Roach's Weight Demand Could Collapse Pacquiao vs. Cotto

[Bhopreign]

I was fast becoming a Pac fanatic until he pulled this.

[Titing Kabayo]

I don't care whatever weight they fight but 147 is highly preferrable where legacy is on the line... I am losing respect on Roach...

[parrish duke]

Cotto better stick to his guns!!! if he cannot make weight, his nutrition guy said he could not get down that low. First off that is how you get hurt, when there is no more fat to burn, you start burning muscle. That is when you cannot train properly because you cannot put the sufficient nutrients in your body after the work out. All you can do is drink water and eat ice!! Then get in the ring and get your ass kicked - not cool roach, if it is for cotto's title, then i honestly think cotto should have some leverage, Sugar shane said he would accomodate (what is roach scared of)? fighting for a welterweight title means fighting at 147 - when the white mexican(kelly pavlik) gave Jermaine (no discipline taylor) his rematch it was at 164 or 166, and it was not for his titles, by the way what ever happened to that guy pavlik????? dissing JT's title defenses and who the hell has he defended against (another story another thread)?? but i think cotto should pursue mayweather, berto, sugar shane, etc, etc - keep the side show's for someone else - sure i will fight you, but the split will be 70 / 30, you have to come down to 143, you cannot have a beard, your family will only get 4 comp tix to the fight, you cannot stay at the same hotel, etc...BS / BS / BS / BS 360 till the world blows up...

[WhoreUs]

I hear you bud but walk around weights and fight weights are completely different. Most fighters don't come in at their walk around weight no matter how much you train. You want to be above your fight weight until the last couple of weeks if not the same week of the fight because you will be virtually stronger than if you stay at the same wieght all year round. There are a few gym **** like Hopkins, Roy Jones Jr., Floyd who pretty much stay at fight weight all year round but those are the natural phenoms that do that.

i know.

maybe i'm wrong but i don't think cotto would have a problem with making 143.

he can still be 157 or higher in the ring.

i could be wrong though.

let roach ask for as low as he can get. have cotto ask for as high as he can get and just find a middle ground.

roach says 143. cotto says 145. make it 144.

done.

it's a good fight. benificial to both.

my guess is it'll be 144 and we all argued over nothing.

just like everyone was arguing about the purse split for hatton-pac.

in the end they found a way to get the fight done.

[No Ceiling]

trainers always try to look out for their fighters.

your fighter is a slick mover = ask for the biggest ring possible

your fighter is an inside fighter = ask for the smallest ring possible

your fighter is the defensive type = ask for grant gloves

your fighter is the harder puncher = ask for cleto-reyes gloves

your fighter is bigger = ask for a fight at a higher weight

your fighter is smaller = ask for a fight at a lower weight

and so on..........

it's been that way since the beginning of boxing.

if the fighter is uncut...

[WhoreUs]

if the fighter is uncut...

what the hell does that mean?

[WhoreUs]

I was fast becoming a Pac fanatic until he pulled this.

no one cares what you think.

go watch your tape of robert allen vs. bernard hopkins 6.

[No Ceiling]

what the hell does that mean?

uncut means supot in philippino literature

[Dave Rado]

cotto's natural weight is 140lbs.

He hasn't weighed in at less than 146 for three years and he moved up because he was having difficulty making weight.

Going down 5 pounds is no big deal for him!

He believes otherwise; and considering how difficult so many fighters find it to make weight, (Campbell, Guzman, Castillo, Corrales) the idea that moving down 5lb would be easy strikes me as ridiculous.

Don't you think that Pac has a chance at 147? Because if you do, and given that he'd get far more credit for a win at that weight, why would you not want him to make the fight at 147?

[swizz]

alot of you pac fans arent real boxing fans just front runners i dsaid that cus u ask for a fight at 147 or 140, u should even post in a boxing website i know im new here but atleasr i know the sport and i think you guys are ****** if u think cotto should fight at 140 he was already wbo jr ww champ...he belongs at 147 for u guys that say pac is the man take or leave who ha pac beat? an old n drain dlh or hatton who is over rated jmm is all pac has.... than u say cotto is a ***** for fighting a jr ww but wat was pac wen he was draining himself to fight at 130 n gettin knock the f*** out