Catchweight Biases Against Pacquiao

[Deevel916]

Its funny how everyone mentions Manny's opponents disadvantages, yet nobody mentions the disadvantages that Pac had on fight night against guys like Cotto, Clottey, and Marg who signifigantly outweighed him when it came time to trade punches.

[El Angel]

Since when is 154 a catchweight? That's junior middleweight divisional limit, not a catchweight.

[Beater_of_ass]

Its funny how everyone mentions Manny's opponents disadvantages, yet nobody mentions the disadvantages that Pac had on fight night against guys like Cotto, Clottey, and Marg who signifigantly outweighed him when it came time to trade punches.

Um... because all the guys bigger than Manny lost their advantage by coming down in weight. These guys aren't fat ****s when they have to lose 1 pound its ALL muscle that takes your pwoer. Same thing with 2 pounds, 3 pounds etc. This weight drastically affects how much you can gain back as well, it isn't like Manny moved up to fight Cotto and Marg and they said, oh you have to lower your top speed by 15%. WTF kind of logic are you even using?

[CHOWWOKKA]

Well technically there's no such thing as a 154lb title. 154 is only the limit you can weight in that respected division which can be in between 148 - 154. People tend to forget that on fight night Marg weighed 163lbs. Pac fought a full fledge MW in that ring.

What difference does it make what hey weigh in the ring? Marg gained 13 lbs overnight of water and protein shakes not muscle. He didn't hit as hard as a middle weight.

[LeG00N]

Well canelo had like 4 or 5 catchweight fights in a row already..one of them being his world title fight. Gbp even offered to have chavez jr vs canelo at a catchweight too. Pacquiao has really only fought 3 catchweight fights in his entire 50+ fight pro career..

No


Cotto
ODLH
Margarito
Marquez

[F l i c k e r]

I do not understand why if it's Pacquiao demanding catchweights people seem to ridicule him but clearly he's not the only one doing it.

Floyd's asking Martinez to drop to 150.
Cotto Asking Martinez to drop to 154.
Martinez asking Ward to drop to 164.

Why oh why?

Cotto-Martinez wouldn't be a catchweight.

Floyd is an idiot if he seriously wants that.

Martinez is a bitch.


Pacquiao is the only person fighting for titles at catch weights knowing that these guys in the catch weights have problems making lower weights.

No bias. All truths. Stop being a bitch and fight a even playing field.

[johncods]

No


Cotto
ODLH
Margarito
Marquez

Not a catchweight.

[LeG00N]

Not a catchweight.

nvm you're right...Oscar just came underweight limit

[jrosales13]

I wish their were same day weigh-ins. And, it would eliminate a lot of catch-weight fights.

I don't see a problem with catch-weights if both fighters can still fight up to their abilities.

But, if Pac doesn't want people to bitch about his catch-weight fights. Then how about maybe just not have any catch-weight fights.

Really it's not that difficult to fight at the weight-class limit.

[Beater_of_ass]

Not a catchweight.

It was a catchweight as it was a weight they agreed to but Manny had to move up 2 weight divions, you can't even count this against Manny. He moved up 2 divisions and everyone had him losing that fight just because of the size, it was big step up for Manny period.