Rios Fails to Make Weight

Someone really needs to take control of this. For the second consecutive time he has failed to make the weight. I understand what his strengths are and that he uses his brute strength to bully his opponents, but it becomes an unfair advantage if he can't meet the contracted weight. If he lost, or opponents refused to fight him, it would force his hand and make him move up to a more suitable weight.

 

He's a welterweight, and should move straight up to 147 for his next fight.

He's only risking his long term health by continuously trying to make 135. The commissions should refuse to sanction him to fight at lightweight from now on.

It's not a Guzman scenario, there's nothing to suggest that Rios doesn't train hard, he never comes to the weigh-in with a beer gut or anything.

He's just too ****ing big.

 

jajaa

 

Unprofessional and unfair on opponents.

 

Agreed .

 

:rofl ****. Dude probably thought **** it, I might as well have a beer or two to make me feel better since I won't lose it anyway.

Rios is a big, big guy. Baffles me how he was fighting at 135. Same with Pelos Garcia ighting at 130lbs? **** outta here man. That guy looks even bigger than Rios. Just look at the size of his damn head, and his bone structure. I mean you can see in my avatar how small Pacquiaos wrists are, and he's still able to fight at 147 and look ripped. Then you have guys like Pelos and Rios who are much, much bigger and they're somehow able to fight at 130 and 135.

 

There does seem to be a theme at Garcia's gym for weight cutting.

If he gets Pavlik down to 160 and is in with someone decent, I'll have a tenner on the opponent by knockout, he looked like a corpse against Martinez which was ages ago.... he'd carry 168 or 175 just fine.

Same with Cheato, he probably won't fight again but if he does he ought to be at 160. Tall man, not the most slender either, 147 was dangerously low.

 

Yeah Margarito is another one.

I don't like it. Yeah I understand they do it because they like to have the size advantage over opponents but they're starving themselves at a time when they most need to eat a lot, for energy for all that intense training. Do they not see the irony of this?

Size does not necessarily equal strength anyway. Surely they must be weaker than they would be while not training for a fight. Their bodies must be going into starvation mode and eating away at muscle.

Also, the focus of training camp moves from working on technical things to becoming a fat camp, with a lot of fitness based training. Running around in sweat suits and all that nonsense. Especially since modern day fighters are out of the gym for so long at a time, and pile on the weight, that makes it worse.

Even a lot of the guys that fight below lightweight. As I've said before, a lot of them just look like malnourished corpses to me.

 

He looks ill.

 

He should get fined heavily for this, its unacceptable that he keeps doing this and unfair on opponents who have trained hard

 

I wouldnt say he is unprofessional. I just genuinely think he can't make the weight anymore. He needs to step up in weight, it's as simple as that

 

Dangerously ill, I would say.

 

I think it's the epitome of being unprofessional, if he knew he couldn't make the weight, which he did, then he shouldn't be signing for fights at 135. What the **** would've happened if he had Gamboa in there? A feather against a welter.