Cotto Should Pay His Dues..

[francisco0315]

The agreement that Cotto made with Golovkin and G2 is contingent upon the fact that Cotto would be defending the WBC 160-pound belt against Alvarez. Since he is not going to defend the belt after being stripped, he does not owe Golovkin anything.

The sanctioning fee is ridiculous, whether it is $300,000 or $125,000. What the WBC is doing is the equivalent of extortion. No one should pay $300,000 for the right to a title designation that can be taken away at any time after the fight and after the fee has been paid by the designating body.

Point here is that Cotto used the belt to negotiate a better payment and agreed to pay a step aside fee to GGG, the step aside fee is not related to the WBC sanctioning fee.

Now Cotto says that he is no champion so he does not has to pay the step aside fee?

That was a coward move on his part, he is behaving like cotto, its a shame that he always talk about legacy and he always be remembered as a coward and a cheater.

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cotto is like mayweather he always pulls some **** right before the fight

sans the talent or the **** he pulls actually being advantageous

a third rate floyd parody perhaps

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Point here is that Cotto used the belt to negotiate a better payment and agreed to pay a step aside fee to GGG, the step aside fee is not related to the WBC sanctioning fee.

Now Cotto says that he is no champion so he does not has to pay the step aside fee?

That was a coward move on his part, he is behaving like cotto, its a shame that he always talk about legacy and he always be remembered as a coward and a cheater.

the sanctioning fee and step aside fee are indirectly related (without the belt, nobody could force cotto to fight ggg)

the reason it's a cowardly and maybe borderline illegal move is because he signed a contract to be paid to fight canelo for the WBC title and clearly planned from day 1 to drop the title before the fight.

i wouldn't be surprised if golovkin/wbc/networks/anyone else cotto ripped off take it to court.

The strategy Cotto's team will use is ignoring all other parties completely and demonizing the WBC since nobody likes them. But he ripped off EVERYONE.

[Chrismart]

I'm a fan of both Cotto and Golovkin. But if Cotto has signed a contract to pay a step aside payment to Golovkin, he should pay it. I think it's a bit of a shithouse move if he doesn't.
If a contract was wrote up and signed, i'm sure Golvokin's team had the foresight to iron out the possibility of this current situation beforehand.

[OnePunch]

He avoided him but he was also magically put in that position to begin with by the WBC. As far as being 1 contender. It's their fault. Even if it's not, **** the WBC anyway. Sanctioning bodies make up situations and then the Boxers have to pay for it.

Actually, Cotto is the one who created this mess when he did not want to do the mando with Rubio. The WBC made a deal with Rubio-GGG, and Cotto was free to try and negotiate the Canelo fight, which blew up that time when Canelo had enough and walked away.

Had Cotto just done the mando with Rubio, and THEN did the Canelo thing, none of this would have happened, because there would no longer be an interim champion.

[M Bison]

i actually dont blame him people need get off ggg nuts and realize hes right. **** all these selfish money hungry politically driven belt organizations i dont blame him one bit not even a little

They're entitled to what they get, on one case its good to see the WBC take the belt off him as he shamed it and the former champions of that belt when he acted like he did.

On case you're saying the WBC are greedy but you completely ignore the fact that Cotto is the exact same thing, why do you care If he gets 1.1million off of his already huge wage package of about 20million, absolutely ludicrous a bunch of fans acting like its a casual day we're only talking about millions something most of us would be very lucky to see or accumulate as much.

[icha]

I don't see any reason for him to, since he isn't defending the title. The moment he was stripped, Golovkin should've been elevated to full champion. He needs to take it up with the WBC.

this is exactly the way i see it..
i got canelo by destruction...

[sunny31]

I think he should pay step aside money, if he agreed beforehand to not have to defend against Golvokin. But I think the WBC have done this to themselves...and Golovkin has been shafted in the process. Let me explain.

Paying step aside money is a normal thing in boxing, and has been done for a very long time, but how many times have you heard of a figure of $800,000?!! That is absolutely ludicrous. The WBC have looked at the earning potential of the fight with Cotto and Canelo, and tried to extort Cotto and exploit his circumstances. Six figures is not out of the question but $100-200k for each of the step aside money and sanction fees would have been closer tot he norm, and as Cotto said he would have accepted something in that ballpark. I am glad this has happened, the governing bodies throw their weight around like anything, but what they didn't realise, or what they overlooked is that the fighter is bigger than the belt. Then only thing which is disappointing is Golovkin has been the bystander who has got caught in the middle. He deserves some money for stepping aside, but not fricking $800,000k, I am pretty sure he has barely made that much money in any of his fights so far.

[Vasyl’s dad]

The agreement that Cotto made with Golovkin and G2 is contingent upon the fact that Cotto would be defending the WBC 160-pound belt against Alvarez. Since he is not going to defend the belt after being stripped, he does not owe Golovkin anything.

The sanctioning fee is ridiculous, whether it is $300,000 or $125,000. What the WBC is doing is the equivalent of extortion. No one should pay $300,000 for the right to a title designation that can be taken away at any time after the fight and after the fee has been paid by the designating body.

lmao extortion. How? Cotto has been paying these fees for years. Now its a problem?

[AllEyesOpen]

It seems, at least to me Cotto wants to have his cake and eat it too. If he has no business at middleweight and no interest in defending the title then he should have already dropped the title, and Golovkin would already be champ. Instead he promised to pay step aside money to GGG so he can use the title to get the upper hand in negotiation with Canelo and drops the title anyways.