De La Hoya: Pacquiao makes fighters lose on the scales 1st

[erics44]

I hate all these catchweights and wish Manny would stop playing games with them, but having said that DLH should be the last person to be criticising Manny on this.

Cotto at 145 was unfair, but Cotto should have turned it down. Likewise, I hope Marquez sees sense and stays away from Pac if it is anything above 140. It is just not worth it. At 37 he cannot handle the weight like the younger Manny can. Marquez is a naturally smaller fighter.

Was it really relevant though? Cotto only weighed 146 for his fight against Joshua Clottey.

I don't really called losing a single pound a deal breaker. I know (as AdamGB will doubtless explain to me) a certain point below which fighters cannot drop, but 145 isn't it for Cotto. He has come up from the lower weights and weighed as low as 136 against Mallignaggi in June 2006.

Cotto would have got massacred catchweight or not, and only would have weighed a pound more.

The idea that Manny always fights at catchweight is completely overblown. Oscar wasn't a catchweight, it was at 147. Hatton wasn't at catchweight, it was at junior welter, Ricky's weight class. Clottey wasn't at catchweight either, it was at welter. Margarito was at 150 lbs but I don't see how this was at a detriment to Margarito considered he weighed under 146 against Shane Mosley only two fights previously.


Critics and moaners will always exist, but what Manny has done has been sensational.

if that was the case then why bother?

it has put question marks over the win for pac against cotto but if they were just arguing over 1 pound then it hardly seems worth it

[Stale_hotdog]

Just a bunch of horseshit coming out of Oscars mouth as usual. What was that crap about him feeling faster moving down to 147 on 24/7. He was still the A side fighter in their match up he had the lions share. He made Manny move up two divisions they didn't fight at a catch weight they fought at the welterweight limit. It's so typical of him just like the crap he said about the negotiations with the mayweather pacquaio fight. "Oh I just said there were negotiations to get the media off my back." I liked the fighter De La Hoya was but the promoter De La Hoya is an asshat.

[Hornfinger]

Don't like DLH but he's got this 100% right.

[Youngblood]

lol I have the real ODLH on facebook, and right after his fight with Manny, he was all looking for god and friends for support with this misty-eyed butt hurt talk reekin of insecurity...and yea know, I could understand it then. Even felt empathy for him after calling No Mas with the beating he was taking. It was the defining moment of the end of his career. That's a tough pill to swallow for a warrior heart.

Now he just sounds like a bitter sissy. Move the hell on dude.