Comments Thread For: WBC Derecognizes Cotto; Title Only At Stake For Alvarez

[imperial1]

This is pretty unfair to be honest. Look how many years they had Floyd without defending the title and they didn't do jack.

The wbc needs to be investigated for their corruption ..

[paulf]

Stripped for being Puerto Rican

[BucaRican]

that's more than 1 mill right off the bat

I wonder if Cotto can get back his 800k? I mean really if he is no longer the champ then he is not moving over for no one. Should be a nice little court battle.

[MDPopescu]

You cannot strip Cotto of the lineal middleweight championship unless he leaves the division. The only other ways of getting it would be by defeating him or retirement. He is still the true, lineal champion of the middleweight division.

Already told here that the Ring board already ruled that they will strip the Cotto/Canelo winner if he fails to fight Golovkin next.

[j0zef]

Wow if this is true the WBC should be ashamed of themselves.

I wouldn't double pay either.

Damn they threw that non-profit **** out there to make them seem as the victims. shameful.

Uhm, nope. Cotto should. He paid off his mandatory (GGG) in order to fight a guy that Golovkin has already beaten. That had nothing to do with WBC.

Now he's refusing a 300k sanctioning fee, which is about (10m guarantee+~16% of PPV profit=~~another 5m) 0.3/15 = 2% of his purse.

I agree with WBC - this was just plain greed by Cotto's camp. He was either going to lose the belt or vacate it, so he chose not to play by the rules because it suited him.

[bigjavi973]

Repeating a lie over an over won't make it true. Lab results showed only trace, yeah they were illegal wraps, but not plaster like you and Cotto-Nation desperately claim.

They were ILLEGAL!!! That's the whole point. He tried to cheat got caught. He fights the guy that cotto beat and he's supposed to be scared or confused or whatever excuse they wanna use and that's why those inserts where found... and i'm supposed to believe he didn't try that in any of his previous fights? once a cheater always a cheater.

[texasboi15]

Cotto such a coward lol My fellow Ricans don't even what to say lol. A shame to our island.

Wtf last week you got banned for saying "you're white and that's why you support Golovkin because he's white-skinned and white power supremacy"

Now this week you're Puerto Rican..

BWaHAHahaahahahaaHAhahaahahaHAhahahahaa!!

[Luiz]

My guess is K2-GBP-HBO will make a deal like ME-RN-HBO for 2 fights then PPV.

[bigjavi973]

I wonder if Cotto can get back his 800k? I mean really if he is no longer the champ then he is not moving over for no one. Should be a nice little court battle.

He should be able to.... he hasn't paid it yet cuz of course the fight hasn't happened yet so that means the money technically isn't there yet

[MDPopescu]

Uhm, nope. Cotto should. He paid off his mandatory (GGG) in order to fight a guy that Golovkin has already beaten. That had nothing to do with WBC.

Now he's refusing a 300k sanctioning fee, which is about (10m guarantee+~16% of PPV profit=~~another 5m) 0.3/15 = 2% of his purse.

I agree with WBC - this was just plain greed by Cotto's camp. He was either going to lose the belt or vacate it, so he chose not to play by the rules because it suited him.

It's not about agreeing or not with WBC -- when one fights under their rulings they know very well what they have to do; because they already complied with those rules... Cotto simply wanted out of 160 after Canelo and that's it. I don't blame him.