What's in a pound or two......

[2501]

Ask the Floyd fans who cried about Cotto having to come down 2 lbs to fight Manny.

[dan_cov]

yeah but they aint gonna transform him in one camp. look at memo and rios, rios still came in drain and over weight with memo because its takes more then 1 camp to accolate yourself to how a fighters body handles different things.

Hes not even been weighing in at 154 on the nose or anything, he could lose those '2lbs' by having a dump.

If he was an older fighter who had been at the weight years and was struggling to make it I'd understand.

Rios is a bad example he'd been struggling to make the weight for years and whilst he may always be in the gym he clearly cuts corners and blows up ridiculous amounts between fights. Rios in a way is like Joan Guzman you could schedule a fight at light middle and he'd still manage to come in 3lbs over.

[BennyST]

Ask the Floyd fans who cried about Cotto having to come down 2 lbs to fight Manny.

Yes, the hypocrisy of that is funny, but all of that fanboy rubbish aside, the question is 'Will it have an effect on the fight?' and the answer is an easy, clear no.

I don't think it affected Cotto that much. Maybe mentally more than anything. But, even that, Cotto was older and had struggled with weight, moving up in weight again straight after.

Canelo doesn't struggle with the weight at all. He's 22 and his average weight of his fights at 154 that he's had, twelve in all, is probably right about 152 I'm guessing. Maybe even a bit less.

Apart from the fanboy stuff, double standards, back and forth criticism, trying to one up the other, it really comes down to one thing: is two pounds going to affect Canelo at all? No.

[HeroBando]

Yes, the hypocrisy of that is funny, but all of that fanboy rubbish aside, the question is 'Will it have an effect on the fight?' and the answer is an easy, clear no.

I don't think it affected Cotto that much. Maybe mentally more than anything. But, even that, Cotto was older and had struggled with weight, moving up in weight again straight after.

Canelo doesn't struggle with the weight at all. He's 22 and his average weight of his fights at 154 that he's had, twelve in all, is probably right about 152 I'm guessing. Maybe even a bit less.

Apart from the fanboy stuff, double standards, back and forth criticism, trying to one up the other, it really comes down to one thing: is two pounds going to affect Canelo at all? No.

But his fight night weight just shot up, from 166 for Lopez to 172. So he may well be growing out of the weight. If he was 166 fight night, there'd be none of this "22lb weight gap" crap

[extracurRICular]

[Bushbaby]

If someone cannot see the hypocrisy of Floyd fighting Cotto and I quote, "at 154 where he's healthy", but somehow needing a catchweight to fight another jr middleweight slightly over a year later is dumbfounding to me.

I was going to make a tread but decided against it. Is there any other champion/pfp king/decades best, in the history of boxing that needed a catchweight to fight another fighter in a weight class he's already a 2 time champion in??

[Huxley]

Is the weigh in on the same day as the fight for this one?

[JDezi4]

Could be a little, could be a lot... Obviously, its something or he wouldn't have done it... Its not like Canelo was afraid of Floyd at 154

[The Big Dunn]

If someone cannot see the hypocrisy of Floyd fighting Cotto and I quote, "at 154 where he's healthy", but somehow needing a catchweight to fight another jr middleweight slightly over a year later is dumbfounding to me.

I was going to make a tread but decided against it. Is there any other champion/pfp king/decades best, in the history of boxing that needed a catchweight to fight another fighter in a weight class he's already a 2 time champion in??

its not dumbfounding-you are just acting like it is when its simple. floyd is the lineal ww champ who holds the wba 154 lb belt. they haven't stripped him because they assumed (unlike you) that this fight would eventually happen after canelo beat trout (another fight you said wouldn't happen) and they wanted a bigger sanctioning fee so they let him hold it for a year when they knew he would never defend it.

how many other fighters are 2 time champions in a weight class above where they are the lineal champ and currently campaign at? Floyd has fought at jmw twice,not weighing more than 150 lbs at the weigh in. He said that in the cotto fight to hype the fight and take a shot at manny.

He deserves every criticism he gets on this. but stop the fake ignorance.

[HeroBando]

If someone cannot see the hypocrisy of Floyd fighting Cotto and I quote, "at 154 where he's healthy", but somehow needing a catchweight to fight another jr middleweight slightly over a year later is dumbfounding to me.

I was going to make a tread but decided against it. Is there any other champion/pfp king/decades best, in the history of boxing that needed a catchweight to fight another fighter in a weight class he's already a 2 time champion in??

someone already made a thread, no precedent found. Money blazing the trail once again