Pacquiao's camp to bat for 145-lb catchweight for Clottey fight!

so his team was shitting on him, and made him look bad all through the mayweather negotiations too, huh? i find it hard to believe pacman is just sitting somewhere, with his head up his ass, totally unaware of anything that goes on..... :nonono: by the way, roach is pacquiao's trainer...it's his job to get pacquiao in the best position to win fights....i doubt he's gonna come out and say he "doesn't want a catchweight for clottey." a catchweight is to their benefit..... I don't know dude. Pacquiao's going to speak sooner or later. I'm going to wait how this turns out and if he really is the one who wants to have the catchweight..... he'll definitely lose lots of his fans.. casual and hardcore fans alike

I'm tired of the catchweight thing, fight at 147 already

FYI, it's not Pacquiao himself whos demanding the catchweight, even Roach don't want NO catchweight for this fight... Only members from his team (i.e. Gacal) are making this ridiculous statements. I think pacman doesn't even know that his team has been shitting on him by making this stupid announcements so his team was shitting on him, and made him look bad all through the mayweather negotiations too, huh? i find it hard to believe pacman is just sitting somewhere, with his head up his ass, totally unaware of anything that goes on..... :nonono: by the way, roach is pacquiao's trainer...it's his job to get pacquiao in the best position to win fights....i doubt he's gonna come out and say he "doesn't want a catchweight for clottey." a catchweight is to their benefit.....

But Pacquiao is calling himself a WW, he holds a WW title, he should fight at the 147 limit. The 145 catchweight for Cotto was absurd, and so is this if it get's made at 145. Yep I agree, in some sense people around Pacquiao are bit scared except Roach as he knows Manny well than them. Hopefully it gets made at 147.

FYI, it's not Pacquiao himself whos demanding the catchweight, even Roach don't want NO catchweight for this fight... Only members from his team (i.e. Gacal) are making this ridiculous statements. I think pacman doesn't even know that his team has been shitting on him by making this stupid announcements

Thats pretty damn recent....its already thursday in the philliphines. If Pac fights Clottey at 145....Pac fans should abandon him....thats just as bad as Floyd fighting Campbell. No, Pacquiao fighting Soto at 147 would be the same as fighting Campbell at 147.

CLottey is not going to pass up on a shot at Pac and his biggest payday of his career. With that said pacs fans are going to say if he agreed to it then so be it there is no excuse if he loses. I dont have a problem with a catchweight for one mega fight like pac and cotto but for pac to ask another big welter to come down is bullshit he needs to get the phuck out of the WW division and fight at 140 he can fight Valero, Bradley, Amir Khan and Victor Ortiz or a trilogy with JMM this is crap and if it is true then I dont see how you can be a fan of a phony

Clottey has a really hard time making 147 as it is. This doesn't surprise me.

This is so stupid, who cares if Pac is a small WW, if he wants to fight there then that's his handicap. If he wanted to fight guys his size he should have stayed at 135 or 140. I agree the best fight would be Bradley imo.

Gacal's a snake. If pacman knows what's best for him, he should have already kick Gacal's a$$. Gacal does best in destroying Pacman's credibility and sucking away his money Pac should kick Gacal, Kunts, and Arum

the welterweight champion asking for catchweights.... thought i heard it all.

Gacal's a snake. If pacman knows what's best for him, he should have already kick Gacal's a$$. Gacal does best in destroying Pacman's credibility and sucking away his money

For the 20,000th time it not going to be at catch weight everyone (apart from you it appears) knows this.

Aren't those the same quotes from the articles from the other days that were already corrected? Just because a "new" article comes out using the same old quotes it doesn't make the article new.

If only Clottey agrees without hesitation I don't have a problem. Manny is a small welterweight. Clottey should insist on 147 if I where him though.

Hellllll no. This is the biggest bitch move in boxing history if Clottey fights at anything under 147. Clottey can barely make 147 and skyrockets to 170 in ONE day. How the hell can he make 145 without being severly dehydrated? Clottey would have to be deemed medically unable to fight if he went down that low.

Thats pretty damn recent....its already thursday in the philliphines. If Pac fights Clottey at 145....Pac fans should abandon him....thats just as bad as Floyd fighting Campbell. Well, if you arrived you call the shots *loooooooooooool*... Why isn't he fighting at 140 then??? There are good opponents

Pacquiao's camp to bat for 145-lb catchweight By Abac Cordero (The Philippine Star) Updated January 14, 2010 12:00 AM MANILA, Philippines - Manny Pacquiao wants Josh Clottey to trim down to 145 lb for their WBO welterweight title fight on March 13 in Texas. “We will push for 145 pounds just like in the Miguel Cotto fight,” said Pacquiao’s lawyer, Franklin Gacal, in an exclusive ABS-CBN interview yesterday. “We will push for that catchweight,” he added despite a statement earlier issued by chief trainer Freddie Roach that they’re ready to take on the former IBF welterweight champion at 147 lb. “These guys (Cotto and Clottey) are naturally bigger than Manny,” said Gacal. Pacquiao fought Cotto at a catchweight of 145 lb, weighed in at 144 and climbed the ring under 150. It’s the winning formula as far as Roach is concerned, and to the trainer two pounds less wouldn’t spell a difference. “I think Manny can fight Clottey at 147. He is the welterweight champion and therefore should fight anyone at 147,” said one of Pacquiao’s adviser, Wakee Salud. It may not be too good for Pacquiao’s image if he calls himself the welterweight champion but calls for a catchweight each time he fights. “Medyo hindi nga maganda. But as long as the opponents agree, then there’s nothing wrong with it,” said Salud. Against Cotto, Pacquiao proved that he can take any of the world’s best welterweights, and their punches as well. He took the best Cotto could offer and ended up knocking out the Puerto Rican in the 12th and final round. The Pacquiao vs Clottey showdown will take place at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, after a superfight with Floyd Mayweather Jr. bogged down due to a disagreement on the blood-testing procedure. Mayweather had wanted to keep the March 13 date at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, but reports came out yesterday that the fight had been pushed to April because HBO had decided to stick with the Pacquiao fight for its pay-per-view coverage. Mayweather’s camp said there’s no way the undefeated American will face Paulie Malignaggi and had shifted its focus to Nate Campbell. Thoughts?:burnup: Sorry, can't post the proper link yet coz as you can see, this is my first post. worldwideweb.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=540651&publicationSubCategoryId=69 I hope this is bullshit. cotto at a catchweight wasn't all that bad since he was a former 140 lbder and only weighed 146 in his last fight, but Clottey is bigger, 145 is bullshit.