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A disturbingly acceptable trend in boxing is the ritual fighters go through in the days preceding the final weigh-in before a big fight. With the ability to weigh in 30 hours before the actual fight itself, the only time a fighter actually makes weight are the few seconds spent on the official scale.
There reached a point when it looked like Terence Crawford was in danger of having to abandon his lightweight title even before his eventual win over Raymundo Beltran last November. The unbeaten boxer from Omaha, Neb. struggled mightily to shed additional weight from his already lean and muscular frame, with the eerie sequence well-documented in his HBO-televised “2 Days” special.
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There reached a point when it looked like Terence Crawford was in danger of having to abandon his lightweight title even before his eventual win over Raymundo Beltran last November. The unbeaten boxer from Omaha, Neb. struggled mightily to shed additional weight from his already lean and muscular frame, with the eerie sequence well-documented in his HBO-televised “2 Days” special.
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