Yuriorkis Gamboa Won't Leave Atlantic City With IBF Belt

by Scott Christ on Mar 26, 2011 9:37 AM EDT in Boxing News Analysis

Yuriorkis Gamboa missed the IBF's mandatory morning-of-fight second trip to the scales today, so he won't be leaving Atlantic City with their featherweight belt no matter what happens in tonight's fight against Jorge Solis. Fightnews.com reported the development this morning. Essentially, that belt is only on the line for Jorge Solis. Gamboa does still have the WBA trinket firmly in his grasp -- their SUPER!!!! title -- so don't worry, if he wins he'll still be paying someone "sanctioning" fees next time out.

This marks the second straight fight where the IBF lightweight doodad was basically given away at the Saturday morning re-weigh. Last September, then-titlist Orlando Salido came in heavy on the morning scales and the title was only on the line for Gamboa to win, which he did. The IBF rules state that a fighter cannot weigh in more than 10 pounds over the limit on the morning of the fight. It's not really the worst rule, but I instinctively hate all rules that "sanctioning" bodies come up with, so I'll try to figure out how to hate this one, too. It's early and I'm tired, someone give me a good (enough) reason.

Solis came in at just over 133 pounds this morning, for the record.

The Gamboa-Solis card is live tonight at 9:45pm EDT on HBO. Bad Left Hook will have round-by-round coverage of the event, and we just might even start early with Top Rank's stream of the off-TV undercard starting at 6pm EST. Tom Zbikowski is fighting again, but more importantly there's an interesting scrap between Teon Kennedy (16-0-1, 7 KO) and Jorge Diaz (15-0, 9 KO) at super bantamweight.

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Reason to hate...

Well, I do have a couple of reasons for you to hate the rule.

First, it´s ridiculus to simply put the limit at 10 lbs. There is a big diference between a Cruiserweight only being alowed to move up to 210 lbs, ading only 5 % to his body weight, and a Strawweight going from 105 to 115, adding almost 10 % to his wirght. It may not sound like a big deal, but it is quite a big diference.

Second, I don´t want same day weigh ins at all (exept for the unofficial weight the TV broadcast use as part of their tale of the tape). The reason is that cutting weight is not healthy for you, specially when you are going to get hit hard in the head multiple times. The dehydration is dangerous in of itself and it can make head trauma worse.
The idea with the same day weigh in is that people will cut less weight, wich is a noble goal, but the result will simply be that fighters choose to not dehydrate fully again after the first weigh in so that they can make the second weigh in. This will give them shorter time to recover from cutting weight, and that is not a good thing.
In a perfect world, the fighters would skip cutting the exessive water weight, but we have to accept that we live in a world where a competitor will look for anny possible advantage, and same day weigh ins will only result in fighters not having proper time to rehydrate.

What time is it?
HAWK TIME!

by Igorstyle on Mar 26, 2011 2:20 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks!

Now I really hate it.

Bad Left Hook
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by Scott Christ on Mar 26, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions

the WBO has the same “rule”, well they imposed it to cazares in his fights against calderon
but i doubt they keep tabs on how much juanma is weighing at fight night

by ulises solis on Mar 26, 2011 7:28 PM EDT reply actions