People do realise that Tim Bradley was really the bigger man than Rios right?

[soul_survivor]

One man is taller and weighs more but...he is small?

[Superbee]

Rios looked awful.

That pretty much sums it up...

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[Pac=Duran]

Just because you weigh a certain amount on fight night does not mean you are naturally the bigger man and should therefore instinctively move up to that weight class.

Case and point; look what happened tonight.
Brandon has no business being at welterweight because of the amount of fat he carried, Tim Bradley was really the much bigger man because of all the muscle while being ripped to shreds. When you fight while being ripped and in condition/healthy, regardless of how much you weigh you really are in your true weightclass.

If Rios actually bothered to diet properly and not get so fat in the off season his true weightclass should be at SuperFeatherWeight or in the Lightweight division.
He isnt too big for the division people, hes just a fat guy masquerading as a WW or a fkin MW on fightnight.
Another example is Chris Arreola, here is a guy fighting in the heavyweight division when his bodyfat is high enough for him to be clinically obese. Yet he is a natural heavyweight? Get the f**k outta here LOL
If he dieted to a weight where he was fairly lean the guy would be a cruiserweight at best.

Canelo is slightly different, he has enough muscle mass where he could actually fight in the MW division. He wouldnt be a big MW by any means though (when comparing to someone like a Chris Eubank Jr or Martin Murray who are true big MWs).

Fat is not true size. When you grow into a weightclass it means you gain muscle, not because you're too lazy to diet down and strip the fat off.

There is no other way you can frame that molly whooping we saw last night other than Rios came in under prepared, fat and bloated, Tim did was he does, with a focus on the soft belly of Rios, and Brandon was forced to the matt twice from body shots then quit.

A totally disgraceful performance by Rios, lets be honest.

[Scott9945]

There is no other way you can frame that molly whooping we saw last night other than Rios came in under prepared, fat and bloated, Tim did was he does, with a focus on the soft belly of Rios, and Brandon was forced to the matt twice from body shots then quit.

A totally disgraceful performance by Rios, lets be honest.

That's the bottom line. Rios was absolutely not in anything resembling fighting shape.

[Hougigo]

I now hate your posts because of that Rousey gif

Don't hate the future P4P #1 female fighter and probably top 10 P4P future boxer

[bojangles1987]

Did you see what that fatass looked like at lightweight? He literally could not make the weight and looked like he a skeleton wearing a skin suit while missing weight.

[-Hyperion-]

Rios is a welterweight at the least....only his innate talents (chin-decent power) were maximized when he was fighting smaller men who would get tired punching him but couldn't hurt him. At this weight he doesn't have the size advantage that always helped him.

Tim is well conditioned and strong for his size, with a good chin and massive heart. Rios' only opportunity was to fight a shot Bradley or an overtrained one.

[mathed]

Rios looked massive in the ring last night. He resembled some kind of creature from a horror flick, a swamp thing or a sloth, something like that.

[Slip Stream]

More than his overall condition, which was awful, Rios has all of the footwork of a sloth. The guy is too slow and too limited for a guy like Bradley. My only concern for Bradley is that even though he beat Rios like scrambled eggs, he still got hit with some good shots. But at the end of the day Rios never had a chance....

[-Kev-]

No chance in hell Rios with his body frame is a SFW-LW. I think 140 is already pushing it. You have your guys with smaller frames like Genaro Hernandez and Diego Corrales who's best weights were 130-35. But look at their frames, they were skinny and those weight classes benefitted them. Look at Rios' back, look at his head. He's a WW who didn't do proper weight training.