Pac is the best at any weight. ;)

i think the mercy they were talking about was like in rounds 8 or 9. pacquiao literally just stood there sometimes, and didn’t even bother moving forward. also there were MANY times where pacquiao could have closed the show out (9th specifically), but was content with cotto getting his mind back after getting blasted.

Oh absolutely.

it was pretty obvious that he took it easy on cotto once he starting running around barely throwing jabs

The usual limit is 147. Last night’s limit was 145.

Thats what PBF would say or something like that. BTW negotiations…already happening. Floyd being not a bitch for once and trying to do something awesome!

http://www.fighthype.com/pages/content6228.html?PHPSESSID=2e033710d09262fdc4f492a31a6956c1

I think you just like Manny a little too much.

We should always try to temper our admiration for brave fighters who always make good fights and take on top competition every fight.

but you have forgotten he is making fighters coming down from their natural weight class. The fight between cotto and manny took place at 145 lb catch weight

Actually, I didn’t forget. Cotto was fine at 145 pounds. Everyone agreed he looked strong at the weigh-in. He looked strong in the fight, too, for about six rounds, and then Pacquiao really broke him down.

Lets give credit to who ever deserves it. If Manny is so good, he should move up in weight with no catch weight crap. I do not understand how the boxing organizations play this game.

Money. Really the sanctioning bodies have no real say in it at the end of the day. Never let yourself think it’s anyone besides the promoters who run boxing. If the promoters get together and decide the sanctioning bodies can go screw, then the sanctioning bodies will be done. But they won’t do that because they make each other money, and both sides know it.

And you know, nobody gives Sugar Ray Leonard retroactive crap for this very same thing, and he did it on numerous occasions. But he’s Sugar Ray Leonard: Legend of the 80s. Where is the outcry over Leonard’s catchweight madness?

Apparently this 2 lbs do have a big effect on fighters. Floyd was willing to pay 500K for those 2 lbs against Marquez fight.

It was three pounds, $600K, and the wording seemed to indicate that Golden Boy paid it, not Floyd. Cotto being more of a professional than Mayweather does not make the two-pound argument more valid.

Here is what does not make sense. Manny struggled to put Marquez in the canvas in two different ocasions; but now Manny had mercy on Oscar and Cotto??? I think Manny was being cautious.

Manny struggled to put Marquez on the canvas? He knocked him down four times in two fights. Did you watch Manny-Oscar? Oscar was helpless on the ropes, Pacquiao kept battering him, and then he laid off. That fight should have probably been stopped in the round that Pacquiao outlanded him something roughly equivalent to 7,200-to-4.

And Pacquiao flat-out looked at Kenny Bayless against Cotto like, “What are we doing here?” Miguel ran away from him and had no interest in engaging anymore. Pacquiao could have stormed him and likely put him away. Bayless stopped it on the first decent punch of the 12th round that landed. Freddie Roach wanted Pacquiao to stop Barrera in their second fight, but said that Manny told him he didn’t want to embarrass him, because he’s a legend.

Lets give credit to who ever deserves it.

We are.

I’m sure Floyd will not play the catch weight with Manny.

He shouldn’t.