Why Did No One Complain When De La Hoya Forced Hopkins To A 156 Pound Catchweight?

[Eastcoast]

People forget Hopkins openly supported the catch-weight, to the extent to suggest it was his idea.

Bernard had been calling out Dela Hoya for years after he beat Trinidad, but he wanted to make the fight seem fair, especially after how poorly Dela Hoya looked vs Sturm they were afraid it would hurt the ppv sales.

[Cinci Champ]

because people pick which catch weight fights they dont like. it is also used as a pre fight excuse. but there is a difference between doing a catch weight every now and then and doing them in almost every fight thats a fact. the reality is ever since people called out pac for using catchweights in a ton of his fights it started a **** storm. now everyone talks about every catch weight as though its the end of boxing as we know it even when the catch weights make total sense. but at the end of the day its just another tool for trolls to bash and discredit certain fighters or fights. When catchweights are done in good faith i dont mind it but then again it comes back to if youre a fan of said fighter or not lol

[NEETzsche]

you signed up in 2009, how do you know that no one on nsb was complaining about the catchweight back then? did nsb even exist in '04?

[Ryn0]

So is ok for Leonard to drain lalonde?

No, lots of people complained about that fight at the time. Short Memories.

[sicko]

Not for the fans to complain because we're not the ones making the weight! If their opponents agree to and sign the contract to do it, then why the *** are the fans b1tching about it like we're the ones that have to make the weight?

B-Hop did not cry about the weight, he made it and stopped Oscar with a body shot

[imperial1]

Because Hopkins wanted the pay day ..

[Shogunofharlem1]

From what i remember of that fight no one thought hoya had a shot at beating hopkins normally. General consensus was hoya had to be on point and hopkins off his game to pull that win. Difference here is people like to play the catch weight game and than pretend said fighter doesnt need it if they win. Thats why there is more of a backlash. It also doesnt help cotto is supposedly the lineal champ at 160. Hoya vs hopkins was being advertised as david vs goliath.

[VERDUGO]

[QUOTE=hectari;15757110]Because it was the only thing the Floyd stans had to go on to discredit Pacquiao for fighting Cotto and possibly beating him, it was their built in excuse to discredit him.

Nobody cared about catchweights, until the Floyd fans started crying about it for the cotto fight.[/QUOTEx

My thoughts exactly!

The funniest thing about it was that... it was the Floyd stans trying to discredit with the catcweight and not the Cotto fans..

Chavez vs Sweet Pea was a catchweight too, btw.

[Craveman]

Or when the great sugar ray leonard drained the **** out of lalonde to a 167 pound catchweight for Lalondes belt at 175. I dont remember anybody bringing that **** up when it comes to those greats. Most of you newbys dont remember Sugar Ray draining the **** out of lalonde.

Terrible examples Cotto is following. Shame on him.

[elgu]

There's a difference between the champ willingly moving down in weight for a payday and a supposed champ at 160 only willing to defend his crown at catch weight. There's a difference between a champ draining himself and a champ draining others.

P.S Cotto is a puto, who disgraces himself and the latino race. Ask the ppl in PR that have met Cotto and they will tell you or his arrogance, inappropriate behavior, and now Diva like behavior.