
But it would mean that bit more if it was 147 no questions asked. That for me is the real fight and if Manny topples the man then all you can do is sit back and say "fair play".
As it is, we have debates like this that shouldn't be happening. It should be a 147 fight. Is Manny really that scared by a couple of pounds?
I think I will be supporting Cotto but Manny Pac deserves credit for stepping up to welter legitimately.
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i gave credit to Manny for the Hatton win, i gave him FULL credit, and IF, and that's a big IF he manages to beat Cotto, unless there is some huge bullshit like a wrong decision or whatever other crap, i'll give him full credit also, stop making Manny a victim, he's far from it
I have a feeling that whatever happens on fight night, this thread will be bumped back up for someone to gloat
When was the last time pac beat someone who was coming off a dominant win? It seems like alot of his wins come after his opponent has had a less then impressive showing in their last fight or have lost. Dela hoyas last win was against forbes and he didnt exactly go and knock forbes out, outboxed him for 12 rounds but it wasnt an awesome jaw dropping performance.To make matters worse Dela Hoya didnt just fight terrible, he looked terrible. It was quite obvious he was weight drained and i dont think anyone can dispute that. Ricky Hatton looked less then impressive against Malignaggi and had bad moments against a light hitting Lazcano. Diaz had a majority decision win against montano and a close fight against Morales and was never going to beat pac. Morales looked terrible against zaheem and even gets beaten and pac destroys him afterwards.
All of these wins are the ones he has looked nothing short of awesome in. These are the wins that had all pac fans screaming that we had a new god
Now before someone jumps up and calls me a hater, i have nothing against pac. He is without a doubt an awesome fighter. I have picked against him in his last 2 fights, was i sad he won? No. I thought he would lose, not hoped he would lose. But these are the obvious observations. You want to know why hes having trouble getting credit, these are the reasons. You drain a guy until he can barely throw a punch, of course he isnt going to put up a good fight. Hatton was always going to get sparked it was just a matter of when. I thought his chin would hold and i thought if he could fight smart and wear him down but I was wrong especially with hatton rushing in the way he did.
So if we had of known dela hoya would be extremely weight drained before the fight, if it was known 100% that he would be weight drained before the fight...would it of been that big of a shock to us all that pac would pepper him with fast combos all night until it was stopped? If we had of known hattons punch resistance was not all that great these days before the fight, would we of been shocked by such a knock out? The answer is no! Because we all knew pac had the tools to beat these guys, just the right factors would have to be there for to happen.
I think Cotto is a quart low ever since the Margarito fight, I know he did not look overly impressive agianst Clottey. But Clottey had alot to do with that by having a granite chin and good boxing skills. What I did notice about Cotto he looked a little slower in the hand speed department. Which Manny has plenty it will be a good fight whoever can make thier opponent fight thier fight wins, odds are 2-1 for Pacman we shall see.
The problem is that if you are considered the pound for pound king, then you should not be fighting at or demanding catchweights. Because this fight is at a catchweight, Manny is losing some respect, especially if Manny wins against Cotto, whom we all know had weight issues in the past below 147.
I certainly think Cotto is still good and definitely not washed up (he has been fighting the top welterweights for some time now-of course not all of those fights will be resounding successes). I also do not think that Manny can fuk with Cotto's power, jab, body attack, and ring intelligence. It will take Cotto about two rounds to adjust to Manny's speed and feel how much power he has, and after that, it will get brutal for Manny. So if Manny wins, I will give him credit, even at 145, a weight that will allow Cotto to retain whatever speed he has AND his well-known power.
At first I had a problem with catchweights but then there has been quite a few catchweight fights in boxing history and former p4p kings like De La Hoya and Ray Leonard has done it.
Hell I didn't even know that JCC and Whitaker fought at a catchweight in '93, I thought it was just a welterweight fight and so did many people, but it was a catchweight at 145 just like this fight, except that fight was between the no.1 and no. 2 p4p fighters at that time. That was still a great fight even if it was at a catchweight.
would you give cotto full credit if he beat the smaller pac at 147? why don't they just fight at 140 so that cotto would get tons of credit and manny's belt at the same time? well anyway, this fight isn't for any belt i heard so i don't see why a couple of pounds would matter. if cotto wins at 145 he'd get more credit than if the fight is at 147.
Cotto couldn't make 140 unless they cut off half an arm.
I question the validity of the catchweight. Like I say if Manny wants to fight the WW's then he should go to 147. I don't care about belts or any of that. I like the parameters we have in boxing, I like the weight classes we currently have and would like fighters to adhere to them. If 2 pounds is really nothing then why has Manny demanded it? Because he is ekeing out any advantage that he can. There are few big paydays at 140 and Manny is on the cash out stage of his career. Cotto has agreed to it too, so in that regard you could say what is the problem? Both fighters are recieving huge pay days for this fight and the fans are going to get a fight they want. But that 2 pounds difference will always be there.
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