Miguel Cotto Willing To Face Pacquiao at 144-Pounds

[Bobby Shaw]

According to Michael Koncz, adviser to Manny Pacquiao, WBO welterweight champion Miguel Cotto is willing to fight Manny at a catch-weight of 144-pounds. Top Rank promotes both fighters and would love to match them at the end of year - if Cotto is able to get past Joshua Clottey on June 13 at New York's Madison Square Garden [details]

Miguels says he wont go below 145 and will not risk his health for anything.Lets not forget Miguel is an established fighter who did not take short cuts.He has some self esteem and he wont let anyone push him around.After all this is his last fight under Arum so Arum has to cash in or lose.

Manny has some serious double standards.He was willing to fight DelaHoya at 147,he always fights at 147 (fight time) anywhere so why cant he do the fight a 147.He knows Miguel would murder him if he comes in strong.

[gopi11]

It was 3mil for every pound he was over!

That was for the weigh-in, he can rehydrate to whatever he wants at fight night...

[Samadafish]

I think Rouch & PAC r full of ****. How do they wanna fight 4 a WW tittle at 142 pssss just make 140 in fact just make it 130 & fight for a HW tittle. Cotto never called out PAC there acting like cotto is dieing to fight PAC, does he need the fight? Yes is he calling out PAC no. If PAC can't fight at WW & there's no more easy advantages like the ones they like he should just retire

[gopi11]

Ill explain the bold to you.

Margarito - Got banned for being a idiot
Mosley - ***** out of the rematch because it was been held at MSG.
Berto - He wants no part of the Top WWs yet
Floyd - He is cherry picking like always, fightimng a LW at WW
Clottey - The pnly one who step to the plate and Cotto is fighting him.

If you want to fight somebody figt him at a healthy weight, period.

Getting people to unhealthy weight is a ***** move, wheter you admit it or not!!!!!!!!!!

147, same day weigh-in, an hour and a half before the fight. period...

[Samadafish]

i agree wit you.. ayways.. its official!

cotto is a puss*!

he wants pacquiao but he never wanted floyd in his whole career! DEYYYMMMMMMMMMMM!

cotto is a puss*!!!

Dude WTF r u talking about? Cotto's camp tried for a floyd fight twice, once in 140 & once in 147 floyd said no cuz cotto was no good, cuz cotto made no cash, that cotto had no fan base but then went & fought baldomir & hatton floyd is a clown & so r u for talking with out even knowing WTF ur talkinig about. Oh & cotto doesn't wanna fight PAC arum wants cotto to fight PAC cotto never called PAC out. Dude rly do some research b4 u entoxicate the world with the **** that exits ur mouth

[jetgeomcx]

Totally agree, but this won't last forever, manny will soon loose, with Cotto or Mayweather....but it pisses me off too, fighting ODLH at 147 but not fighting the rest of the WW at the same weight because there's not an advantage, then don't fight them and stay at JW...

If you are the true P4P king you don't need that advantage...

very correct !!
and the guy in your avatar is lil floyd, your hero?
the ex-p4p king will fyt marquez at 147. you read it correctly, 147 lbs!!
your lil floyd got all the advantages fyting midget marquez.
anyway,...floyd is not the true p4p king.
you are very correct indeed!!

[jetgeomcx]

Miguels says he wont go below 145 and will not risk his health for anything.Lets not forget Miguel is an established fighter who did not take short cuts.He has some self esteem and he wont let anyone push him around.After all this is his last fight under Arum so Arum has to cash in or lose.

Manny has some serious double standards.He was willing to fight DelaHoya at 147,he always fights at 147 (fight time) anywhere so why cant he do the fight a 147.He knows Miguel would murder him if he comes in strong.

u just answered your own question!!

