Edgar Berlanga’s reported fight-night weight final Saturday was 193 kilos for his unsuccessful title problem towards WBA, WBC, and WBO tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez in Las Vegas. That’s an enormous achieve of 25.4 lbs from the 167.6 lbs that the Matchroom-promoted Berlanga weighed final Friday.
Salvador Rodriguez of ESPN Knockout revealed Berlanga’s weight. It helps clarify the scale distinction between the New Yorker Berlanga and Mexico’s Canelo (62-2-2, 39 KOs), who regarded like they had been two divisions aside in measurement contained in the ring.
Boxing Wants Regulation
Fighters that rehydrate into the 190s sometimes compete at gentle heavyweight [175], not at tremendous middleweight, with a weight restrict of 168. For Berlanga to rehydrate 20+ lbs for his fights at tremendous middleweight, it means he needs to be competing within the 175-lb division.
If boxing had been higher regulated with sanctioning our bodies and commissions that enforced strict rehydration limits, fighters wouldn’t get away with ballooning 20+ lbs after weighing in as a result of it’s harmful for his or her opponents.
“I used to be informed that Edgar Berlanga entered the ring tonight at 193 kilos, that’s 25.4 kilos above the 167.6 he weighed on Friday. The Puerto Rican gained by shedding,” mentioned Salvador Rodriguez on X about how a lot Edgar Berlanga entered the ring for his battle towards unified tremendous middleweight champion Canelo Alvarez final Saturday night time on the T-Cell Area.
Canelo ought to have insisted on a rehydration restrict for the battle to forestall Berlanga from ballooning as much as 25+ lbs. Nonetheless, even then, it won’t have labored, given the trendy strategies fighters use to achieve again water weight inside hours quickly.
Weight Bullies Have to Be Eradicated
It’s onerous on the physique, however youthful fighters can do it with out it inflicting them to be sluggish. Therefore, you see many, what some followers name ‘weight bullies’ in boxing, who battle under their pure weight class to achieve an enormous benefit over their smaller opponents.
For instance, if Berlanga had been combating the place he needs to be at gentle heavyweight, he in all probability wouldn’t do properly and wouldn’t be among the many prime 10 within the division.
Even with a wily promoter, a restricted fighter like Berlanga could be over his head at gentle heavyweight, and his profession would quickly be over as a invaluable fighter for networks like DAZN, with him taking part in up the Puerto Rican angle.
