If you are a fighter who moved up for one fight to fight an aging champion who was small for the class himself, weighed the exact minimum to fight in that weight class, and aren't considered a world class fighter at the weight - but were at every other weight you fought at - then yeah, you probably aren't
well, I take "TRUE" in "TRUE <insert weight class here" to mean "belongs in the weight class, would have difficulty making weight at a lower division, and (barring age) will have as much success at that weight class as they did in earlier classes (if applicable)." Cotto weighed 155 on the scale against Martinez, clearly he can still make 154 & clearly he would be much better there.
TRUE is REED's thing... I don't believe in the concept... You are what you choose to weigh-in at, whether or not it is to your detriment
but surely you understand the application of the term, brother clogg.. if someone put a gun to your head and said "pick which one is the REAL middleweight" and they gave you Miguel Cotto or GGG, you wouldn't be confused about what they meant, you'd pick GGG
TBH if someone brought a gun, I would think Miguel would rather take the bullet than a McClellan right hand
Brother loaded, I totally understand ... GGG is definitely more suited to 160 than Cotto so with a gun to my head I would assume the fellow holding the piece meant that
cotto would sooner choose intercourse with his wife instead of fat brian before agreeing to face golovkin
So then we are in agreement that Cotto is a middleweight in the most technical sense of the term, but in practical terms, he is not a real middleweight as he is poorly suited to the division, and as such does not belong there
We are in agreement that it is to his detriment to campaign at the weight against guys who aren't moving up from Welter or Junior Middle
