Fans keep forgetting that Mikey walks around at 165 give or take. He is not that small. He will still need to drain down almost twenty pounds to make weight for this fight.
Walk around weight means absolutely nothing. Weigh-in weight and fighting weight does. Hatton used to weigh 190lbs between fights but he didn't fight at that weight.
Mayweather-Marquez
De La Hoya-Pacquaio (turned out the draining had more impact than the size)
Margarito-Pacquaio (Margarito was shot though)
Hopkins-De La Hoya
I'd say Mayweather-Pacquaio was similar to Spence-Garcia in size but at least Pacquaio had acclimatized. History is full of lightweights challenging welterweights and welterweights challenging middleweights but back in the days the fighters fought more and often the non-title and interim fights were over the weight so the fighters got acclimatized to the weights a bit more. One case that it didn't was Carlos Monzon vs. Jose Napoles. Napoles, a natural lightweight, was the reigning welterweight champion because that's the only division he got a shot and then he was grossly undersized facing Monzon. He started well but was simply too small and was beaten up badly. I see that happening in Spence-Garcia.
Fans keep forgetting that Mikey walks around at 165 give or take. He is not that small. He will still need to drain down almost twenty pounds to make weight for this fight.
this right here.. mikey is a big bone stocky guy. dont be fool by him fighting at the lower weights.
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