Comments Thread For: Cotto Saw Golovkin's WBC Spot as Financially Motivated

[North Star]

WBC has a rule about fighting mandatories - Cotto didn't like it. No one forced Cotto to pay a step-aside fee, he could've just fought his mandatory.

Could've fought Golovkin instead of Geale, but he only wanted to pretend to be the MW champion.

Floyd had 154 mandatories for two years and not a peep from WBC about it. The orgainzation can't go on a statement of being fair and honest if they don't even uphold their own rules.

[M Bison]

I honestly stopped reading at the point of
"Its not fair on me, not fair on boxing, not fair on the fans"

I really can't think how any of you guys could defend him right now, he's such a flaming hypocrite!

Cotto basically said this -
"WBC are financially motivated"
Then he did the following BEFORE vacating the belt:

• Used the WBC belt as advertisement to the fight
• Used the WBC belt in negotiating stages with ODLH & Alvarez to get higher %
• Also used it to get first ring entrance and god knows what other stipulations I believe something to do with avoiding VADA
• He gave the fans a false allure that the winner of this could possibly fight the real MW king
• He lied to everyone!

Then after all of this THEN and only then did he decide oh Its nearly the last minute I don't want to pay that $1.1 million to WBC and Golovkin, I hereby vacate my belt.

How is it unfair on boxing that he pays what he is entitled to, why does he think he is bigger than the sanctioning bodies of boxing and the people who promote chumps like Cotto?
He made a fool of boxing as a whole and If you're a real fan of this god damn sport you would call him out on this and you wouldn't make pathetic excuse because he is earning possibly above $20 million hell he might be earning way more than that I don't know exactly but I know for sure $1.1 out of his pocket when this fight is done is pennies to this prick.

You really could go on and on analyzing this B.S. what's worse is he's trying to blame everyone but himself that's the worst part of it all.

[Eastcoast]

Floyd had 154 mandatories for two years and not a peep from WBC about it. The orgainzation can't go on a statement of being fair and honest if they don't even uphold their own rules.

Did they ever announce anyone as a mandatory at 154 or even 147 during that time? I know guys got the #1 ranking, but that's not the same as a mandatory. They routinely drop guys from #1, Jorge Heiland recently got bumped out of that spot at 160.

[OnePunch]

how do you know for sure he wont fight ggg after the canelo fight?

hahahahhahahaaa omg Javi thats the funniest damn thing I've read all week.

Thanks for the laugh. And you owe me a new keyboard.

[M Bison]

hahahahhahahaaa omg Javi thats the funniest damn thing I've read all week.

Thanks for the laugh. And you owe me a new keyboard.

Did you faint after reading what he said from the ******ity and face plant into your keyboard?

[bigjavi973]

GGGroupies continue to keep reaching hard as hell.....

WBC violated their own rules by sanctioning the interim belt in rubio vs ggg, when according to their own rules, that was not supposed to be allowed. They bended their own rules there to suite their needs.

Cotto has stated that he had informed the WBC well ahead of time that he'll pay GGG the 800K step aside fee & the sanctioning fee that he was gonna pay them. They waited until the last week to then complain about it and then strip Cotto of the WBC title..... but Cotto is at fault here. WBC did nothing wrong. Nope. BTW Canelo, who is unranked at 160, like ya are complaining about when Cotto fought martinez.... why are ya not instead making a big fuss about that currently vacant 160 WBC title for lil'g to be upgraded to full champ?

Nope ya rather type away all & at the same time

[bigjavi973]

hahahahhahahaaa omg Javi thats the funniest damn thing I've read all week.

Thanks for the laugh. And you owe me a new keyboard.

So you are not sure. Not 100% positive with facts to back it up that Cotto wouldn't fight GGG after canelo???

hmmm troll on

[NearHypnos]

Wrong wrong wrong wrong. You are correct in that it would be an option contract. You are incorrect in your comparison though. Because even though, yes cotto did agree to pay a step aside fee, Golovkin no longer needs to step aside. It's the WBC who is insisting the title be up for grabs by canelo. The WBC can just upgrade Golovkin to full champion or make him fight Canelo for the title if they see fit. So where is the performance here? And who's frustrating the purpose of the contract.

Golovkin still had to step aside. He can't be upgraded to full champion because the champion already had a legally binding contract AS the champion. Canelo can't suddenly not fight for the wbc title. Canelo does have to fight GGG if he is to win as far as I know. It doesn't change the fact that Cotto, to make this fight had to pay the step aside money. You'd only be correct if Cotto had dropped/been stripped before the fight was signed/made. Fact of the matter is that GGG stepped aside for Cotto. The wbc just allowed it. It's basically like Cotto saying "Hey bro i dont want to fight you next." ggg goes "Pay me then" and The wbc goes "If GGG is cool with it then pay the man we will allow it"

The step aside is strictly for Cotto. The wbc isnt stepping aside. Cotto losing the title now has nothing to do with what happened then. Cotto would have been stripped going into a GGG fight and NOT Canelo had there been no step aside fee paid

[M Bison]

GGGroupies continue to keep reaching hard as hell.....

WBC violated their own rules by sanctioning the interim belt in rubio vs ggg, when according to their own rules, that was not supposed to be allowed. They bended their own rules there to suite their needs.

Cotto has stated that he had informed the WBC well ahead of time that he'll pay GGG the 800K step aside fee & the sanctioning fee that he was gonna pay them. They waited until the last week to then complain about it and then strip Cotto of the WBC title..... but Cotto is at fault here. WBC did nothing wrong. Nope. BTW Canelo, who is unranked at 160, like ya are complaining about when Cotto fought martinez.... why are ya not instead making a big fuss about that currently vacant 160 WBC title for lil'g to be upgraded to full champ?

Nope ya rather type away all & at the same time

Durr Cotto care only about legitimacy

"WBC only care about money"

"Canelo give me highest percentage of cash or fight DOESN'T HAPPEN!!"

Cotto totally doesn't care about money, he earned it doe, Cotto-stans would defend Cotto no matter what you'd defend him if he went on a killing spree and joined ISIS well not all but I think in recent weeks we've learned which type of fans are the worst of the lot on this board...

Hint I'm messaging one of them right now.

[Eastcoast]

WBC violated their own rules by sanctioning the interim belt in rubio vs ggg, when according to their own rules, that was not supposed to be allowed. They bended their own rules there to suite their needs.

Do have anything to back that up or you once again making things up?