By Jordan Moskowitz

Miguel Cotto said that Daniel Geale and his camp shouldn’t complain of having to fight at a catch-weight of 157 pounds for their middleweight fight on Saturday since he did it when he faced Manny Pacquiao and he claims he never made an issue of it.

Cotto had to agree to a catch-weight of 145-pounds for the fight with Pacquiao in 2009, which saw the Puerto Rican star get stopped in the twelfth round.

Cotto makes the first defense of his WBC middleweight world title on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. HBO will televise the contest.

 

“I remember in 2009 when Freddie was in the opposite corner,” Cotto said of his fight with Manny Pacquiao. “The best and the most important plan of the negotiation was the catch weight, from a 147 to 145 pounds. If I agree to everything and not to the 145 the fight doesn’t happen."

'Freddie has a responsibility to his fighters. In that case it was with Manny and here it’s with me. Nobody said nothing about the catch-weight in my occasion when I faced Manny. I didn’t say nothing neither. I just agree to make it and I did my weight in that occasion. (Daniel Geale) signed a contract at 157 pounds and I’m expecting on Friday for him to be 157 pounds.”

Cotto was asked why Geale and his people are now complaining about making weight.

“I think he’s having problems (making weight),” Cotto said. “As close to the fight is, he has more pressure to be 157.”