Comments Thread For: WBC Prez: Cotto Questioning Rule That Made Him Champ

[OnePunch]

Didn't they pull something similar to Martinez?

Actually Martinez paid step aside $$$ to Rubio to allow Martinez-Cotto to happen......

[RIZO24]

Cotto is just a little *****! He became middleweight champion by paying a step aside fee to Rubio so he could fight a one leg Martinez and then payed Golovkin to step aside so he can defend against Geale and now against Canelo. He should be unrecognized as a middle weight champion. I always also questioned how he came up from 147 to fight Yuri Foreman, also a one leg bum, for the WBA 154 championship when he had never fought a legit 154 contender. Cotto is just a fake ass mother****er who is gonna get destroyed by Canelo in the same fashion as when his two daddys Maragrito and Pacquiao ****ed him up.. Karma is gonna be a ***** for Cotto come Saturday!

[paypayvay]

That's an irrelevant difference/distinction. Its still 1.1 million out of cotto pocket.

Lol at the amount of butthurt from cotto saying 'fuk your trinket'

it's not irrelevant .

he's acting as if he's being shaken down by the WBC when the majority of that 1.1 million is essentially a ducking fee he agreed to pay to his mandatory challenger . why didn't he say " fuc your trinket " then ?

it was always apparent that step aside payment + sanctioning fees from a large purse will amount to a large sum of money .. why are some people acting as if this is an unheard of practice or an unusual case ? you guys remember when Tyson paid Lewis more than 4 millions to step aside back in 1996 ?

it's actually a good move by Cotto . he'll save money and will avoid a potentially dangerous opponent without losing face all while getting people riled up behind his fake crusade against the big bad sanctioning bodies .

[~AK49~]

it's not irrelevant .

he's acting as if he's being shaken down by the WBC when the majority of that 1.1 million is essentially a ducking fee he agreed to pay to his mandatory challenger . why didn't he say " fuc your trinket " then ?

it was always apparent that step aside payment + sanctioning fees from a large purse will amount to a large sum of money .. why are some people acting as if this is an unheard of practice or an unusual case ? you guys remember when Tyson paid Lewis more than 4 millions to step aside back in 1996 ?

it's actually a good move by Cotto . he'll save money and will avoid a potentially dangerous opponent without losing face all while getting people riled up behind his fake crusade against the big bad sanctioning bodies .

He basically did, in a more diplomatic way. How did you take 'I don't need or want your belt'?

He said fuk paying 1.1 mil for your belt, and people have sand in their vaginas over cotto.

[paypayvay]

He basically did, in a more diplomatic way. How did you take 'I don't need or want your belt'?

He said fuk paying 1.1 mil for your belt, and people have sand in their vaginas over cotto.

It was basically a face saving maneuver that worked brilliantly.

Vacate the belt after the Geale fight ? a bad look and a clear duck .
Vacate the belt after beating Canelo ? a bad look and a clear duck .

have the belt stripped from you few days before a big fight after refusing to pay agreed upon fees and have everybody blame the unpopular sanctioning body and support your crusade against " greed" in boxing ? WIN .

Team Cotto are a shrewd bunch .

[STREET CLEANER]

It was basically a face saving maneuver that worked brilliantly.

Vacate the belt after the Geale fight ? a bad look and a clear duck .
Vacate the belt after beating Canelo ? a bad look and a clear duck .

have the belt stripped from you few days before a big fight after refusing to pay agreed upon fees and have everybody blame the unpopular sanctioning body and support your crusade against " greed" in boxing ? WIN .

Team Cotto are a shrewd bunch .

I guess 1.1 million dollars is chump change for you

[paypayvay]

I guess 1.1 million dollars is chump change for you

Again ,that's something team Cotto knew about after the Geale fight .
Paying your mandatory challenger to step aside was never cheap ( Tyson-Lewis example ) , and the sanctioning fees are at a fixed % of the purse , naturally the bigger the purse the bigger the fee .

i'm actually praising Team Cotto here, vacating after defeating Geale would've made him look bad .

[OnePunch]

It was basically a face saving maneuver that worked brilliantly.

Vacate the belt after the Geale fight ? a bad look and a clear duck .
Vacate the belt after beating Canelo ? a bad look and a clear duck .

have the belt stripped from you few days before a big fight after refusing to pay agreed upon fees and have everybody blame the unpopular sanctioning body and support your crusade against " greed" in boxing ? WIN .

Team Cotto are a shrewd bunch .

except now Team Cotto is looking more like the 3 Stooges. First off, he's gonna have to pay GGG the $800k anyways. And now both Rafael and Kim are reporting that Canelo is demanding a bigger split as we speak because Cotto is not champ anymore.

So it seems its an epic dunce move to go through all this to try and save 175k (out of maybe $20 million or more).

[STREET CLEANER]

Again ,that's something team Cotto knew about after the Geale fight .
Paying your mandatory challenger to step aside was never cheap ( Tyson-Lewis example ) , and the sanctioning fees are at a fixed % of the purse , naturally the bigger the purse the bigger the fee .

i'm actually praising Team Cotto here, vacating after defeating Geale would've made him look bad .

What is it you don't understand? From 125K it went all the way to 1.1 million.

Plus what you rather see. Canelo/Cotto or triple G vs any of those two.

In addition they did not need a belt to make this fight any more profitable than what it is. The belts are meaningless. Look how long Mr G has been the mandatory and don't get me started all the shinanigans that HBO and the WBC did to Martinez when he had the belt

[OnePunch]

What is it you don't understand? From 125K it went all the way to 1.1 million.

Plus what you rather see. Canelo/Cotto or triple G vs any of those two.

In addition they did not need a belt to make this fight any more profitable than what it is. The belts are meaningless. Look how long Mr G has been the mandatory and don't get me started all the shinanigans that HBO and the WBC did to Martinez when he had the belt

Correct. But what you are missing is that COTTO needed the belt in order to get a better money split from Canelo. With no title to offer, this fight would have been 50-50, or maybe even 60-40 Canelo's way. The title gave Cotto the leverage to get more money, and thats why he made the step-aside deal with GGG. He figured the 800k would be worth several million in his pocket from a better split