Comments Thread For: DiBella: Mayweather Can Get 80-20 Split, 150 For Martinez!

[peplz]

154 would be a catchweight, bro.

154 is the junior middle weight limit. So by definition it could not be classified as a catch weight.

[GodInFleshSuit]

DiBella seems desperate! Represent your fighter a little better than that man, geez. I can understand wanting to get him in the public eye and a payday but at what price??? Very disappointing.

PS...Also he should give Cotto a little more credit than that ,damn. Talking about the guy like he's chopped liver.

[mushahadeen]

DiBella seems desperate!

If you were working out of a janitors broom closet and calling it an "office", and your biggest fighter was a complete PPV failure, you might be getting desperate too.

[tomatocantender]

154 is the junior middle weight limit. So by definition it could not be classified as a catch weight.

Extremely well said. I hate when so called "boxing fans" overuse the term of catchweight when it involves a recognized limit for a division; and in this example you hit the nail, 154 is the jmw limit so therefore is NOT a catchweight. Good reply post to that smart a$$.

[Sugar Q]

Floyd should agree for Martinez to weigh in @ 150 so when he rehydrates he doesn't go up to 174. That's only fair so I expect the agreed upon weight to be 150-154.

[Reloaded]

Not at 150, sergio would literally be sticks and bones at 150, and you gotta be at your best to beat Floyd.... If I was Floyd I would take him up on his offer, since he is so desperate, but it will be interesting to see how all of this plays out....

Yep exactly , I think they are doing a 145 ODH if they try and take Sergio down to 150 , you wont know for sure until fight night and how his body is , but here now and looking at Sergio 8 lbs heavier last night , cant see him healthy at 150 , Floyd will beat him no problems at 150 .

They push for this with those kind of figures Floyd will take it ! I got a feeling May would have been interested at 154 but now Dibella is shooting his mouth off he is only handicapping his own fighter .

[Reloaded]

Extremely well said. I hate when so called "boxing fans" overuse the term of catchweight when it involves a recognized limit for a division; and in this example you hit the nail, 154 is the jmw limit so therefore is NOT a catchweight. Good reply post to that smart a$$.

The contractual weight agreement between different weight class fighters is what defines CW .

It is a CW because its an agreed upon middle ground between fighters of a higher or lower division , a CW does not have to be an odd weight , it only has to be lower or higher than either and its the contract that has an agreed weight .

[deejd]

Riiiiight... just like the guy who said he'd take the lesser share just to make the fight happen with Mayweather.

[tomatocantender]

The contractual weight agreement between different weight class fighters is what defines CW .

It is a CW because its an agreed upon middle ground between fighters of a higher or lower division , a CW does not have to be an odd weight , it only has to be lower or higher than either and its the contract that has an agreed weight .

Wrong, wrong and even more wrong. Floyd is fighting Cotto at 154. Floyd fought at 154 against Oscar years ago. Sergio fought at 154 not but 3 or 4 fights ago when he blasted Williams off the set. Sergio had his 154 belt stripped by a 10 day mandate to either keep the 154 green belt or keep his newly acquired 160 green belt after beating Pavlik, BUT was told he couldn't keep both. And 154 has a name, it's called JUNIOR MIDDLE WEIGHT/SUPER WELTER. So you can throw up all this other window dressing and smoke-n-mirrors about contracts and agreed weights; e.g. Catchweights, but you are putting lipstick on a pig if you try to convince anyone that 154 is a catchweight for Floyd & Sergio. Now if this was at 157, yeah call it a ****** catchweight; 151 same thing. But at 154, no sir, not a catchweight! No matter how much b.s. you try and spin about contracts, terms, a scale moving up or down, etc...I repeat, 154 is not a damn catchweight. Good try though.

[Atreyu Khalil]

Lou DiBella, promoter of middleweight king Sergio Martinez (49-2-2, 28KOs), is willing to go above and beyond to secure a fight with five division world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (42-0, 26KOs). DiBella is confident that Mayweather will defeat WBA 154-pound champion Miguel Cotto on May 5th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. DiBella told BoxingScene.com that Martinez is willing to accept a financial split of 80-20 for a Mayweather fight, and Martinez would drop down to a catch-weight of 150-pounds.

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