Quigg fails to make weight by 2.8lbs

If Khan Brook was at Welter and Brook failed to make weight the day before it in a massive stadium fight and PPV would it get pulled?

 

Hes either looking for a weight advantage to make sure he wins, which would be a silly idea as he potentialy loses more than he gains, or his body has simply had enough of the weight cutting and its breaking down, which to me seems to likely answer. Also therea a chamce hes been on some prescription med of some sort and its causing water retention.

 

Itd be up to khan whether he wanted to take the fight still. He could also take a cash penalty from brook. In the case of a ppv event, that would be quite a considerable amount he could take from brook

 

Someone should have been wathing Scott, must have ate the whole airplane supply of kids crayons on the way over. You cant sweat out crayons ,didn't anyone tell him

 

He lives there so doubt he got a plane to be honest mate.

 

One too many happy meals from McDonalds? He loves the toys

 

This must simply be a cynical move by him to knock out Valdez and claim the scalp, and not be interested in the belt.

Valdez is well within his rights to walk away, because you dont miss weight by that much. You know what weight you are throughout camp.

 

No, they would throw more money at the other guy for it to go ahead

 

Probably wants something in his favour considering how foreign fighters are treated in America these days

 

Put the toy down Scott and finish your food. I can see this more I think about it

 

Said he trained 3 times day before weigh in to try lose weight thst won't give him an advantage. Says he is normally 3 pound over day b4 his fights and was this time to but ut would come off. I think something's a miss and he's not being completely honest about events as him and Hearn both looked shocked when he was on scales don't think either expected it. If he's telling truth he would have known b4 he went on the scales.

 

not very professional really, is this the roach effect?

 

It's all well and good going over to work with Roach, but for someone like Quigg, you're a small fish in a very big pond. He's probably been forgotten about in camp

 

exactly how it seems. roach seems to get a lot of credit for the few fighters that do well, but not much stick for the majority getting the **** beaten out of them on a daily basis for no reward. seems fairly unscrupulous in all honesty.

although quigg is the only one to blame for 'missing' weight, was he advised to do it this way? its only costing him 10 grand apparently, and hes a good bit over, enough for the commission to not allow him to lose it before the fight. its definitely not a mistake is it?

 

Roach sleepwalks as trainer these days and the Wild Card isn't the same melting pot of talent it once was in order to compensate for that. Hopefully for Quigg's sake it's still a portal of access to cutting edge doping knowledge.

If the reports of Quigg/Valdez hard sparring over 36 rounds are accurate then you'd expect this to be a competitive fight and that would add a bit of credence to this extra weight being intentionally left on. That doesn't jive with the idea of Quigg as gym rat though. He's always compensated for a slight deficit in skill with his engine and a nasty enough dig to make up the difference. That Quigg doesn't come in almost 3lbs over the limit.

Bad performances following an overhaul of a fighter's training aren't unusual but he'll need to turn the corner in this one. Valdez isn't the type of fighter you're going to beat by eating three punches to land one. He is beatable though and Quigg is/was underrated so I wouldn't write him off.

If it does go badly, I fully expect to hear Roach giving his usual 180° paradoxical advice in the face of what's needed.