Cotto’s weight: “Mum’s the word”
HOLLYWOOD — It was sco
rching heat inside the Pound4Pound gym in South La Cienega in Los Angeles yet Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto is frozen like the ice, silencing himself after a journalist asked about his weight.
The WBO welterweight champion did not respond; same are Phil Landman and Joe Santiago, his conditioning coach and trainer, respectively.
But people observing in the gym estimated the shirtless Cotto’s weight to be around 150 pounds.
“It doesn’t matter,” Santiago said via an interpreter as Cotto prepared to launch into a 90-minute workout to show boxing writers how far
The fuzz was all about the weight after the Mayweather-Marquez bout where Mayweather weigh more the agreed weight, thus his size helped him to win over his foe.
Freddie Roach, Filipino boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao’s trainer said at the Wild Card Gym, “If he’s too heavy, we won’t fight.”
He had earlier said if Cotto goes more than two pounds over the 145-lb catch weight, Team Pacquiao will call off the fight.
“He’s going to have to at least make an effort to lose weight,” said Roach.
As fiery as the days go by, not amused Roach, seeing Cotto’s pictures, said “He has many tattoos. He likes tattoos and we’re going to put more tattoos with punches on his face.”
Both camps have gone in preparation for their bout on November 14, when Cotto will stake his WBO welterweight title at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
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