Catchweight Biases Against Pacquiao

[tomatocantender]

Oscar/Pac was Manny moving up two weight divisions, I give no crap for this fight.

Pac/Cotto was Manny's first catchweight so I had no problems with it. BUT Manny try to *** Cotto down to 142 initially and it was for a title so it cheapens the win to me.

Pac/Marg at 150 **** Margarito its that simple, don't load your wraps and people can't take advantage of you its that simple. BUT it was for a title so again cheapens the win.

Pac/Marquez it was at 144 where Floyd was supposed to fight him, so again I could care less. BUT it was for a title so... you get the idea.

Most of them don't seem so bad, but jesus Manny that's a lot of catchweight fights and he's asking for another one!? This time making Cotto lose 7 pounds and he already beat the guy? The reason he gets **** is because with that many fights its now a trend, doing it a couple of times to make fights happen fine. But using them to get an advantage, that's straight up b*tch **** period. The divisions are there for a reason, it's not where Manny wants to fight just like Mayweather, Manny IS NOT bigger than the sport. Maybe he isn't trying to drain people but it looks that way, and it's not like Cotto is the one asking for the fight. Manny said I want Cotto but... only at 147, as if Cotto is in the same position as the last time? He's not with TR anymore, he actually has some options as he's showing, he'll just fight Floyd at 154. Even if Cotto loses Floyd's win >>> than Manny's just because it wasn't a CW for a title fight, that wasn't there to cheapen the win.

Except for you using "***" as a verb, I agree with this analysis. Good post.

[915angel]

mayweather dont need pacman


jus fight cotto,,, martinez (either or 150 or 154),,, then cash out with a fight against the young green canelo,,,

[915angel]

so he can fight maragarito at 150 for the 154 belt,,,, but he cant gain a simple 4 pounds and fight the canelos,, of the division :/

[cixthree]

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?

It's these types of posts that make me understand how all this mess got twisted,
people either can't read or they're comprehension is low.
Floyd never asked Serg to drop to 50, he was asked of he'd be willing to face Serg at 50 cause Serg offered 50 to Manny.
So in response Floyd says (sure if Serg can make 50 we can fight)

[915angel]

people ducked my thread too,,,,

why can sergio go down 2 divisions and fight manny/mayweather but not go up and fight Andre Ward,,,,,,,


mayweather dont do catchweights (atleast hes goin up to 154 to fight cotto) as opposed to the 144 he had to make for the manny fight,,,,

[littlemac]

Catchweights are actually not bad if used to even out a fair playing field, but in Manny's case its obvious him and his team have been using them for the purpose of gaining advantage and that's were the hate against Manny comes from.

I mean seriously can anyone really justified Manny's position in wanting Cotto at 147?!!Everyone but the *******s, can see Manny's team is using another catchweight to drain a fighter.

[915angel]

see know if he fought them at the ORIGINAL weight classes,, id have him #1p4p based on hes been more active then floyd (id have floyd #2)

but pacman does it to him self,,,