Cotto Refuses To Fight Pacquiao Below 145-Pounds

[K U Y I P]

and your officially an idiot

the pacquiao fight is very tempting for cotto no doubt. with the big payday and a chance to fight the best boxer in the world, cotto doesn't need to think twice in accepting this fyt. but if he don't want to fyt pac at a catchweight, he could have said NO and stfu!!!

[FRESHMC2]

good for Cotto! theres no reason to kill himself going down to 142! if pacman really wants him, fight at 145 or 147. pacman isnt gonna fight him soon anyway, hes gonna fight Marquez or mayweather...

[Albert Maximo]

Good Desicion

Cotto cant not get down to that weight because the body over time asks for more not less. If Pacquiao is so special and the best pound for pound?Why does not rise to the 147? As I said earlier that Roach doest not want to fight with Cotto at 147, with De la Hoya if, but never with the Puerto Rican. The reason is simple. If you are able to dehydrate Cotto for the day of weighing the body of Cotto is going to suffer and to fight (being 30 hours later) will not be able to recover. But at 147 to Cotto will not affect and can enter the fight with 156-157 lbs. Pacquiao is not a thing that suits him. Look at the fights against Pac rates of 126-130 weight good. Marquez as I won it in those weights like Morales. Cotto is too much for that Pac in welter and hes corner now.

[Dave Rado]

Ok, first of all do you have a link where Pac called out a fighter? No. You know why? Because he NEVER does. Every single time he's asked who do you want to face, he says "it's up to his promoter" and that he's just "a fighter doing his job".

Find that link yet?

To add, asking a fighter to fight a hell of a lot higher than their natural weight is dangerous. If you don't want to level the playing field, then don't call out fighters smaller than you.

I should have said Pac's advisers shouldn't be calling out people at weights he doesn't want to fight at. And he does have a mind of his own - look at the way he stalled the negotiations with Hatton and De La Hoya. If he doesn't want to fight Cotto he should tell his advisers to stop calling for a Cotto fight. If he does want to fight Cotto, it should be at 147.

And Cotto has never called out Pac - first Arum and then Pac's adviser Salud said they wanted Pac to fight Cotto next.

[Dave Rado]

If Pacquiao is so special and the best pound for pound?Why does not rise to the 147?

His highest peak weight is 140. He started a Light Flyweight and won his first world title at Flyweight. Why should he fight above Jnr Welteweight? Are you going to say next that just because he's a pound for pound fighter he should fight Vitali at 250lb? Every fighter has a maximum weight above which they can't fight as effectively, and in Pac's case, Roach believes that weight is 140lb.

In the De La Hoya fight, the weight was effectively a catchweight between Pac's natural weight and DLH's natural weight, because DLH was moving down, so that fight is a red herring and you know it.

But he shouldn't be making fights with Welterweights if he doesn't want to fight at Welterweight, he should fight Marquez or Bradley.

[mrmorningside]

pacqiao knows better than to fight cotto at 145 or 147. he would have a better chance of beating him at 142. cotto's body couldn't handle that weight anymore.

[jose1418]

152-153 tops.

It's doen't matter how many pounds he will gain, it's the process to make the 140 or 142 that will be a factor.IMO

[K U Y I P]

I should have said Pac's advisers shouldn't be calling out people at weights he doesn't want to fight at. And he does have a mind of his own - look at the way he stalled the negotiations with Hatton and De La Hoya. If he doesn't want to fight Cotto he should tell his advisers to stop calling for a Cotto fight. If he does want to fight Cotto, it should be at 147.

i guess your misinformed.its not pac nor his advisers who called out cooto's name. its the great promotor bob arum who first said this nonsense matchup.

[Dave Rado]

the pacquiao fight is very tempting for cotto no doubt. with the big payday and a chance to fight the best boxer in the world, cotto doesn't need to think twice in accepting this fyt. but if he don't want to fyt pac at a catchweight, he could have said NO and stfu!!!

In effect he has said exactly that, except he's said he's willing to come down 2lb but no more than that. I think it would be better if he said no to catchweight altogether, we have enough divisions as it is. But if he thinks he can manage 2lb but no more than that without being weight drained, and if he stands by that, I don't see how you can criticise him too much.

[Dave Rado]

i guess your misinformed.its not pac nor his advisers who called out cooto's name. its the great promotor bob arum who first said this nonsense matchup.

No, it was Salud also.