Comments Thread For: Andre Ward, Jeff Fenech React To Horn Struggling To Make 147

[JLC]

2 things;

1. "Australian boxing great" LOL! Now there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one

2. Jeff Fenech is lower than a dog and a rat - Jeff Horn deserves to be criticised but your own countrymen are supposed to stand by you. Dogshyt lack of loyalty and honour, Jeff Fenech can **** his pet goat (which happens to be his wife)

Isnt Fenech Australian? Isnt he in The International Boxing Hall of Fame? I would say that pretty much qualifies as an Australian Boxing Great.

Nothing wrong with calling out fighters even from your home. Means he isnt a nut hugger.

[Letmaku]

I feel like same day weigh ins will stop all this weight bully nonsense

Yes, one hour before the fight. Overweight boxers will forfeit his payment (and his title) plus pay a penalty and suspended for one year in boxing. By these boxers will surely come to fight underweight instead of cheating.

[komandante]

I starved myself that's why I lost, waiting for this from Horn.

[PunchyPotorff]

Always someone else's fault. SMDH

[Lomasexual]

Jeff Horn deserves to be criticised but your own countrymen are supposed to stand by you.

If something is wrong, you should say it is wrong, no matter what the nationality of the people involved are.

Anyway, this weight thing seems like a small deal, nothing to get worried over or excited about.

It certainly won't alter the outcome of the fight, or influence it at all. Bud is going to win convincingly. Nothing is going to change that.

[Lomasexual]

Yes, one hour before the fight. Overweight boxers will forfeit his payment (and his title) plus pay a penalty and suspended for one year in boxing. By these boxers will surely come to fight underweight instead of cheating.

I honestly think that the only real solution is to weigh boxers over a longer timeframe.

Check their weight one hour before the fight, but also check their weight at two random times within the fortnight leading up to the fight.

Get people fighting at their natural, healthy weight.

[moochi]

Isnt Fenech Australian? Isnt he in The International Boxing Hall of Fame? I would say that pretty much qualifies as an Australian Boxing Great.

Nothing wrong with calling out fighters even from your home. Means he isnt a nut hugger.

Indeed a boxing legend overall, it took 30 or so years for one of his records to be broken only a month or so ago by Lomachenko.

[markther]

Get in there without getting hit? Did this ****** just say that? Horny has a better chance at swimming without getting wet....GTFOH....dumb ass alcoholic aussie!!!!

[Kiowhatta]

It's really no surprise - Horn is more of a natural 154 or even 160 pounder; I bet he walks around at about 165.

If he (or when) he loses this fight, he can blame weight issues and will do what most fighters do- skip up to 154.

Being 5'9'' he could go as far as 160. Fenech had problems making weight during his career.

He debuted as a superfly about '84, then went all the way to Jr Welter to fight Phillip Holliday for the IBF strap in '96.

Even the late great Emmanuel Steward commented on the torture Fenech went through during his illustrious career making weight.

It won't matter in my opinion- Horn shouldn't even be here- and I'm Australian. It should be Pac v Crawford.

Horn is lucky he's educated, he can always go back to teaching.

[Vinny83]

Fighters that only make weight late do not have a weight advantage late on.
They are drained from exhausting themselves to cut that final weight.
Example: Benn vs Eubank
I’m a big boxing and ufc fan and I’m so fed up with these fighters not making weight, it’s a huge problem.