Jacobs confirms IBF ruled out rehydration clause. Says GB put in the contract.

[boliodogs]

Why is Canelo even talking about fighting Kovalev at 175 if he is worried about a big middleweight gaining too much weight after the weigh in?

[Richard G]

Rehydration weight bully is nonsense, if boxers want to punish themselves by not drinking enough then in the time involved they risk not getting back to full condition. Which is to the advantage of the other boxer not the rehydrater.

[_Rexy_]

So why this ?


Did Canelo have a rehydration clause when he cherry picked that 168 belt ?

He did, actually. I think he put one on Chavez Jr. too?

[Real King Kong]

So people complained bitterly when Jacobs didn't follow the 10 pound rehydration rule against GGG but now they're complaining that he will have to follow it against Canelo. Incredible.

I’m not sure anyone cares about Jacobs having to follow that rule, it’s more the fact that it looks like gbp are the ones who wrote it into the contract to give canelo any possible advantage, and are trying to play it off like it was the doing of the ibf. It’s ironic too, since canelo used to rehydrate nearly 20lbs as a jmw.

[Curtis Harper]

Anyone besides fans complaining

[jas]

lot of posters in the other thread said this and were proved right

cant believe a drugs cheat

i would have given nelo the excuse that it was probably his team that did it without his knowledge but then was it his team that gave him peds without him knowing? nah, i doubt it

[jas]

Why is Canelo even talking about fighting Kovalev at 175 if he is worried about a big middleweight gaining too much weight after the weigh in?

he's a juicehead

who knows what peds he takes ....

to this day (wilder voice)

[El Gitano]

but Jacobs blew the 2nd day weigh in for the GGG fight. Why can he give himself an advantage and Canelo can't?

[Citizen Koba]

I’m not sure anyone cares about Jacobs having to follow that rule, it’s more the fact that it looks like gbp are the ones who wrote it into the contract to give canelo any possible advantage, and are trying to play it off like it was the doing of the ibf. It’s ironic too, since canelo used to rehydrate nearly 20lbs as a jmw.

This ^. It's less the rehydration limit (which in principle I actually agree with) than the shadiness in trying to claim they were only following IBF rules.

Anyways - ****it - I'm a firm believer that they should return to same day (indeed pre-fight if they were doing it right) weigh ins but I well understand that the increased likelihood of cancelled fights pretty much rules out this possibility.

Oh yeah. For those seeking confirmation:

"Second-day weigh-ins will remain in effect for all other [IBF] bouts," IBF president Daryl Peoples told ESPN. "We changed the second-day weigh-in for unifications after we received a request from one of our members. We had discussed changing the rule prior to the request.

(08/23/17)

http://www.espn.co.uk/boxing/story/_...d-title-fights

[Thuglife Nelo]

Why is Canelo even talking about fighting Kovalev at 175 if he is worried about a big middleweight gaining too much weight after the weigh in?

Don’t act like a *** Boliodogs. A reporter asking Canelo if he’d fight Kovalev or fight at 175 is not the same thing as “why is Canelo talking..”