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

[elfag]

I respect Cotto's position on this. People are paying to watch the fighters not Sulaiman's shiny belt green belt.

I don't see why the WBC should get $1.1 million of the available revenue.

300k. 800k goes to GGG

[Joe Beamish]

It doesn't matter much at this point anyway. He's getting TKO'd on Saturday night regardless.

This is correct. And it will be pleasant to watch.

[icha]

Well I'm very sure with a settlement being set that doing it in the very last minute could definitely see legal action being took against Cotto.
You can't really even call Cotto a man the best thing that can happen is that this weekend Canelo knocks him unconscious and puts him into hospital that would be karma at its best.

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...

[ricodonjefe]

Smh who's a coward only an idiot would pay 1.1 million let Oscar and canelo pay that sh!!!!t....

[ex-pacfan]

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.

[-PBP-]

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...

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.

[Tom Cruise]

Smh who's a coward only an idiot would pay 1.1 million let Oscar and canelo pay that sh!!!!t....

Oscar and Canelo are paying the WBC their sanctioning fee. The other 800 thousand was specifically for Cotto to pay his mandatory, GGG, as a step aside.

[icha]

WBC is a joke.

If Cotto didnt pay his step aside fee to GGG, the mandatory, then GGG should get the belt outright, its just the same as him refusing to fight GGG.

How is the belt at stake for Canelo? Hes not the mandatory..... I'll tell you why, its because hes paying a fee to the WBC, so they will gladly take his money, offer the belt up for him, if he wins, great, because he brings in more money than GGG.

The whole thing is BS.

im a big canelo fan, but i completely agree with you...

[Tom Cruise]

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.

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

[bigdunny1]

Then why did Cotto have no problem fighting Geale if he is only interested in big names, big PPV's and money?

Because GGG is too big of a risk of a KO loss. point blank. Cotto should have dropped the belt because he had no intentions of ever fighting him.

Exactly. Stop the excuses it's not about GGG not being a big enough name GGG right now is bigger name then geale and even Martinez. Yet he fought those guys because Martinez let him fight a gimpy fighter to win a phony belt(he ducked Martinez for years when he was healthy and only agreed when he had knee problems and damaged goods) and geale was a non threat. It's been about him being afraid of GGG from day one and now it's to the point where he knows he won't fight him next or ever so why pay the fee. Coward move and proves what everyone been saying about him for a year now. That he's not a real middleweight and that he is ducking GGG. If he just manned up and vacated a long time ago he avoids all this embarrassment. Instead he kept the belt hostage until he got stripped.