Much of the world is till unaware that you need no advantages when it comes to fighting anyone from flyweight to welterweight. Now, you?re stepping up to junior middleweight to fight another welterweight who is stepping up to junior middleweight.
So why the catch weights?
On Saturday, at Cowboy Stadium in Dallas, Texas, the indomitable Manny ?Pacman? Pacquiao (51-3-2, 38 KOs) meets Antonio ?Tijuana Tornado? Margarito (38-6, 27 KOs) for the vacant WBC junior middleweight world title. With one proviso: Margarito must not weigh more than 152 the day before the fight.
The brains behind Pacquiao are fearful to allow the Filipino destroyer to fight without some kind of handicap against his opponents. It?s ridiculous.
Despite annihilating his last five opponents in fearsome fashion Top Rank and perhaps an over-cautious Freddie Roach have continued to impose catch weights. There really is no need. The only thing it will accomplish is to possibly wreck Pacquiao?s future legacy in the annals of boxing history.
Though Pacquiao heads toward a record-setting eighth weight division world title in an incredible feat, there have been others before the imposition of junior division titles that could have embarked on similar conquests. Plus, those other fighters of the past did not resort to imposing catch weights to win their titles.
It?s overkill.
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