This is not just about minor details such as stolen lunch buffet tickets during fight week at the MGM Grand or which fighter is on the higher floor or closer to the elevator. Or my favorite of a photographer credential needed at ringside for a rogue radio station.

Miguel Cotto doesn't really want to put his World Boxing Organization (WBO) welterweight belt up against Manny Pacquiao Nov. 14 without one more deal in place. The reason isn't the difference between 145 and 143 pounds.

The reason is the rumored approximate $150,,000 USD sanctioning fee due WBO president Paco Valcarcel. I think this figure it is a tad high. Because that would mean at 3% sanction fee that Cotto is looking at almost $5million for his night's work as the champion, but really he's the opponent against Pacquiao.

Cotto doesn't want to pay that much. If he doesn't pay it, neither should Pacquiao.


Pacquiao wants the title on the line because it would be his 7th different weight division to have won a world title and be a cause for great enthusiasm and pride in his home country, the Philippines.
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Source: www.examiner.com
By: Matt Stolow