Heavy-Weights from Cancun, Castillo WAY Overweight

[JakeNDaBox]

The heavyweights stepped to the scales for a ceremonial heavyweight weigh in at the beautiful Royal Hotel in Cancun tonight in preparation for the first heavyweight championship ever in Mexico on Saturday pitting WBC heavyweight champion Oleg Maskaev vs. WBC interim heavyweight champion Samuel 'The Nigerian Nightmare' Peter. [details]

[Silencers]

Maskaev 243, Peter 250, Castillo Has 24 Hours to Lose 7 1/2 Pounds

Oleg Maskaev and Sam Peter weighed in today in Cancun, Mexico in advance of their WBC heavyweight title clash on Saturday. Maskaev's weight of 243 lbs. was just 1/4 pound from his career high and five pounds more than he weighed when he defeated Hasim Rahman for the title in 2006. Peter's weight of 250 lbs. was the same as he weighed for his previous fight against Jameel McCline. The fight will be televised live in the United States in an HBO World Championship Boxing doubleheader (9:30 ET/6:30 p.m. PT) that also includes undefeated WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight champion Juan 'Baby Bull' Diaz taking on IBF No. 1-ranked mandatory challenger Nate 'Galaxxy Warrior' Campbell.

In an unusual occurrence, Jose Luis Castillo was invited by WBC President Jose Sulaiman to step to the scales after the heavyweights in advance of Friday's official weigh in for the lower-weight fighters. He tipped the Toledos at 147.5 pounds and will need to make 140 pounds by Friday's weigh in to qualify for the scheduled WBC super lightweight eliminator against undefeated WBC No. 1-ranked contender Timothy 'Desert Storm' Bradley.

Credit to *********. Castillo isn't going to make weight and I think Peter should have come in around 240.

[Vladimir303]

Credit to *********. Castillo isn't going to make weight and I think Peter should have come in around 240.

A nigerian and a russian fighting in a main even in mexico?

What's up with that?

On top of that, has there ever been a fight in mexico above the feather/super/light limit?

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I think it's the first time a heavyweight championship fight is staged there.

[STEELHEAD]

peter looked bad against mccline at that weight. oleg hasnt fought in over a year... don't think either are in it for the long haul.

is it going to be warm down there?

[Undefeated]

Damn. 7 1/2 pounds.

He not gonna make it.

[Vladimir303]

Any pictures of the weigh-in? Peter's manager is claiming that Peter is in the best shape of his life. Could be Delahoya-esque talk or he might just be in great shape.

[Scott9945]

A nigerian and a russian fighting in a main even in mexico?

What's up with that?

On top of that, has there ever been a fight in mexico above the feather/super/light limit?

Jose Napoles defended the welterweight title in Mexico at least twice.

[Silencers]

Any pictures of the weigh-in? Peter's manager is claiming that Peter is in the best shape of his life. Could be Delahoya-esque talk or he might just be in great shape.

I can't find any yet.

[ИATAS]

Any pictures of the weigh-in? Peter's manager is claiming that Peter is in the best shape of his life. Could be Delahoya-esque talk or he might just be in great shape.

found these, but they don't reveal much