Gabriel Rosado: "catchweights is b1tch sh1t.."

Gabe Rosado is a badass

yeah, he refused a CW, good for him but this guy is huge for his division anyways. let's see him fight at smw and not demand a cw all of a sudden he think's he's the sh1t :lol1: :lol1: no matter how you cut it man, titles are not supposed to be at stake in a cw fight..what Gabe said is true!!

Yea manny!

Not the way I would've said it, but yeah, I hate catch-weights too. If you're gonna fight a titlist, it should never be at a catch-weight. I knew that Rosado wouldn't stand for that.

With weight classes everywhere, its a shame to ask for a catchweight, if u want to challenge somebody you fight them at there weight class wether its higher or lower, u want that guy in ur record or his title u have to fight him at the weight he is champ Just like Dawson did vs Ward he called out Ward, he wanted to fight Ward n he made the weight to 168 like a true champ and that worked out well for him......his camp did ask for a catchweight of 170, but ward's team turned it down though. it would have helped a bit if there was a catchweight for that fight considering dawson had to drain himself down 6 or 7 lbs from his last weigh-in to make 168..and people ***** and moan about cotto draining down to 145 even though he was 146 in his last fight.

i don't think the 2 lbs would mean much in this case. in some cases, 2 lbs can be the difference between victory and defeat. brandon rios could never make 133 when he was fighting as a LW. he was drainiung himself down to nothing to make 135. 32 more ounces of liquid to shed would probably put him in the hospital. he'd never even make it to the fight. golovkin isn't a huge MW. he's done growing. he's said that he's comfortable even at 154. i don't think the 158 catchweight would mean much. he was 159 in his last fight, and 158.5 a couple of fights before that one. they list him at 5'11, which is total nonsense. he's about 5'9" or 5'10 max. still, though, rosado is giving up an advantage, whether it's mentally or physically, he'd get an edge from bringing golovkin down. it's a small victory. rosado is a badass for even fighting this guy. nobody wanted the fight. rosado moved up a weigh to take it. huge props to him for that. now he's back on HBO and getting five or six figures. go get that money, big gabe. this is one of those fights where you like both guys so much that you just want to see a good fight, and nobody getting to badly hurt. this is the hurt business, though, and sombody is going to get his clock cleaned. agreed. good post.......

Golovkin has got this.

I love his confidence and I'll be pulling for him for sure. I wouldn't be shocked at all if he pulls the upset, because Golovkin's resume is trash.

i don't think the 2 lbs would mean much in this case. in some cases, 2 lbs can be the difference between victory and defeat. brandon rios could never make 133 when he was fighting as a LW. he was drainiung himself down to nothing to make 135. 32 more ounces of liquid to shed would probably put him in the hospital. he'd never even make it to the fight. golovkin isn't a huge MW. he's done growing. he's said that he's comfortable even at 154. i don't think the 158 catchweight would mean much. he was 159 in his last fight, and 158.5 a couple of fights before that one. they list him at 5'11, which is total nonsense. he's about 5'9" or 5'10 max. still, though, rosado is giving up an advantage, whether it's mentally or physically, he'd get an edge from bringing golovkin down. it's a small victory. rosado is a badass for even fighting this guy. nobody wanted the fight. rosado moved up a weigh to take it. huge props to him for that. now he's back on HBO and getting five or six figures. go get that money, big gabe. this is one of those fights where you like both guys so much that you just want to see a good fight, and nobody getting to badly hurt. this is the hurt business, though, and sombody is going to get his clock cleaned. 3G looks like he is pretty lean already, something has to give whether that be muscle or fat and he doesn't have much fat to lose and if you get too low in the fat department, you burn out early. In any case the few pounds wouldn't have made too much of a difference but I don't think Rosado does well at 160 whether he is fighting 3G or another 160 pound fighter.

