By Edward Chaykovsky
Marco Antonio Rubio's inability to make the middleweight limit must have come as no surprise to Domenico Spada.
Last month, Spada made allegations - to BoxingScene.com's Ben Jacobs - that someone manipulated the official scale for his April fight in Mexico with Rubio.
He believes the scale was altered to ensure Rubio made the 160-pound limit for their WBC interim-world title fight.
"I mean, I work my ass off to make middleweight and then you rob me of two kilos on the scales? Two kilos is not a small thing, you know? I know that the scales were altered because just a few minutes before in the hotel I weighed 72.5 kilos (around 159.8lbs), then at the weigh-in I was 71kilos (around 156.5lbs),” said Spada who returns on October 25th against Martin Murray in Monte Carlo.
On Friday, Rubio weighed almost two-pounds over the limit for tonight's fight with WBA/IBO champion Gennady Golovkin. Rubio was 161.8-pounds. Rather than sweat off the excess weight, he opted to take a financial hit of $100,000 dollars.
