Wasn't the general consensus here for Cotto to vacate his MW title?

[SeekDaGreat]

Yes. We wanted Cotto to vacate the title. NO, we did not want Cotto to vacate the title 5-days before one of the biggest fights of his life, in which the title was involved in.

His ass will be beaten for that. Trust me.

[Deevel916]

I don't know if people are pissed...its just annoying behavior.

Cotto is acting like he is taking some kind of righteous stand against the greed of sanctioning bodies, which would be cool....But he's not. He is simply ego-hurt that the WBC wouldn't negotiate a lower fee with him at the last minute, or he just wants to get rid of the whole GGG mandatory thing because he knows he will never face him...its probably a little bit of both.

It's also extra annoying that Cotto is claiming the WBC wants 1.1Million from him.. the $800,000 step aside fee goes to Golovkin, not the WBC. That was Cotto's decision to pay him to step aside.

/ of thread! You're absolutely correct!

If Cotto was planning to vacate anyway, then why try and negotiate a smaller fee? The sanctioning fee has NOTHING to do with paying GGG his step aside fee of $800k. If Cotto didn't want to pay that then he should had fought him instead.

[MRBOOMER]

He was labeled a fake MW and accused of holding the belt hostage so people were clamoring for him to just vacate the title. Now that he has, he's a duck?

For the people who call him a duck, what do you think would happen if he did fight GGG (assuming he beats Canelo)? He'd probably get slaughtered, right?

Why the hell would you want to watch GGG fight an over the hill, past his prime fighter who's MUCH smaller than he is? And why would Cotto just offer himself as a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter? The guy is at the end of his career and has been through many wars. The only possible outcome I can see for a fight against GGG is a KO loss, and he'll suffer lots of punishment in the process. You think he's gonna fight a monster like GGG just to appease some delusional keyboard warriors?

Seems like you just can't win on NSB. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. He drops his title like people demanded here, now he's a coward.

I guess the only solution to appease everyone was for him to just walk into the lion's den and take an ass whooping from a much larger man.

Then why go fight for a 160lb championship if you have no intent on defending it.

[Pac=Duran]

He was labeled a fake MW and accused of holding the belt hostage so people were clamoring for him to just vacate the title. Now that he has, he's a duck?

For the people who call him a duck, what do you think would happen if he did fight GGG (assuming he beats Canelo)? He'd probably get slaughtered, right?

Why the hell would you want to watch GGG fight an over the hill, past his prime fighter who's MUCH smaller than he is? And why would Cotto just offer himself as a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter? The guy is at the end of his career and has been through many wars. The only possible outcome I can see for a fight against GGG is a KO loss, and he'll suffer lots of punishment in the process. You think he's gonna fight a monster like GGG just to appease some delusional keyboard warriors?

Seems like you just can't win on NSB. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. He drops his title like people demanded here, now he's a coward.

I guess the only solution to appease everyone was for him to just walk into the lion's den and take an ass whooping from a much larger man.

I don't like it to be honest, he's deprived the best 160 in the world, a guy who could be an ATG if someone would just step up and fight him, a shot at glory AGAIN! Cotto didn't vacate he was derecognised so he didn't make the move himself.

Who will we have for the vacant belt? If Cotto wins will the WBC put it on the line when GGG fights Andy Lee?

[techliam]

But Cotto is recognised as the MW champion still? Whats your point?

[M Bison]

He was labeled a fake MW and accused of holding the belt hostage so people were clamoring for him to just vacate the title. Now that he has, he's a duck?

For the people who call him a duck, what do you think would happen if he did fight GGG (assuming he beats Canelo)? He'd probably get slaughtered, right?

Why the hell would you want to watch GGG fight an over the hill, past his prime fighter who's MUCH smaller than he is? And why would Cotto just offer himself as a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter? The guy is at the end of his career and has been through many wars. The only possible outcome I can see for a fight against GGG is a KO loss, and he'll suffer lots of punishment in the process. You think he's gonna fight a monster like GGG just to appease some delusional keyboard warriors?

Seems like you just can't win on NSB. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. He drops his title like people demanded here, now he's a coward.

I guess the only solution to appease everyone was for him to just walk into the lion's den and take an ass whooping from a much larger man.

He does this at the last possible second after he used the WBC Super MW title to sell the fight and as leverage to getting a solid % of the profits from this PPV.

Why do it at the last possible second, why wait until the last minute this fight with Canelo would have sold as a PPV regardless of a title involved but not only did Cotto lie to everyone he used the belt as a pathetic means of getting more $$, pure greed from this disgusting dishonest individual.

Over the hill, past his best... Oh I thought he was rejuvenated under Freddie Roach but now you're saying he's past his best?
Which one is it.

Seems more like you're happy with defending a guy who is earning 10's upon 10's of millions of dollars whilst giving him absolutely no flack for this B.S. people in day to day life do more dangerous things for less this is the hurt business and it is in no way a sport you should be ripping off the fans.

Last point Canelo and GGG are around the same size

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Not arsed. I don't know why people are getting upset about it.

If Cotto had won, he wasn't going to fight Golovkin anyway. He's probably going to retire or try to get a Mayweather fight.

[DuttyAlacrity]

He needs to vacate the lineal title as well. Announce that he's a jrmw and not a mw. Quit showing off the ring mw title like he's the champ. What he's been doing is fighting at catch weights above the jrmw limit so he can technically defend the mw title. Quit that ***** too then we're good

[M Bison]

Yeah, shame on us for wanting to see the best fight in the division.

You'd think Cotto was a war hero the way people act about him, they will defend him at any cost completely ignoring the fact about how much he earns yet they're like
"Durrr he deserved it doe"

[imperial1]

People got their wish he had no plans on fighting GGG