Quote Originally Posted by SweetPea
De La Hoya is a natural welterweight, and I believe at that time his normal walking around weight was in the 150s or low 160s at most. So 156 was simply a natural, in-shape weight for him.
As for Hopkins, there was speculation that he came in extra-light because he was playing a sort of headgame. He wanted to come in weighing the same or less than DLH, because when he won he didn't want people to say he won simply because he was the bigger man, he wanted to be looked at as the better man.
I thought he looked pretty hefty at 154 against mayorga, his shoulders were quite heavily muscled, I think he was 164 in the ring that night if I remember correctly.