First of all, I come in peace as I love Triple G and think that he's definitely one of the top 5 active fighters on the planet. He's the real deal. With that said, I am calling bull**** on his reported weights from the WBC mandated pre fight weigh-ins. I pulled this from the WBC site regarding the 30 day and 7 day weigh-ins for title fights: "Boxers and their representatives, managers, and trainers, and promoters, and not the WBC are solely responsible to arrange the pre-bout safety weigh-ins and medical examinations and tests required by this rule." Basically, the fighters have to report to the WBC the results of their pre-fight testing including the weight and thus can basically say whatever they want. I am sure there is some criteria (ie signed by a doctor) but let's be honest here... GGG was apparently 165 lbs 30 days before the Brook fight. But we all saw in the couple of days leading up to the fight that he was drained and obviously working hard to make weight. There is nothing wrong with this and, as we all know, this is pretty much the norm. Anyway, I think Loeffler is positioning GGG as a small middleweight hoping it will help to make the Canelo fight and also to justify not going up and fighting Ward at 168. GGG struggles to make 160 and is a full blown, big, middleweight, there is no doubt about it. There is no chance in hell that he was really only 165 at 30 days out.
Could be, we cant know for sure, right ? But whats with the "you cant miss pre-weigh more than 10% of weight limit your fighting in" ....is that BS....can you check that out ?...cuz if what u say is true than also this rule is baloney and theres really no repercusion for the fighter. Many boxers report to be just at that 10% limit, how come? Last in mind, Kell Brook
I think the whole thing is BS and should be scrapped if the WBC doesn't have their own staff check the weights. Brook reported 176, exactly 10%, probably thinking it's good strategy for people questioning his decision to move up. Or perhaps this was Eddie Hearn's idea. You have to admit, when people saw the 176 lbs for Brook, there was some chatter that Brook was the bigger man and this was a real fight. For Hearn, this was exactly the kind of message he needed out there to generate more interest in the fight and to sell PPVs. It's all nonsense and we shouldn't pay any attention to the 30 day/7 day weights for WBC title fights.
I think ur right about this. If the wbc dont check themselves who tiped the scale at what weigh, than its pure BS. I remember there was a boxer who didnt comply with the 30 day weigh in, and submited his weigh a day or two later. If I'm not mistaken it was Garry Russel. So it must be BS. I think only if you dont submit a weigh then you cant win the trinket or whatever ish your fighting for, but the fight goes on, your cash stays the same. I think it was the case with Willie Monroe jr before the GGG fight. Silly by Willie if you ask me, but it was his strategy I wasnt paying attention to this before, but spot on PBFred
