Manny and Roach want Cotto to make 145, why not just fight at 147. henry armstrong and sam langford would never moan and ask for catchweights bouts, hank and langford would often give away lots of weight, but didnt care. when napoles fought huge middlweight carlos monzon he didnt make monzon come in at catch weight, when robinson fought jake lamotta, robinson didnt ask for a catch weight and gave away 16 pound.
makes me laugh how, how freddie and manny are moaning for cotto to get down to 145, if they want to fight best cotto,fight him at 147, by making him get down to 145 he isn't fighting the best miguel cotto, langford or armstrong would never have done this!
i feel if the fight is made at 147, cotto would beat him. manny is a great fighter. but is letting me down with these daft catchweight fights, the likes of armstrong and langford would be turning in there grave's.
no, the only real difference is that Armstrong and Langford really weighed the amount they fought at.
Pacquiao had been a 147lber since(or before) he went to 130.
Not like its a bad thing, thats just how it is in this day and age. its a lot easier to jump weight when you have a full day to rehydrate before the fight. its not too uncommon for only so-so fighters to go up in weight drastically and still be successful.
what Pacquiao has done is still outstanding, but just keep in mind that when it comes to jumping weight, fighters nowadays have a HUGE advantage compared to the guys that fought during the same-day-weighin eras.