With weight classes everywhere, its a shame to ask for a catchweight, if u want to challenge somebody you fight them at there weight class wether its higher or lower, u want that guy in ur record or his title u have to fight him at the weight he is champ Just like Dawson did vs Ward he called out Ward, he wanted to fight Ward n he made the weight to 168 like a true champ

Can't wait till after the fight....

I thought at 154, Rosado would have a good shot at doing something, shoot even at 158 he may have had a decent shot. At 160, I think he is going to be outgunned by 3G and lose the fight by KO. Rosado is pretty slick but he trades shots which might not be the best thing for him to do against 3G. I admire the heart and it should be a good fight but I can't see him lasting more than 8 rounds in this fight. i don't think the 2 lbs would mean much in this case. in some cases, 2 lbs can be the difference between victory and defeat. brandon rios could never make 133 when he was fighting as a LW. he was drainiung himself down to nothing to make 135. 32 more ounces of liquid to shed would probably put him in the hospital. he'd never even make it to the fight. golovkin isn't a huge MW. he's done growing. he's said that he's comfortable even at 154. i don't think the 158 catchweight would mean much. he was 159 in his last fight, and 158.5 a couple of fights before that one. they list him at 5'11, which is total nonsense. he's about 5'9" or 5'10 max. still, though, rosado is giving up an advantage, whether it's mentally or physically, he'd get an edge from bringing golovkin down. it's a small victory. rosado is a badass for even fighting this guy. nobody wanted the fight. rosado moved up a weigh to take it. huge props to him for that. now he's back on HBO and getting five or six figures. go get that money, big gabe. this is one of those fights where you like both guys so much that you just want to see a good fight, and nobody getting to badly hurt. this is the hurt business, though, and sombody is going to get his clock cleaned.

I thought at 154, Rosado would have a good shot at doing something, shoot even at 158 he may have had a decent shot. At 160, I think he is going to be outgunned by 3G and lose the fight by KO. Rosado is pretty slick but he trades shots which might not be the best thing for him to do against 3G. I admire the heart and it should be a good fight but I can't see him lasting more than 8 rounds in this fight.

i can't wait for this fight. rosado is overmatched certainly, but he's a tough kid who has come up the hard way, and i think he's earned it. golovkin in five.

Could be GGG was proposing the CW to show promoters he was good to make LMW. Perhaps trying to subliminally tell Alvarez, Mayflower, Cotto etc....to straighten up their houses....cuz he's willing and able to come into their house and take their ****. Or....more likely, he fighting a guy who doesn't fight at world level, at this weight, hey, happy your doing well lately, but since Im gonna kytfo, I'll do it a little closer to your most productive weight, idk.

yeah, he refused a CW, good for him but this guy is huge for his division anyways. let's see him fight at smw and not demand a cw all of a sudden he think's he's the sh1t

If he wins that's good enough..... If he gets the KO NSB is gonna go crazy

i agree. either move up, move down or shut up.. ppl go "ohh but sometimes its more fair".. **** that. boxing isnt fair and neither is life. the biggest problem in boxing today is there are too many divisions and titles and the best fighters dont fight eachother. catchweights make that worse. less fighters look to clean out their own division because of it. as if all the divisions and titles arent enough to keep track of but ppl are moving around making up their own weightclasses whenever they feel like it and for what? giving up weight shouldnt be a problem in teh first place. a good fighter can neutralize his oponents size with skills, old school fighters gave up weight all the time. "if you are gonna fight a guy for his title go to his weightclass. how you gon tell a champion to meet me at 58 or meet me at 57 and his title is 160?" truer words have never been spoken.

His view after the fight will be more relevant. this :lol1: :lol1: and it's not even true what he said, there's scenarios where a catchweight would benefit both fighters equally. for instance a cw was being talked about between ward-dawson so dawson wouldn't have to drain himself an entire 7 pounds but ward shut it down and now he's accused to draining dawson which he did.

His view after the fight will be more relevant.