Comments Thread For: Canelo, Jacobs Weights From Contracted 2nd-Day Weigh-In Sealed

[SweetPbfAli]

This has zero relationship to what fmj did. Fmj had already fought at 154 twice before canelo & was the champ,& canelo had made it clear he couldn't comfortably make 152 since age 20. Fmj bragged about intentionally weight draining canelo so he would go to bed hungry & worry bout weight instead of training. Jacobs has fought with this same stipulation in every fight before since hes been fighting for the ibf he holds. Hes literally doing the same routine hes always done. Making a fighter only weigh 10 lbs by 8am day of the fight has no relationship to intentionally weight draining them by making them go down in weight from where they are capable of without seriously handicapping themselves.

Canelo and his team offered to meet Floyd at 152 to get the fight and Floyd called their bluff. Canelo has never made that an excuse for the the loss.

[kushking]

Both situations are different but if Canelo didn't think that a second-day weigh-in could give him an advantage over Jacobs, he wouldn't do it. Floyd was tha A-side so he drained Canelo to 152. Canelo looked bad at the weigh-in and in the ring. I gave Floyd little credit for that win, but sheeps did give him full credit for it. When Canelo was the A-side, he fought Lara at 155 to avoid draining himself.

Yes he definitely uses his A-side status to always have the edge. But what I've noticed is that 1 fighter will ALWAYS have an edge over the other even when its supposedly even or fair. Jacobs is definitely the bigger fighter of the 2,so I agree that Canelo CLEARLY used this to his advantage,im merely making the distinction that Jacobs still gets to go up as much as he wants after & that hes already used to this.

[marvin douglas]

I still don’t understand why boxing doesn’t go back to same day weigh-ins. They went to day before weigh-ins in the name of fighter safety. But if fighters would fight in their natural weight divisions, there would be no health risk in making weight the morning of the fight.

It all goes back to Mike Spinks and Eddie Mustapha. Eddie came in overweight on the day of the fight. Spinks refused to go forward. Fight cancelled.

That can't happen to day especially with pay per view. So they have the 60, 30 and 10 day pre-weigh in to make sure a fight can't come in overweight.

And the overweight fighter has to attempt to lose the weight and he becomes drained.

I do agree that all hey have to do is fight in their natural fighting weight -- the weight they come into the ring. But then guys couldn't win multiple tiles in multiple divisions

[Pigeons]

There is no IBF second-day weigh-in anymore for unification fights.

Got it, didn't know that.

[kushking]

Canelo and his team offered to meet Floyd at 152 to get the fight and Floyd called their bluff. Canelo has never made that an excuse for the the loss.

That win has an asterisk because floyd FORCED canelo to go down when he made clear he wasn't able to go so low anymore because his body had grown too much. Floyd used an article on boxingscene that was referencing an old chepo qoute that said hed be willing to go to 152. He then bragged incessantly about intentionally weight draining canelo & taunted him with lobster & steak.


You can spin it however you want & I think floyds the best of his era but he was saying for yrs that pacs cw wins don't count because he supposedly had them at a disadvantage & fmj claimed he would never do that because he wants his opponents at their best & not like manny who drains them to gain an advantage.

[Real King Kong]

Canelo and his team offered to meet Floyd at 152 to get the fight and Floyd called their bluff. Canelo has never made that an excuse for the the loss.

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2802237

[Shadoww702]

I bet Jacobs was over.

You are CORRECT and now owes $1,000,000

[Shadoww702]

Canelo made 169 and Jacobs 173.6 has to pay $250K per lb. $1,000,000 penalty

[Shadoww702]

It’s this right here but they should just say they were both over so what

Canelo wasn't over

[JonDP]

Jacobs a cruiser weight right before the fight. This is what he meant all those times he said he would use “all his physical attributes”