Quote Originally Posted by albsur2006
Quote Originally Posted by SecondRoundKO
Noone is faulting Castillo for not making the weight...well to a certain degree I am because 5 lbs is just to much. I'm mad because he LIED. He lashed out several times about being asked about the weight, he said he would have no trouble makig the weight because he wouldn't have a rib injury. Well...? He LIED about everything to save his own a** up until the day of the weigh in. He said he was 140 on Monday. He couldn't lose the pounds? Not even a single pound? He either didn't try or he lied. I'm assuming the latter. If it's impossible to expect him to make 135 then it should have been impossible for him to expect it from himself. He should have at least told his promoter, or Corrales, or someone so this didn't happen. Say he went to Corrales about 2 weeks ago and told him of his troubles, then Corrales' camp could have made a catch weight or something. Or just called the fight off before it got this far. But no. You can't not know that your body is going to be 5 lbs over the week of the weighin, that's just to much weight.
Exactly, it's not like he was 135 this whole time and all of a sudden he jumped to 140. He was 140 for a long time. His weight was being lost at a certain rate during training. He had to know that he probably wasn't going to make the weight. Look I'm honestly over this S***, bottom line, the guy didn't live up to his word. Corrales should move up to 140 and take Castillo's fight with Cotto. Corrales was making the most money, Corrales IMO is the bigger attraction. I would much rather see Corrales-Cotto than Castillo-Cotto. Although the Castillo-Cotto would be a barnburner as well.
No, you get to a weight whilst still eating and drinking whilst training and then you dry up and suddenly loose water and energy sources before the fight before replinishing them.

in training you loose mass, when drying up its mainly water and stored carbs. Thats why fighters suddenly gain weight after the way in, they eat and rink like crazy and their body rehydrates and refills teh energy supplys. you don't actually get to 135 at the end of camp, you'd normaly get to over 140 and loose about 10 pounds of sweat and food by dieting and drying up. its short, intense and hard to moniter and predict...