Cotto's welterweight belt is on the line!!!

[match]

You almost have to wonder why there's still even weight divisions any more since so many fights lately take place at catch weights.

[Kev]

You almost have to wonder why there's still even weight divisions any more since so many fights lately take place at catch weights.

Catchweights only occur when champions from different divisions meet. It's not big deal imo. Hopkins was 175 champ Pavlik 160, meet at 170 why is that a problem? Nobody really gives a tuppeny fuck about an alphabet belt anyway.

@ Killersheep, I didn't understand your point about a 145 lb not being valid as a welterweight fight. If a fighter wishes to weigh in at 145 he is perfectly allowed to, he can weigh in at at 141 if he likes.

You keep talking about the rules being changed to set a max limit of 145 but the rules arn't being changed at all. Cotto is AGREEING to come in at 145, he's not being ordered to. It's an agreement between two fighters, both who are happy with the arrangement so what does it have to do with anybody else?

Let me clarify that some more. If Cotto came in over the 145 limit, the fight won't get cancelled, he won't have broken the WBO regulations. All that will happen is that he will have broken the contract with Manny, and would likely have to pay him lots of cash. It has nothing at all to do with the WBO or Cotto and Manny changing the max weight limits for the welterweight division, they don't have the power to do that, it's simply a seperate agreement and should Cotto violate it, he breaks the contract with Manny NOT the WBO.

It's a shame the sanctioning fees arn't being paid, although $400,000 is a lot of dough to cough up.

It wouldn't suprise me Manny really wants that belt that he might pay the fees himself?

If not, well then he probably doesn't care.

It would be nice for him to be a bonafida seven weight world champ but it doesn't really matter, people refer to Calzaghe as a two weight world champ but there was no significant belt on the line against Hopkins either.

Anyhoo, cannot wait for the fight, it's gonna be a barnburner.