Ill tell you what the issue is. When Chavez fought whitaker they were both coming previously from 135 from years before, they were roughly the same size. Both fighters were undisputedly the best from their division, so it was agreed that meeting in the middle would be fair. Neither chavez nor whitaker would be hurt from the weight issue, and chavez when he was in shape, never balooned to these insane weights, if i remember correctly, i think he only weighed like 144/146 against de la hoya in their fight at 147. Regardless, the rules were manipulated with ease because neither fighter would be losing any amount of strength or feel "weak" due to the loss of weight.
With cotto/pac, we all know that in the age of dehydrating and rehydrating, it creates a situation where one fighter will be at a noted disadvantage even with the loss of a couple of pounds. While i dont really care about this fight all that much, i am fully aware that its cottos choice to engage in the weight loss for money.
Another argument "cotto will be too big come fight night thats why the catchweight is nessecary"
both pac and cotto manipulate the rules when it comes to weighing in/next day weigh in. When pac was coming in at 145 for fights at 130, none of you had issue with that. Should marquez have tried to negotiate a catchweight of 127? No. Which is why i also feel that if you want to fight for a 147 lb belt, you should probably coming in at...147.
If pac wants to do what floyd mayweather did, which is show up at 150 lbs for a 154 lb fight, that should be all good. But the idea of these catchweights and fines for extra lbs on fight night and what have you is whatever to me. there is no need for divisions when everyone is creating their own.
I think i would feel different if cotto called out pac and was demanding a fight with him, but this fight is purely about money being kept in house using 2 rabid ethnic fanbases and pitting them against each other for the sake of a "mega fight".
If i made any factual mistakes regarding my analysis of the whitaker/chavez fight please let me know.
With cotto/pac, we all know that in the age of dehydrating and rehydrating, it creates a situation where one fighter will be at a noted disadvantage even with the loss of a couple of pounds. While i dont really care about this fight all that much, i am fully aware that its cottos choice to engage in the weight loss for money.
Another argument "cotto will be too big come fight night thats why the catchweight is nessecary"
both pac and cotto manipulate the rules when it comes to weighing in/next day weigh in. When pac was coming in at 145 for fights at 130, none of you had issue with that. Should marquez have tried to negotiate a catchweight of 127? No. Which is why i also feel that if you want to fight for a 147 lb belt, you should probably coming in at...147.
If pac wants to do what floyd mayweather did, which is show up at 150 lbs for a 154 lb fight, that should be all good. But the idea of these catchweights and fines for extra lbs on fight night and what have you is whatever to me. there is no need for divisions when everyone is creating their own.
I think i would feel different if cotto called out pac and was demanding a fight with him, but this fight is purely about money being kept in house using 2 rabid ethnic fanbases and pitting them against each other for the sake of a "mega fight".
If i made any factual mistakes regarding my analysis of the whitaker/chavez fight please let me know.
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