Team Pacquiao Made a Weighty Mistake With Cotto

[Mr. Philadel]

wow......the writer called Cotto 1D ......the Ricans gonna tear this thread down before the day is done

[..WaRSpencE..]

"Cotto is one-dimensional"...LMFAO!

Now that was the quote of the article!!..

[DonTaseMeBrah]

this is the same douche bag writer who claimed pacquiao was ducking slick black american fighters but the whole article was about pacquiao ducking joan guzman a slick but not black american fighter.

after that debacle of an article i cant believe they let this guy post articles.

even worse, this guy votes for the IBHOF.

no wonder there's so many undeservings in the HOF.

[rao007]

Personally, I reserve judgment--I will have to see how well Pacquiao deals with BIG, fast, welterweight sparring partners and see what Roach has to say. I dont' see Pacquiao stoppping Cotto other than TKO via cuts. Pacquiao will have to dish out a perfect plan in order to get a UD--he has to be the smooth operator who consistently throws (unlike Zab Judah) while maintaining his aggressivness--he cannot be pushed into a brawl.

[Drunken Cat]

I disagree with the premise of this article, particularly that Team Pacquiao was erroneous in that they did not demand the fight take place at 143.

In spite of the suggestion by our UCLA graduate that most boxing fans have not had to make weight, I myself have done so for both wrestling and boxing competitions, and I've always been a believer that skill-level plays first fiddle, with size taking a secondary role. Has our writer ever had to make weight? I wonder.

In addition, this writer evokes the potentially late stage of Pacquiao's career as evidence to support his case. If anything, Pacquiao is doing a disfavor to his legacy by not fighting at 147, and not fighting for Cotto's welterweight title.

[Greatwhitehope]

Here's a crazy thought, perhaps Pac and his team think that he is a better fighter than Cotto and can beat him by fighting a good fight rather than ****ing around with this **** and beating a weight drained Cotto that would prove nothing.

I stopped reading the article halfway through, real cop out story IMO.


Also props to the poster before me, he's said exactly what I was getting at but I didn't read his post.

[Drunken Cat]

Here's a crazy thought, perhaps Pac and his team think that he is a better fighter than Cotto and can beat him by fighting a good fight rather than ****ing around with this **** and beating a weight drained Cotto that would prove nothing.

I stopped reading the article halfway through, real cop out story IMO.

Don't feel bad, I did the same. However I felt it was proper to go back and finish reading before commenting.

[edgarg]

I like this article, one of the better ones. Everything in it is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

The most blatant, obvious, destructive example of weight-drain in my opinion was the lead=up to the Corrales-Mayweather fight, where Corrales was broke, heading for jail, and needed money to pay his legal; bills.

Therefore he agreed to meet Mayweather ay 130 lbs, a weight he had left 6 months before. He talked about those "last couple of pounds" and said it was hard. He took the fight because, as he put it, "they made me an offer I couldn't refuse...... " The Mayweathers got all the advantages to make certain of winning, and poor Corrales turned up at the weigh-in looking, as T.K. Stewart wrote "grey and drawn down ........looking as if he was near death......" He just got money, and his first loss in a fight he was fancied to win.

He was KD 5 times in 10 rounds, and not one time did he go down from a heavy punch. He sank to the canvas in stages, folding up like a deck chair. He was as weak as a new-born kitten.

Very much the way that Breny Matteo is describing the Manny-Cotto fight.

[MatteoAlderson]

Yes I have had to make weight on a number of occassions. I grew up wrestling freestyle and wrestled in high school.

[joe90210]

Cotto will murder pacman, I can't believe the majority believe otherwise.