Comments Thread For: Showtime's Espinoza: Paul Wanted To Fight Rahman At 215; I Agree With Team Not Allowing It

[Dr_Calvin]

At the end of the day that was just too much weight for Rahman to cut in less than three weeks. That was next to humanly impossible on such a short notice and as a last minute replacement fighter.

I don’t give a toss about Paul or HRJ, but is 16lbs really impossible to lose in 3-4 weeks?

You hear about fighters cutting that much in the week of the fight.

It is hard to know if HRJ was actually struggling with the weight as he didn’t even try to get down.

HRJ is not a big heavyweight either, he could probably campaign at cruiserweight with the right motivation.

[Unidentified]

I don’t give a toss about Paul or HRJ, but is 16lbs really impossible to lose in 3-4 weeks?

You hear about fighters cutting that much in the week of the fight.

It is hard to know if HRJ was actually struggling with the weight as he didn’t even try to get down.

HRJ is not a big heavyweight either, he could probably campaign at cruiserweight with the right motivation.

Try to lose 16 pounds in 3 weeks and report your results...

[vaborikua2014]

Try to lose 16 pounds in 3 weeks and report your results...

I don't like Jake paul but HRJ who I was rooting for only loss 1 freaking pound . There's other in a couple weeks time. He wasn't even trying to lose the weight. I understand if he was having a hard time cutting al the weight but only 1 pound really?

[champion4ever]

I don’t give a toss about Paul or HRJ, but is 16lbs really impossible to lose in 3-4 weeks?

You hear about fighters cutting that much in the week of the fight.

It is hard to know if HRJ was actually struggling with the weight as he didn’t even try to get down.

HRJ is not a big heavyweight either, he could probably campaign at cruiserweight with the right motivation.

That is a very good question but we will never can tell if 16 lbs were too much to ask of HRJ to cut in three weeks.

He weighed 224 in his last fight where he was stopped and between that time to the present;

We really didn’t know how much weight he gained between that fight. It’s very possible that he could have weighed at least 250 lbs or more.

[Roj]

It’s sad that the best discussion on this whole Issue, including why the fight couldn’t go on and the utter lack of professionalism shown by Rahman Jr., isn’t on Boxing Scene - it’s on Chael Sonnen’s YouTube channel.

[Dr_Calvin]

Try to lose 16 pounds in 3 weeks and report your results...

I wouldn't do it to prove a point to a randomer on the internet but I could easily do it for the biggest opportunity of my life.

At over 200lbs+ you can lose 3-4lb per week easy just from diet and exercise, then cut the rest as water the day before the weigh-in.

Jeff Horn cut 10lbs in 15 hours before weighing in against Manny Pacquiao and he was a welterweight.

He did it because it was the biggest opportunity of his life and the cut couldn't have affected him that much as he went 12 rounds with one of the greatest fighters of all time.

[Unidentified]

I wouldn't do it to prove a point to a randomer on the internet but I could easily do it for the biggest opportunity of my life.

At over 200lbs+ you can lose 3-4lb per week easy just from diet and exercise, then cut the rest as water the day before the weigh-in.

Jeff Horn cut 10lbs in 15 hours before weighing in against Manny Pacquiao and he was a welterweight.

He did it because it was the biggest opportunity of his life and the cut couldn't have affected him that much as he went 12 rounds with one of the greatest fighters of all time.

He also lost that day...

[Dr_Calvin]

He also lost that day...

I swear I recall him celebrating and leaving the ring with the belt, it is a shame that all contemporaneous records of the event have been lost, so we will never actually know what happened that day.