Comments Thread For: Cotto Jabs The WBC, Tells De La Hoya To Pay $1.1 Million

[Guest]

It almost seems like a set up for both Cotto and Canelo to bow out gracefully from being WBC Middleweight champ.

It's almost like they srcipted this **** themselves.

We all know how the king of the middleweights is.

[icha]

We don't know the exact answer to that. But Cotto, Canelo, Roc and GBP are all making a shedfull of money out of this fight, and it wouldn't be happening if GGG hadn't agreed to step aside. He kept his side of the bargain, whoever promised to pay him will have to keep theirs.

This is a separate issue from whether the winner fights GGG or not. Cotto has been stripped for refusing to pay the WBC's sanctioning fee, not for refusing to fight Golovkin if he wins.

make no mistake, this fight is happening with or without a title and believe me, GGG has nothing to do with the ratings or the money generated on this fight...

[Czarczar]

Cotto wanted the belt at stake

I remember Canelo saying that Cotto wanted them to fight for the belt.

[icha]

Like I said, think about it for a second. If there was a contract they would NOT HAVE SAID ANYTHING. They would have fulfilled their end (sanctioning the fight and their champ) then they could sue Cotto for breaching his part of the contract...But...there is no contract.

i think you are right...

[kafkod]

i dont even know if cotto signed on anything, he agreed to pay GGG $800, and he also agreed to pay the wbc $150, but seems like wbc wanted more than that and then cotto didnt paid a dime to either, if there is a contract then maybe GGG can get some, but then again wbc voids everything by not allowing cotto to defend the title... if there is a contract then is complicated, if not, then cotto walks away home richer...

Like I said, think about it for a second. If there was a contract they would NOT HAVE SAID ANYTHING. They would have fulfilled their end (sanctioning the fight and their champ) then they could sue Cotto for breaching his part of the contract...But...there is no contract.

It's usually the promoters of the champion and challenger who pay the step aside money in situations like this, not the sanctioning organisation.

It was the higher than expected sanctioning fee that Cotto was complaining about, not the step aside money.

It's inconcievable that a fight like this could take place without any contracts being signed!

[icha]

Why should GGG get anything? He's not stepping aside anymore. Canelo is fighting for what is essentially a vacant title and will have a mandatory immediately after. Unless GBP paid him.

i dont think GGG is going to get anything if he hasnt been paid yet...

[champion4ever]

Cotto knew what the sanction fee was going to be all along. This is all smoke and mirrors . He never had any real intentions of challenging GGG in the first place. From the looks of me he is already resigned to losing to Canelo on Saturday.

[icha]

GGG should have been paid months ago. He stepped aside to let the event take place.

a bit of a correction, he step aside to allow the belt at stake, the event was going to take place with or without GGGs aproval..

[bigdunny1]

The belt should never of been on the line and it never needed to be if cotto just been a man and said I'm not fighting GGG so I vacate. Instead he let this circus go on for over a year pretending like he was going to defend the title. Kept the belt hostage made himself look like a b1tch so I got no sympathy for him. Canelo on record saying he don't care about the belt and wanted to fight him regardless.

[JmH Reborn]

War Cotto - f%%k these crooks...tired of having four orgs naming champs in each division. Tired of each org having multiple champs in a division. Soon, we'll have 16 champs per division, not too mention trophy titles like "diamond" crap.

In 2015 - it means more to be a UFC champion than it does to be a boxing champ; ask Holly Holm. Its a sad state of affairs. This "unified" champion has gone awry.

I truly truly truly hope PBC is successful - not because of Haymon, because in theory, they'll soon create their own title - rendering all the 4 horsemen orgs trying to be relevant amongst a small group of fighters not in PBC, thus eventually causing them to fade away.