Sorry for another Pacquiao thread, but this pissed me off

[Gandalf]

Pacquiao's last weigh-in was at 144 lbs. and that the highest weigh-in weight he has done so far. Team Pacquiao is asking for a 145 lbs. weigh-in for the Floyd fight. It's 1 lb more than Pacquiao's highest weigh-in weight.

I think Team Floyd is considerable enough to agree at least at 146 lbs., his last weigh-in weight.

If Pac is more comfortable at 144 then let him do that, if Floyd is more comfortable at 147 then let him do that. We should have two athletes at their optimum weight and let the fans have the fight they want for once. No dilly dallying over weight. If Manny wants to be a WW then he should learn to handle the weight or else go back down to JWW.

That's totally wrong for it means JMM can come at 135 against Floyd who can come at 147 or Pacquiao coming in at 140 against Cotto who can come in at 147. I think you can clearly see that there has to be a compromise weight somewhere in the middle like 144 for Floyd-JMM and 145 for Pacquiao-Cotto.

I think 145 is just fine and fair for Floyd-Pacquiao fight.

It's not wrong because it is adhering to the weight classes that we all recognise. In this case the WW limit. Of course, it would never be acceptable to have LW Marquez fighting a WW Mayweather. That wasn't what I was arguing anyway.

I think a cap at 147 is perfectly acceptable and if either party wants to come in lighter than that then fair enough. I don't see anything controversial in what I am saying here.