Comments Thread For: Cotto Reflects on Pacquiao Demand, Feels Geale Struggling

[elfag]

His last fight was a UD Win

2014-12-03 Jarrod Fletcher 18-2-0
Horden Pavilion, Moore Park, New South Wales, Australia W UD 12

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[Ray*]

that's cuz the wbo threatened to strip you of the title so you offered the 145 catchweight. this is different, you're supposed to be the 160 champion not the 157 "chavez jr" catchweight world champion.

also, manny wanted it at 142 which you refused and offered 145, can't complain about an offer that you made. geale never offered 157, you demanded he take it or no fight.

Blatant lie or misinformation, Cotto didnt want to put his title on the line if he was going to be made to fight at 145, he was threatened to be strip by the WBO if he didnt put his title on the line. He was basically bullied into fighting with his belt on the line at 145 instead of 147.

[KnickTillDeaTh]

Geale looks very strong and healthy.

Who's drained?

[KnickTillDeaTh]

Blatant lie or misinformation, Cotto didnt want to put his title on the line if he was going to be made to fight at 145, he was threatened to be strip by the WBO if he didnt put his title on the line. He was basically bullied into fighting with his belt on the line at 145 instead of 147.

Yeah that dude is a straight IDIOT! On top of everything you posted the WBO would have allowed Pac to fight for the vacant belt.

[truefan]

The problem is that casual fans are not cinsistent. If Cotto was a wrong for putting this catch weight for this fight then he is right about his own experience with Manny. Why is everything different and acceptable when Manny does something? It's not. Be consistent! Geale needs this fight and every challenger in boxing history goes through this. Oscar did it to Floyd. And so on and so forth.

Miguel Cotto said that Daniel Geale and his camp shouldn’t complain of having to fight at a catch-weight of 157 pounds for their middleweight fight on Saturday since he did it when he faced Manny Pacquiao and he claims he never made an issue of it.

Cotto had to agree to a catch-weight of 145-pounds for the fight with Pacquiao in 2009, which saw the Puerto Rican star get stopped in the twelfth round.

Cotto makes the first defense of his WBC middleweight world title on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. HBO will televise the contest.
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[RAV3N]

The difference is that pac was moving up in weight, cotto and pac were in separate weight classes, this is what catchweights were designed for, allowing 2 boxers from different weight classes to get into the ring (probably not so necessary with the amount of weight classes these days).

Cotto and Geale are in the same weight class, the only reason for the catchweight is so Cotto can drain Geale, there is no other reason.

Cotto fans fail to realise this, cotto is pretty much just using dirty tricks to gain an advantage.

What cotto is doing is far worse then what pac did to him.

[IMDAZED]

The difference is that pac was moving up in weight, cotto and pac were in separate weight classes, this is what catchweights were designed for, allowing 2 boxers from different weight classes to get into the ring (probably not so necessary with the amount of weight classes these days).

Cotto and Geale are in the same weight class, the only reason for the catchweight is so Cotto can drain Geale, there is no other reason.

Cotto fans fail to realise this, cotto is pretty much just using dirty tricks to gain an advantage.

What cotto is doing is far worse then what pac did to him.

Huh? Pac had fought at 147 before. Cotto has fought at 160 before. It's the same situation.

[PlasterWraps]

Manny DOES catch a lot **** for the catch weight fights, stop pretending he doesn't or didn't. People don't give Manny a pass, people shouldn't give Cotto a pass either. I like Cotto, but he's just become way too much of a diva since the Mayweather fight, especially during/after the Martinez fight.

[RAV3N]

Huh? Pac had fought at 147 before. Cotto has fought at 160 before. It's the same situation.

Pac weighed in at 142 for the De La Hoya fight, so he didnt actually weigh the full 147.

Pac wasnt campaigning at 147, he just went there to fight oscar at the time.

Cotto is the dam lineal champion at 160, there is a huge difference.

[IMDAZED]

Pac weighed in at 142 for the De La Hoya fight, so he didnt actually weigh the full 147.

Pac wasnt campaigning at 147, he just went there to fight oscar at the time.

Cotto is the dam lineal champion at 160, there is a huge difference.

You don't have to weight the full 147. Besides, Oscar did (his opponent?).

He fought at welter. Cotto didn't weigh 160 either against Martinez, so no there's no difference.