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

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I liked the quote used by YB the other day. You know you've made it when you got haters.

Almost no one said anything about the other catchweights that were fought, besides 1 or 2 at the most.

Oscar-Hopkins at 156?

Chavez-Whitaker at 145? Hardly a moan.

Leonard-Lalonde at 168? Hardly a moan.

Hopkins-wright and Pavlik at 170? Hardly a moan.

Taylor-Pavlik at 166? Hardly a moan.

Taylor-Norris at 150? Hardly a moan.

Williams-Marinez at 158? hardly a moan.

But with Pacquiao it's a problem and considered to be breaking the rules of boxing.
ANd if the guys think it's unfair to come down in weight. Then don't sign the contract. No one forced them to. And if they did complain, then take responsibility for accepting the terms.

BTW no one forced Oscar to fight Manny, it was Oscar that wanted to fight a guy that just jumped 3 divisions within a year and was only taking 32% of the fight purse and ppv money. Oscar was never forced to do anything in his boxing career. He was always the A side of the draw and had the upper hand in negotiations. And that includes his fight with Manny.

In those fights listed how many of the guys coming DOWN to the weight lost?

I think in all of those fights the favourite won. Having watched many of them I don't see that weight drain was a factor in any of the fights I saw. You presumably disagree?

My point was actually going to be the guy coming down in weight won the majority of those fights, I think hopkins won all of his on that list and that's why no fuss was made. that can't be said for the Pacquiao fights. In all of those the guy coming down looked weak and slow and got a one sided beating and that's why a fuss was kicked up

You think the out come of Hagler vs Leonard would have been the same if they had had the weight stipulations?

The result isn't what matters because that's always in 20/20 hindsite. If Cotto had beat Pacquiao, he would have been still forced to make a lower weight, the nefarious reason behind the weight dropping was still there. Right? You are upset because of the reason behind having the catchweight, to have someone lose weight so that the fighter is less effective, and his opponent having an unfair advantage. Right? If that is the case, what Williams did with Martinez is just as bad because it was for that exact same reason.

In my opinion, the only fight Pacquiao had where I thought they maybe did that for that reason was the Cotto fight. Margarito was a career welterweight, 150 actually is probably his ideal weight. Pacquiao fought Hatton at Hatton's natural weight - 140, Mayweather made Hatton come up to 147. Pac met ODLH at a middle point, and don't forget, ODLH was heavily favored going into that fight. Clottey was at 147.

Of course it matters who wins. That's the whole point of boxing. No ones going to make a fuss when a big guy comes down a couple of pounds and beats a little guy. Because it's expected. However when a big guy has to come down in weight and then looks and fights like a damn zombie, of course people are going to say something.

I don't need to discredit pacquiao because the FACTS speak for themselves.

What facts are we talking about here. Only thing you've been saying is highly subjective. That both cotto and margarito were weight drained/zombies etc. Both those guys weren't complaining about weight issues and they obviously weren't zombies.

As for ODLH, the guy had it coming. Now that's zombie. But lo and behold, you'd still blame it on pac "forcing" him to go down to 147.