Official Andy Lee vs. Peter Quillin Discussion thread

[jas]

Quillin 1.4 pounds over.
Will we ever get a PBC event where somebody isn't overweight?

Lol we called it a few days ago

umm, i wonder how qullin and lee are doing as far as making weight

quillin been inactive

In the past, people have said he's had trouble making weight (big for the class) Then he was overweight once, before making weight the second time... IIRC

"You mean this guy can punch?"


Looks a little heavy to me, must of thought Lee was a joke. Too bad the joke's on him.

mathed- yea quillin doesnt have a small waist

dont think he ever has though?

wouldnt surprise me if he didnt make weight first go around

or makes weight and has stamina issues, last couple fights he has fought at a low pace

rosado was about to snatch his soul and a lucas konecny 20 years past his prime was giving him the business

[Eastcoast]

Should've had his *ss on a scale rather than standing around a tv studio all morning. Honestly blame Al for this.

[PACnPBFsuck]

I'm not on Meerkat, but Quillin evidently missed weight

You think it was intentional?

[Hougigo]

You think it was intentional?

Nah because he was working at it last night and worked in the two hours he had up to the last minute..... where he was still 6 ounces over

[PeasantCrusha]

Damn, WAR Quillen! Dude has overcome some fcked up **** in his life.

[Luiz]

Former middleweight titleholder "Kid Chocolate" Peter Quillin will not have the opportunity to regain the belt he vacated in September because he did not make the 160-pound weight limit on Friday afternoon for his bout against titleholder Andy Lee.

Lee and Quillin will still meet in a 12-round fight Saturday night (NBC, 8:30 ET) at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, but Quillin cannot win the title and Lee cannot lose it.

Ireland's Lee, who won the title Quillin vacated in December, weighed 159.6 pounds while Quillin, of Brooklyn, initially weighed 161.4 pounds. Per New York State Athletic Commission rules, Quillin had two hours to lose the excess weight but could get down only to 160.6 when he returned to the scale about 90 minutes later.

Lee, 30, will hold the title regardless of the outcome of the bout because of WBO rule 4 (c) (2), which says, "If the champion makes the weight and the challenger fails to do so, the champion, whether or not he loses the fight, shall retain the title."

Quillin (31-0, 22 KOs), who has not fought for a year, made an effort to lose the extra weight but could not and was apologetic.

"What can I say? I didn't make weight," said Quillin, 31. "I want to apologize to Andy Lee and to all my supporters and fans. I made every effort to make weight but it just wasn't meant to be, and I have no one else to blame but myself.

"I may not win a title (Saturday) but I still have a fight to win, and I plan to put on a good performance. I promise to use this as a learning experience for the future. God bless."

Lou DiBella, Lee's promoter and promoter of the card, said Quillin looked dehydrated when he returned to the scale.

"I think that Andy and his whole team were gratified that Peter tried to lose the weight. He didn't just blow it off and start drinking water," DiBella said. "He pretty much came back spent. He couldn't make weight and he didn't look good. What are you gonna say? He pays a price: Andy retains the title and Peter can't win it. Andy did what he was supposed to do."

Although there are no weight fines by the New York commission, the camps struck a deal under which Quillin must pay Lee $125,000 of Quillin's $500,000 purse to go through with the bout.

Lee's $500,000 purse got a bump to $625,000, but he will make even more thanks to what he will earn from European television rights.

DiBella declined to discuss the specifics of the deal between the camps but said Lee (34-2, 24 KOs) was "happy with the way things worked out."

Unified junior welterweight champion Danny Garcia (29-0, 17 KOs), 27, of Philadelphia, and titleholder Lamont Peterson (33-2-1, 17 KOs), 31, of Washington, D.C., who will meet in the 12-round main event -- but in a nontitle bout -- both made their contract weight of 143 pounds. Garcia weighed 142.2 pounds and Peterson was right on 143.

Bigger things doe. 1.4m nothing doe

[Eastcoast]

Bigger things doe. 1.4m nothing doe

There's more money for the fighters than that involved. I think they keep the salaries reported to the commission down to limit the taxes, NYC would kill the fighter purses. Andy Lee being a foreign fighter loses an automatic +30% to Federal, but I see they got around that by giving him the foreign tv money. So maybe he only pays federal, state, and city taxes on that $625k. Quillin said before he was getting over a mill for this fight and that seems realistic given the money Al's been giving out.

[Jubei]

There's more money for the fighters than that involved. I think they keep the salaries reported to the commission down to limit the taxes, NYC would kill the fighter purses. Andy Lee being a foreign fighter loses an automatic +30% to Federal, but I see they got around that by giving him the foreign tv money. So maybe he only pays federal, state, and city taxes on that $625k. Quillin said before he was getting over a mill for this fight and that seems realistic given the money Al's been giving out.

If the clown himself said it, it must be true. He is making 375k now and not whatever you make up in your own mind.

[Guest]

I guess it's time for Kid Chocolate to move up so he can eat some more chocolate.

[SlySlickSmooth]

Quillin came in overweight then reweighed still over the limit.

It's a non-title fight now.