Comments Thread For: De La Hoya: What Cotto Did is a Disgrace To The Sport!

[Mfalme]

Why is Canelo mad? If he beats Cotto, he still gets the belt. Cotto being stripped basically has no bearing on him.

[boxcityusa805]

Miguel cotto is a genius, Oscar is whining...

No horse in this race, but hear this out...surprised not one person has brought it up.

Cotto wants the Alvarez payday and pays ggg his step aside to make it happen.(more of a genius move had he not paid the fee and dropped the belt without paying ggg, the two could have fought at 154 for WBC jr middleweight and ring middleweight aka Floyd and sugar ray)

Cotto not willing to face ggg at 160, and knows that mandatory doesn't have to subject himself to catch weights.

By not paying the sanctioning fees cotto saves $300,000(down $500,000 due to step aside fee) but still gets Alvarez payday.

If Cotto beats Alvarez , ggg is the WBC champ, and he will no longer be cotto's mandatory. By no longer being the mandatory he can't refuse cotto's insistence on a catch weight.

Cotto offers to fight ggg at 155 for the lineal title and if ggg wants to be the man, he has to make the weight. (Which he wouldn't have to as the mandatory)

Meanwhile in Oscar de la Hoya camp, they paid the sanctioning fee and now if they win and DONT fight ggg(at 160 since he would be Alvarez mandatory) they are cowards!

[Eff Pandas]

Wait...so Oscar is mad that Cotto is dropping the belt before Canelo can drop the belt if he wins???????

Boxing can be so confusing these days.

[285Kid]

LOL Oscar is acting like if Canelo wins this fight his not going to drop the belt... Cotto did the right thing he was never going to fight GGG so why paid a fee

[Teetotaler]

haha danm. Oscar is mostly mad that Cotto used the belt as leverage in negotiation, only for it to be vacated after and before the fight.

[Progrssive_Jedi]

There is really no way for Canelo to duck GGG after this statement, not without

There is really no way for Canelo to duck GGG after this statement, not without looking really bad.

It is going to be glorious when GGG puts an absolute beating on Canelo.

[tiliheels]

Big fan of Oscar the fighter. Oscar the promoter just pisses me off most of the time.

lol but lets cut him a little slack he was fun fighter and at least he doesnt have to go into rehab bc he went on a vickie secret and coke binge this time...thats always a win

[turnedup]

Doesn't matter the belt will end up at the waist of the man who should've won it in the first place in Martinez last fight as a pro. This wasn't about money it was political maneuvering. Negotiate as the champ and drop the belt once the papers are signed. Would be funny if Canelo "hurt" himself this week and cancelled the fight...that's about all that's left in this circus of a fight.

[Teetotaler]

on Nov 15, 2015 at 8:19pm PST

the guy should edit the caption. Even if cotto wins, froid isn't gonna wanna fight him without the title

[KillaMane26]

I wish promoters would just STFU and promote behind the scenes....Like nobody cares about your little two cents and biased rants