Ben Thompson - Team Escobedo agreed for Broner to come in at 134

[PACnPBFsuck]

I think this is bull****... Why would Broner be fined if they agreed to a catchweight? Doesn't make sense.

none at all

[TX_BOXNG]

ben thompson lol dude is big kiss ass, i like some of his interviews on his website, but all this defending broner is like a lil kid defending his dad

[PBFP4P]

Anyone who believes Ben Thompson(and his website) is credible. Are the biggest idiots walking around this Earth.

[paulf]

And actually, to address the Mayweather/Marquez comparison, if you take the time to do some research, you'll learn that Marquez and his trainer/manager, Nacho Beristain, knew full well that Mayweather wasn't going to fight him at a catchweight. I'm not even sure why that would make any sense when he was angling himself for a Pacquiao fight and a catchweight fight with Marquez would've given Pacquiao the leverage to demand Mayweather to fight him at a lower weight. What the contract stipulated was that Mayweather would TRY to come in lower than 147 and would TRY to meet him at a lower weight, and if they weren't close in weight, Marquez would be rewarded a dollar amount for every pound away from each they were. Hence the reason why NO ONE would verify what weight the fight was taking place at. Even up until the final press conference, Golden Boy Promotions was telling everyone to just tune in to the weigh-in to see what weight the fight was at...and Leonard Ellerbe insisted it was simply a "welterweight" fight. There was no big stink when Mayweather didn't "make weight" allegedly because everyone already knew what the deal was. And it wasn't Mayweather that ended up paying Marquez the extra money he got...it was his own promoter. The truth is out their my friend if you know where to find it.

That's some serious revisionist history by Ben Thompson, who is a good writer/report despite some of his obvious bias.

Team Floyd contacted Team Marquez the week of the fight and new contract was drafted, which is the one Ben Thompson is referring to. It allowed Floyd to come in at 146 without any penalties from the NSAC and broke Marquez off 600k.

I'm not going to dig up the articles right now but you can find them if you look.

[MeanestNiceGuy]

LOL! I love how people talk down on FightHype, yet they still read it and open threads about it. Why waste your time?

[MurkaMan]

LOL! I love how people talk down on FightHype, yet they still read it and open threads about it. Why waste your time?

Cuz they have great interviews, and footage...that doesnt change the fact that they arent a legitamate boxing site, due to their bias of certain fighters..Ben is a superjoke, and trust I read allot of their interviews

[mrpain81]

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[LeG00N]

LOL! I love how people talk down on FightHype, yet they still read it and open threads about it. Why waste your time?

Ben? is that you?

[IIG]

Good information from Ben.

[BuckToothed]

What IS unfair is making a welterweight champion defend his title at a weight lower than what's legally allowed, as was the case when Pacquiao fought Miguel Cotto. THAT is unfair.

So we let a challenger come in AT the contracted weight and have the champion come in a division higher? THAT'S FAIR?!?!