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

[InTheNeutralCorner]

As a man of principles I wouldn't sell out

Good for you.

If you were offered a 12 round fight to secure your retirement, then you most likely would.

Yes, I definitely would. And if I'm on top of the boxing world and can dictate a catchweight so that my opponents doesn't have undue advantage, then I also would. You most likely would, too.

Sure, they have fought Pac, but they have fought him at weights neither of them were used to. Not even Margarito.

For you to come up with that statement (in bold), I am sure that you know what were the actual fight weights (not the 24 hr weight in) of Cotto or Margarito in their last three fights. I did not hear you complain about them not being comfortable in their actual fighting weight prior to the Pacquiao fight so surely there is a remarkable difference in those actual weights. Do you know what their actual fight weights were so that I may understand your contention?

You say that people will not remember. Okay, Bilbo has blacked out the past. But people like me don't and there are a lot of us. Sure Pac is exciting, but there are question marks and people who aren't into propaganda will question him.

But a lot of the people like you (and that includes me) and those who aren't into propaganda today would most likely not even be alive 50 years from now. The future generations would not be thinking of catchweights when they hear about Pacquiao as much as not a lot of people even knows that Henry Armstrong had been in a catchweight. Now that I know about it, I don't even care. I still put Henry Armstrong in high regard.