Miguel Cotto PISSED about Weight Issue – Breaking Boxing News

WBC middleweight champion Miguel Cotto and challenger Daniel Geale faced off at today’s final press conference in advance of their HBO-televised clash on Saturday at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Miguel Cotto: I think people are making a big issue that doesn’t need to be a big issue. A catch weight is nothing I made up. In 2009, Freddie (as Manny Pacquiao’s trainer) made me go down from 147 to 145. Did anyone hear Miguel Cotto disagreeing with the catch weight? No. Catch weight was our main point to make this fight happen. They knew. His group had agreed to go down to 157 and I hope he can be at 157 on Friday.

Freddie Roach: Gary’s making a big deal about the catch weight, but he’s been around for a long, long time and he knows how to read a contract and he’d had that contract for a long, long time now. So I don’t think it’s an issue.

Daniel Geale: I can’t wait to walk away with another title. I’m going in there very confident. I know a lot of people aren’t giving me much of a chance, but I’m very excited. I have a huge amount of confidence in myself knowing that I’ve done a great training camp and knowing I put everything I possibly could into it.

Gary Shaw: I’d like to do away with catch weights. They’re fine if there’s not a title, make up whatever fight you want. But to me there’s enough confusion in boxing without further confusing the boxing fan as to what they’re watching.