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  • Roach Wants Cotto at 143

    Boxing coach Freddie Roach has told Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum that he wants a catch weight of 143 lb for the proposed Nov. 14 fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto.

    “I spoke with Bob and I told him I want it at 143 lb,” Roach told the Manila Bulletin Saturday. “The lower I can get him (Cotto), the better.”

    Roach’s desire to force Cotto to get down to as low as 143 is a sure sign the celebrated trainer is very wary of the Puerto Rican puncher, boxing experts said.

    Despite Cotto’s struggle against Joshua Clottey last week in New York, Roach said he remains a believer that Cotto is not “over the hill.”

    “Cotto is still a great fighter. Very strong, and very dangerous,” said the 48-year-old Roach.

    Roach said those who predict that Pacquiao would bowl over Cotto with ease “are not so bright.”

    “He’s a champion,” said Roach. “No way (he’s past his prime). (Manny’s going to have a) hard, hard fight.”

    Reminded that Cotto seems to be not elusive and willing to take punches to land one of his own, Roach agreed but cautioned die-hard Pacquiao fans that “he gets back as hard.”

    Roach added that once Pacquiao reports for training camp two months before the fight, help will come from conditioning coach Alex Ariza and the rest of Pacquiao’s all-Filipino training team.

    So, where’s Michael Moorer, the former heavyweight champion who was part of Pacquiao’s training camp for Ricky Hatton last May?

    “Michael’s on leave to attend to his kids in Florida,” replied Roach.

    Arum, meanwhile, has been informed of what both camps want. Pacquiao is insisting that the catch weight should be 144 lbs, but Cotto wants it at 145.

    Cotto’s World Boxing Organization welterweight (147 lb) crown will be on the line in the scheduled 12-rounder being penciled for the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

    Mike Koncz, Pacquiao’s Los Angeles-based Canadian adviser, is on his way to the US for a meeting with Arum on Sunday in Las Vegas.

    Arum will make a presentation to Koncz, who would then return to the Philippines to make a presentation of his own to Pacquiao.

    If everything goes well, Arum will likely have a deal this
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    **** you roach you piece of ****. Take your midget and your catchweight crap and shove it up your ass.

  • #2
    This idiot wants to weight drained him.

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    • #3
      Cotto shouldnt be bullied,145 or no fight.Why starve to death

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      • #4
        Even though a lot of the biased portion of the Cotto fans get on my nerves on this forum a lot of times, it's getting to the point now of where part of me wants to see Pacquiao get his block knocked off. It's clear to me that Pacquiao wants everything on the playing field tipped in his favor.

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        • #5
          No need to be that hard. I say make it at 140 or 147.
          Why not have it at both 140 and 147 and if there is a clear winner in each division? Go for the catch weight and settle it in that matter with a trilogy. How many wars Can PacMan go thru?

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          • #6
            144-145 is perfect. Roach is saying 143, Cotto 145. Pacman 144. It'll probably land smack in the middle at 144. I'm good with that.

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            • #7
              Any title at stake at a catchweight is BS. If there is going to be a title on the line in any weight it needs to be at whatever weight limit that class calls for. It's fine to do catchweights, but no titles

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              • #8
                If Cotto accepts he is a moron and deserves to get his ass kicked. I say 145 or no fight at all.

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                • #9
                  i hate fights like this because you know that it won't be a good, cimpetitive fight if cotto turns up looking anything like what he does at 147 and isn't weight drained it will end in 5 rounds. or cotto comes in weight drained and gets his ass handed to him and it ends in 5 rounds.

                  is it too much to ask for a good competitive fight?

                  btw cotto is carrying a few pounds of fat on him i think if he got rid of the baby blubber he would weigh about 144.

                  personally i think 144 would be the weight to have this fight at, i think if cotto is given 3/4 months then 143 is a fair weight as well because it would allow him to get rid of the fat.

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                  • #10
                    Cotto should just say no to Pac at whatever weight. Let's see Pac-Mosley instead. At least then nobody would be bitching about how fragile Cotto is if he has to lose 2 lbs. I like Mosley fans; they are a lot less whinier than Cotto fans.

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