"Boom, body shuts down, no more pounds come off - I’m training just to move that weight. No water, no food. We go to Mississippi one week before the fight. I’m only about 138lb so eat chicken and broccoli, and then go running, but I lose nothing. Then more running, I lose nothing. The food stays in my body. Training doesn’t help; there is no sweat, twenty minutes in the sauna, no sweat. I feel bad and work for two days without any sweat. The day of the weigh in, I’m throwing up blood so the doctor checks me and says I cannot fight."

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"I feel bad because people think Guzman has no respect for the fans. I worked hard to lose weight but it was getting me nowhere. I trained three times a day. I die in the gym."

--Joan Guzman, talking about missing weight for his scheduled 2008 fight with Nate Campbell. This is an excerpt from Terence Dooley's excellent two-part interview with Guzman, who rematches Ali Funeka on March 27. Part one is here, part two is here.

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