Guzman seriously overweight for Funeka bout.

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"But according to a source, both fighters will be weighed in at 7 a.m. on Saturday with the stipulation that the fight will commence if Guzman weighs in at 150 or below, and Funeka, at 145 or below."

Feom the above article, There is something I don't quite understand or maybe reading it wrong. To me it seems that Funeka has to weigh in 145 or below and Guzman has to weight 150 or below. I'm confused as something about that doesn't seem to add up. Why should there be a weight restriction like that on Funeka??

Clearly Funeka needs to weigh under 145 to fight for the IBF belt, they are allowing Guzman to go over because he can no longer fight for it.

If Funeka weighed over 145 the fight could still happen (I guess) but Funeka would forfeit the right to fight for a world title as well.

It's not that unfair to Funeka, it's just he's obviously still trying to fight in accordance with the rules for the right to win the belt, whereas Guzman obviously doesn't give a fuck.

It will be interesting to see if Funeka does weigh under the limit or if he comes in heavy and gives up the title opportunity to enhance his winning chances against a much heavier and cheating opponent.

What are you talking about? Funeka made weight at 135 yesterday.

That's what I would figure. I've never heard of a sanctioning body having a restriction on what a fighter can rehydrate to for the unofficial weight in order to still fight for the belt..

[killersheep]

Clearly Funeka needs to weigh under 145 to fight for the IBF belt, they are allowing Guzman to go over because he can no longer fight for it.

If Funeka weighed over 145 the fight could still happen (I guess) but Funeka would forfeit the right to fight for a world title as well.

It's not that unfair to Funeka, it's just he's obviously still trying to fight in accordance with the rules for the right to win the belt, whereas Guzman obviously doesn't give a fuck.

It will be interesting to see if Funeka does weigh under the limit or if he comes in heavy and gives up the title opportunity to enhance his winning chances against a much heavier and cheating opponent.

What are you talking about? Funeka made weight at 135 yesterday.

That's what I would figure. I've never heard of a sanctioning body having a restriction on what a fighter can rehydrate to for the unofficial weight in order to still fight for the belt..

Especially if they weren't checking weight before the fight at 7 and 30 days.

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I am a fan of Joan Guzman but it is really hard too root for him, when crap like this keeps happening. I am still rooting for him though like Fenster will be.

[TheMacMagician]

Clearly Funeka needs to weigh under 145 to fight for the IBF belt, they are allowing Guzman to go over because he can no longer fight for it.

If Funeka weighed over 145 the fight could still happen (I guess) but Funeka would forfeit the right to fight for a world title as well.

It's not that unfair to Funeka, it's just he's obviously still trying to fight in accordance with the rules for the right to win the belt, whereas Guzman obviously doesn't give a fuck.

It will be interesting to see if Funeka does weigh under the limit or if he comes in heavy and gives up the title opportunity to enhance his winning chances against a much heavier and cheating opponent.

What are you talking about? Funeka made weight at 135 yesterday.

That's what I would figure. I've never heard of a sanctioning body having a restriction on what a fighter can rehydrate to for the unofficial weight in order to still fight for the belt..

I've never heard of that either, but they must have something in place, as Bilbo says, to say that you can't rehydrate past 145 for the 135 IBF title. Who knows. Its absolutely not beyond the realms of possibility that the IBF started makin their own rules. Hell, we'll probably have different types of Boxing in another 20 years time evolved from different boxing organisations.

[killersheep]

I stand corrected Bilbo was absolutely right. According to the IBF contest rules.

http://www.ibf-usba-boxing.com/userf...ut%20Rules.pdf

Page 5 paragraph 3



Now I got egg on my face, I fully admit I was wrong. This isn't a bad rule by any means as it kinda helps prevent use of diuretics. How the hell this didn't affect Josh Clottey in his IBF bid against Judah I'll never know.