Catch Weight Title fights

[Scott9945]

I've always felt that if you want to call yourself the middleweight champion you should be willing to fight opponents who can make 160. That applies to every division. But that's just me.

[El_Feroz82]

Some good points, like someone else said the system is just too open for abuse. I wouldn't have a problem with a non-title CW fight between say a MW and a LHW just to make a big fight, that's not so bad. That's just meeting in the middle between to different sized guys. But draining guys in your own division should not be tolerated and makes you look like a pu$$

There is just too much the A-side can demand and it will never change, ***** it's only going to get worse actually. It just cheapens the sport and the legacies of the fighters involved.

Lets take the recent example of the Maidana glove debacle...I'm not trying to single out Floyd because Manny and other aren't innocent either. Hypotheticaly you are having a boxing party and get some of your friends to come over who aren't that into boxing. The damn fight all of a sudden might not happen because of comission approved gloves that Floyd doesn't like. A friend asks why would this happen if the gloves are legit??? I guess I respond that they are punchers gloves and Maidana is a puncher, so.....they say that's ****** the Yankees don't tell other teams what bats to use.....I just shake my head.

This A-side stuff is out of control and getting worse.

[Xi_]

All these comments are just so misinformed it's ridiculous. The great Armstrong fought in cw fights, probably the most famous multiweight fighter ever.

I see no harm in a smaller fighter moving up in weight and having a cw challenging a bigger champ, eg pac v cotto or srl v lalonde but there's a difference when a guy who is already a champion in a division fighting another champion in that division for a cw.

You cum catching pacf@g.......didn't pacquiao fight dlh at the full 147 mark before his cw fight with cotto?

[El_Feroz82]

You cum catching pacf@g.......didn't pacquiao fight dlh at the full 147 mark before his cw fight with cotto?

I think it's pretty clear Pac and Floyd are both guilty