Comments Thread For: Roach: Cotto-Golovkin Would Have Be Closer To 154

[carloscruz10009]

It's funny how people are calling Cotto a cherry picker when Martinez completely ducked Golovkin hard and cherry picked a 154 pounder to defend his title... And got owned, badly lol.

But no the Ballerina is a warrior and hero. Get the **** out of here.

Martinez knew he wasn't 100%... But who you rAther fight? Cotto or GGG? And who gives you a bigger payday.... Martinez smart he cashed out on the easier fight... GGG would have murdered Martinez that night

[bigjavi973]

the irony. you sound a like a floyd stan years ago regarding cotto.

I see you cant find anything. You mad bro?

[bigjavi973]

cotto fights a blown up featherweight in pac man gets bludgeoned into a gargoyle KO'd while manny was laughing at cottos punches. then cotto fights a middleweight who the cruiserweight chavez could not KO and goes thru him easier then the ring girl would have been. something aint right. somebody got paid a lot of something for cotto to win and his team knows it wanting him to fight at JM

Anyone can tell you have no idea what you are talking about. In the chavez-martinez fight, chavez didn't let his hands go until that last round and we all saw what happened. In the cotto-martinez fight, cotto caught him early in the fight and its hard to recover when your body hasn't warmed up and get your blood and adrenaline pumping. Ask james kirkland about that. The cotto-pacquiao fight is different, there was a clause in the contract that cotto could not rehydrate.

[HeroBando]

Anyone can tell you have no idea what you are talking about. In the chavez-martinez fight, chavez didn't let his hands go until that last round and we all saw what happened. In the cotto-martinez fight, cotto caught him early in the fight and its hard to recover when your body hasn't warmed up and get your blood and adrenaline pumping. Ask james kirkland about that. The cotto-pacquiao fight is different, there was a clause in the contract that cotto could not rehydrate.

link? how did Cotto manage to cover so much ground running from the midget for 6+ rounds, all drained?

[SamuraiSam]

If GGG accepts, then that's on him, but why is Roach always proposing a catchweight? Even Pacquiao vs. Algeri is at a catchweight! Damn, do you really need a catchweight to fight Algeri?

Wouldn't the catchweight mean that Pacquiao is the one being weight drained? After all he IS the welterweight, while Algieri is the one coming up from a lower weight division. It seems to me the catchweight would be more of an act of fairness to Algieri...NOT an advantage for Pacquiao. Right or wrong?

It also seems like a fair return of the karma Pacquiao got when he moved up to welterweight (after beating Hatton at light welterweight) and had the catchweight on Cotto. People seem to ignore the timeline of Pacquiao's movement up the weight divisions and they just blast him for catchweights on his higher weight opponents as if he had always been in the opponent's weight division.

Maybe the Algieri catchweight is a gauge for Pacquiao to see how he feels going back down to light welterweight. Wasn't there talk about how Pacquiao was going back down in weight division, being as small a welterweight as he is? It's no wonder why he relinquished the belt he got over Margarito, and why he would only negotiate a light middleweight catchweight vs Cotto. He seems to know his limits now after testing how far up he can go.

Pacquiao's climb up the weight divisions show how he had the courage to dare to be great. It's a crying shame how his nemesis doesn't have the same courage to walk the talk and make all that money taking on "that yellow sushi & rice cooking midget."

[SamuraiSam]

Make the fight at 157lbs.

Three up for Cotto, three down for Golovkin.

Although I feel that a fight for a lineal title should have no catchweight, if team 3G wants to honor their proclamation about the weights they're willing to go for a big name fight, that "three up, three down" sounds pretty fair to me.

[SamuraiSam]

For me, I just kinda view Cotto as "middleweight champ" the way I view Floyd as the "jr middleweight champ." Unusual circumstances have them technically holding those titles. But their really not relevant to the day-2-day comings and goings of those divisions. I respect logical opinions that see it otherwise. But in my own lil personal boxing universe. I don't need the finality of GGG-Cotto to recognize Gennady as the class of the division. IMO any fighter wanting to claim supremacy at 60 needs to see GGG. And its obvious, Cotto doesn't care much for wanting to lay claim to being king at 60. So I'm fine whether the fight happens or not.

Wow, I think hell froze over. I don't often share the same views as you, but in this case I'm in agreement with everything you said here.

[AntonTheMeh]

It's funny how people are calling Cotto a cherry picker when Martinez completely ducked Golovkin hard and cherry picked a 154 pounder to defend his title... And got owned, badly lol.

But no the Ballerina is a warrior and hero. Get the **** out of here.

exactly. you'll see the majority of them wearing avatars and avi's of the inevitable massacre, but sergio, the guy trying to cash out with cotto avoiding GloveKing, is a martyr.

[AntonTheMeh]

Although I feel that a fight for a lineal title should have no catchweight, if team 3G wants to honor their proclamation about the weights they're willing to go for a big name fight, that "three up, three down" sounds pretty fair to me.

yeah after my initial opinion about the catchweight, i think that's pretty fair.