Bigger ***** move? floyd fighting JMM at 144 or Pac fighting Cotto at 144

[QUISQUEYA]

In General Welter Weights picking on Featherweights. But when one WW refuses to fight the other, who is the bigger ***** again?

Who is the featherweight?

[strugler]

all great points..........let the boxing public decide..............

[Jim Jeffries]

Losing weight is the most difficult thing for boxers, so it has to be Paq if he fights Cotto at 144.....But it isnt up to paq, His Team have to look out for him outside of the ring and he takes care of the rest in the ring.

Difference being, Floyd would be a favorite to fight Marquez at 135, 140 or above. Pretty sure Pac would be a dog to fight Cotto at 147, especially when the conditions of the Margarito loss are taken into consideration.

[BattlingNelson]

Move down for Cotto: 3 pounds.
Move up for JMM: 9 pounds.

Nuff said.

[Burner]

mayweather vs marquez, cotto is bigger by far than pac! maybe he will be a little drained but he is too big anyway.

Just like Oscar...thanks for proving my point...

[Alibata]

Since JM is a tune up and Floyd aint fought in 2 years.....


Pac-Cotto wins it....


Cotto was a skelton at 140.....Hes been at WW for some years now...comfortably.....and now Pac wants him to be 142 pounds!!!

Thats a huge advantage for Pac.........and it shouldnt even ben sanctioned.

Cotto will get seriously hurt if he fights pAcman at 142 pounds.

They will settle for 144 which will not hurt cotto at all.

[RRICAN]

jmm vs mjr definately imo cotto vs pac at 144 is not as bad cotto should make that weight . since he started working with a nutritionist hes been doing better with the weight control

[Ravishing]

The whole weight issue is being blown way out of proportion. Pacquiao is one of the very few fighters in history who's proven he gets stronger and faster as he goes up in weight while still in his prime. The usual scenario is a fighter moving up in weight and not being able to carry over any speed or power which has been debunked by Pacquiao's last 3-4 fights. I don't see why there's is this huge outcry for Pacquiao facing Cotto being this huge mismatch and Floyd fighting Pacquiao being the greatest thing since internet ****. Both are very intriguing and big money fights, but one guy isn't a mismatch over the other by any means. Pac's proven he could technically fight at the WW limit, why not try and fight the best in that division?

Now Floyd fighting Marquez (the lightweight champion who's NEVER fought at WW) and making him come up in weight to fight what many on here presume to be a "smaller" Floyd calls for a "WTF" more than Pac facing Cotto or Floyd at this point considering both Roger and Floyd have called Marquez the "Small Guy". LOL...does anyone else besides me see beyond the clouds of misjudgment?

[QUISQUEYA]

In General Welter Weights picking on Featherweights. But when one WW refuses to fight the other, who is the bigger ***** again?

Roach believes that’s a huge misconception, “Because Manny’s getting used to the 140 pound weight. He’s punching better, he’s settling into the weight much better now. He’s knocking sparring partners out, which he doesn’t do too often. We’ve gone through about four sparring partners this time. The thing is, by fight time, Ricky’s going to be heavier than Manny - but that doesn’t make you stronger. Manny’s become a very strong 140-pounder. Everyone thinks he’s a blown-up 112-pounder and ‘22-pound but that’s not true. He’s really developed into this weight. He had trouble making 135, he felt like he was starving himself. So that’s why we went to 147. But ‘40 is the best weight for Manny, I feel.”

[The Gambler1981]

In boxing it is known that it is harder to drop weight and move down, then to come up. This was pointed out to me before the Oscar-Pacman fight, and I didn't listen. Cutting weight can always be a factor.

If you are the better man and fight the right fight a smaller man can win, although the larger man does end up with a pretty large advatange if everything is equal but size. A drained fighter even if he is the better man, is one that is usually easy to beat.