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By Cliff Rold - Miguel Cotto is one of the best, most tested, and toughest matched fighters of his generation. Miguel Cotto is not a modern Middleweight.
That’s why it’s so unfortunate that he’s the current Middleweight Champion of the World, at least in terms of history and the WBC belt.
With much adieu in social media, and with the clock ticking to the weigh-in Friday, it remains to be seen if Cotto’s challenger this weekend can make the contracted weight for the fight. Oh, we know Daniel Geale can make the Middleweight limit of 160 lbs.
The former unified Middleweight beltholder has been making 160 most of his career.
The contracted weight for this fight, as requested by the Middleweight champion, is three pounds under that limit. Whether that affects the outcome of the fight might be tough to assess. Geale could always win and make it a non-issue. The fighter who went to Germany to defeat Sebastian Sylvester and Felix Sturm for titles is certainly capable.
That it could affect the outcome, and is a story in the days before the fight, gets back to the original point.
Miguel Cotto is not a modern Middleweight.
He’s not that interested in fighting them either.
Headlines and speculation about whether Geale can get that low on the scale will be answered soon. This is hardly the first catchweight bout in boxing. They happen more often than most realize and aren’t, on face, that big a deal.
How they’re being used in recent years is raising some ire. We live in an era when the practice has become so pervasive as to be used in a unification fight between reigning titlists in the same class (Floyd Mayweather-Saul Alvarez, 2013). That wasn’t a first. We saw the same thing in Bernard Hopkins-Oscar De La Hoya in 2004. [Click Here To Read More]
That’s why it’s so unfortunate that he’s the current Middleweight Champion of the World, at least in terms of history and the WBC belt.
With much adieu in social media, and with the clock ticking to the weigh-in Friday, it remains to be seen if Cotto’s challenger this weekend can make the contracted weight for the fight. Oh, we know Daniel Geale can make the Middleweight limit of 160 lbs.
The former unified Middleweight beltholder has been making 160 most of his career.
The contracted weight for this fight, as requested by the Middleweight champion, is three pounds under that limit. Whether that affects the outcome of the fight might be tough to assess. Geale could always win and make it a non-issue. The fighter who went to Germany to defeat Sebastian Sylvester and Felix Sturm for titles is certainly capable.
That it could affect the outcome, and is a story in the days before the fight, gets back to the original point.
Miguel Cotto is not a modern Middleweight.
He’s not that interested in fighting them either.
Headlines and speculation about whether Geale can get that low on the scale will be answered soon. This is hardly the first catchweight bout in boxing. They happen more often than most realize and aren’t, on face, that big a deal.
How they’re being used in recent years is raising some ire. We live in an era when the practice has become so pervasive as to be used in a unification fight between reigning titlists in the same class (Floyd Mayweather-Saul Alvarez, 2013). That wasn’t a first. We saw the same thing in Bernard Hopkins-Oscar De La Hoya in 2004. [Click Here To Read More]
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