[ELPacman]

All this fighting at whose weight is getting out of control. If they are sayin let Cotto struggle to make the weight already, then why should the fight happen? The victory is already tainted for Pacquiao and I think everyone already knows Cotto can't do 140lbs. He was struggling back in his days of 140lbs, and going back there, we all know what's going to happen. If Pacquiao beat him at 140lbs, it's like, we saw that coming already and the victory doesn't mean much. He might get some accolades for beating a strong guy, but Cotto isn't strong at 140lbs and the victory is meaningless. Just wait until July 18th to name your year end opponent. It's like buying something just because you got a dollar left in your pocket even though you don't need to.

[glidesmack]

It's not about the true PFP not needing the advantage. Cotto is way bigger. Manny just needs to say yes or you're too big. Someone needs to start seriously calling him out on this lets fight at 145 bull****. hatton and de la hoya couldn't do it because they were dying for the money from the fight. If Cotto actually has the brains to say no, he should go ahead and call manny a total ****head for suggesting a 145 weight. It screws the fans and it's a total bull**** move. Comparable to loaded gloves in my opinion. Look at the damage done to hatton.

[magbato]

Why Does Pacquiao Need a Handicap to Beat Cotto, Mosley & Mayweather?

By Manuel Perez:
Recently, Manny Pacquiao has picked up the tendency to fight opponents out of their weight class, making Oscar De La Hoya have to move down to 147 in order to fight him. This resulted in De La Hoya having to diet drastically to make weight, leaving weak and only a shell of his former self. Pacquiao then goes out and beats Oscar badly, leaving the perception with the boxing public that Pacquiao beat a prime De La Hoya and not a fighter that had to basically diet down to a weight that he hadn’t fought in years.


I don’t know about you, but I don’t see how Pacquiao can be given any kind of pound for pound attention when Manny isn’t able to meet De La Hoya at his normal weight. Roach says that he’s just looking out for his fighter by making Pacquiao’s bigger opponents have to come down to unrealistic weight requirements in order to fight Pacquiao.


Now, Roach is trying to duplicate this with fights against Miguel Cotto and Shane Mosley, letting them know that if they want to fight Pacquiao then they’ll have to strip down to a skinny, weight drained 142 to make it happen. It seems to me that his is nothing more than cherry picking at the finest.

Pacquiao walks around at 148, and if he can’t fight meet a fighter like Mosley or Cotto, both of whom fight at 147, at the welterweight limit, then they should just scrap the idea altogether and let Pacquiao continue to fight the David Diaz’s of the world. Fair is fair.

There’s no victory over an opponent that is forced to strip off muscle in order to make a fight happen, because the version of the fighter that Pacquiao ends up fighting is a weak, weight drained version and not a prime one.

If you don’t believe me, try getting in really good shape and then having to take off five pounds of muscle to take a fight. Yes, you could do it but you’d be weaker than you were before you started and you’d be in trouble against a fighter that is used to fighting at the smaller weight.

What gets me is that Roach is okay with Pacquiao fighting De La Hoya at 147, but he’s not okay with Pacquiao fighting Mosley or Cotto at the same weight. Obviously, Roach knows that he needs them both to be as weak as possible for Pacquiao to beat them.

That’s the real key, they have to be weak otherwise they’ll wipe the deck with Pacquiao and Roach probably knows this. That’s why any victories that Pacquiao would get over either one of them have to be looked at in the larger picture of what they were forced to do in order to get a fight with Pacquiao in the first place.

It’s like saying, ‘hey, if you want to fight my guy you have to be extra weight otherwise the fights’ not going to happen.’ If that’s the case, then what is it will all this pound for pound stuff? You can’t reward a fighter that makes other fighters have to be weak before they fight you, because that isn’t what the sport is all about. It’s about fairness, not handicapping your opponent so much that you beat them.

If Pacquiao needs handicaps to win his fights, then he needs to go back down and fight someone his own size. I suppose then they’d dream up some other handicap to find to leave them at a disadvantage, too.


this manuel perez is delusional...

I have to disagree with you. What Manuel has said is true. Roach is the one who cherry picks for Pacquiao. Manny have already said that he can fight at 147. If Roach really wants to help Manny then do it at the right weight and no catch weights.