Comments Thread For: Manager: Jacobs Was 172, 173 Against Arias; Jackson a Bitter Man!

[Majic]

All legal. Arias shouldve pulled the same move than n hydrated up. They probably knew it was gonna happen anyway. Excuses

[Deletrious]

Lol what's the problem with just saying you rehydrate big? A lot of fighters do that, since when is this a big deal?

The only news here to me is that Jacobs started denying it. His own people were saying he was 180, 182 against Golovkin, then months later Jacobs claimed he was only 175. Now same thing this fight. Just call Arias a sore loser, you don't have to hide your rehydration. It's pretty obvious (refusing to weigh in on fight day) and you sound guilty denying it.

[richardt]

Arturo Gatti weighed in at !41lbs for his fight with Joe Gamache. A day later HBO weighed him at 160lbs for the fight. Some boxers just have the ability to make the weight and then gain an amazing amount of weight in 24 hours and still compete at a high level.

Actually, there were protests that Gatti might never have made the weight limit of 141 pounds set for the bout. Gatti was accused of standing on the scale at the weigh-in barely long enough to have it register any weight which could mean he was easily well over 141 and add to that the fact that the weighing in just before the fight was on an unofficial scale and that actual weight was speculation as well, this can mean anything. And then add to this was the fact that the weigh-in actually was held on February 24th and the fight was February 26th, that was a two day spread, unlike the recent one day spread so that means twice as many meals and liquids. So it is much easier to believe a 12-13 pound difference if you take into account the questionable original weigh-in, the fact that it was two days apart, and topping that off with the unofficial weight before the fight. As to Gatti's diet, Gatti said that after the Feb. 24 weigh-in, he drank three bottles of a sports drink and ate his normal amount of meals. He said the day of the fight he had a substantial breakfast and one other meal. He also questioned whether the HBO scale was accurate, as would anyone with an unofficial scale.

[Afi23]

Obviously, Jacobs is a big guy but all the weight is basically in his upper body. Haven't you seen his "skinny" legs!

[Bronx23]

There is a thing called bone density that maybe you should consider.

quite well aware of that and it changes nothing in regards to my comparison

[kafkod]

How do you know? He never weighed-in on fight day for either GGG or Arias.

He looked the same to me, definitely bigger than 172/3, closer to 180 IMO.

I'm going by what he said and by the way he looked in his workouts the week before the fight. He was obviously lighter than at the same stage in the build up to GGG, you could see that just by looking at him. He was bigger on fight night than Arias, but Arias is small for a MW. There are SWW who come in heavier than 170.

[Ake-Dawg]

quite well aware of that and it changes nothing in regards to my comparison

So you know his bone density and are sure that there is no way he could have been 173 since you are supposedly shredded at 5-9 and 170. Got it.

[Pennsauken1]

Jacobs manager needs to shut his mouth. Arias had a blister on his foot and was limping at post press conference. He congratulated Jacobs and had no excuses but please have some common sense, if you had a job that your feet relied on and you had a blister or bad cut on, you would probably call out from work. Arias stood in there and did the best he could. Jacobs should of knocked him out with bad foot but he didn’t, Jacobs was a cruiser weight fighting a middleweight. I totally agree with Jackson, they need to weigh these guys in on fight day

[livershot73]

“Jackson has become a bitter man because [Sergey] Kovalev left him and Arias has now become a footnote. [Jackson] has nothing left.”

BOOM! Shaka-Laka-Laka BOOM! Shaka-Laka-Laka BOOM!

[nacho daddy]

I don't believe he weighed 172/3 at all. He deliberately missed the IBF weigh-in in the morning against GGG and MUST have been significantly heavier than that, or he would have done it and put on that 2 or 3 lbs after that.

I'm meant to believe Jacobs, who couldn't make 170, or chose not to, on the morning of the GGG fight, only came in 2 or 3 lbs heavier than that limit for this fight?

Doubt it.

exactly no way he weighs 173. 185 is more like it.the amount of ******** lies that saturate every thing you read today is sickening