Esham Pickering hit the scales at 8st 9lbs for the first defence of his European super-bantamweight title against Spain's Juan Garcia Martin tomorrow night. The challenger weighed only 8st 7lbs.
Peter Oboh, defending his British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles, also came in light at 12st 4lbs. Challenger Andrew Lowe weighed 12st 5lbs.
David Haye scaled 14st 3lbs for his eight-rounder with American Arthur Williams, who scaled 14stone 5lbs. This new cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lbs gives Haye a big advantage against a 39-year-old used to campaigning at the old limit of 13st 8lbs.
Fight Academy promotes and the BBC televise.
Pickering challenger just a bantam...
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How long have these weight limits been in place for cruiser?bennie wrote:
Peter Oboh, defending his British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles, also came in light at 12st 4lbs. Challenger Andrew Lowe weighed 12st 5lbs.
David Haye scaled 14st 3lbs for his eight-rounder with American Arthur Williams, who scaled 14stone 5lbs. This new cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lbs gives Haye a big advantage against a 39-year-old used to campaigning at the old limit of 13st 8lbs.
Fight Academy promotes and the BBC televise.
Williams is over the limit? Is this allowed? If so, how much margin?
Re: Pickering challenger just a bantam...
The new cruiserweight weight limit of 14st 4lbs (200lbs) has been in since December worldwide (bar the IBF), but the first British cruiserweight title fight at the new weight takes place later this month between Mark Hobson and Lee Swaby at Huddersfield. Swaby believes the weight increase will help him and not the lanky Hobson, who may find his height and reach advantages dissipated by the whopping 10lbs increase between old and new limits.Matchfixer wrote:How long have these weight limits been in place for cruiser?bennie wrote:
Peter Oboh, defending his British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles, also came in light at 12st 4lbs. Challenger Andrew Lowe weighed 12st 5lbs.
David Haye scaled 14st 3lbs for his eight-rounder with American Arthur Williams, who scaled 14stone 5lbs. This new cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lbs gives Haye a big advantage against a 39-year-old used to campaigning at the old limit of 13st 8lbs.
Fight Academy promotes and the BBC televise.
Williams is over the limit? Is this allowed? If so, how much margin?
Arthur Williams, as you see, is over the limit by one pound. It's a non-title eight-rounder so as long as both parties agree to what he weighed, there's no problem.
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Re: Pickering challenger just a bantam...
Thanks for the infobennie wrote:The new cruiserweight weight limit of 14st 4lbs (200lbs) has been in since December worldwide (bar the IBF), but the first British cruiserweight title fight at the new weight takes place later this month between Mark Hobson and Lee Swaby at Huddersfield. Swaby believes the weight increase will help him and not the lanky Hobson, who may find his height and reach advantages dissipated by the whopping 10lbs increase between old and new limits.Matchfixer wrote:
How long have these weight limits been in place for cruiser?
Williams is over the limit? Is this allowed? If so, how much margin?
Arthur Williams, as you see, is over the limit by one pound. It's a non-title eight-rounder so as long as both parties agree to what he weighed, there's no problem.
Re: Pickering challenger just a bantam...
yes they said there werent any problems, williams would of made the weigh if he weighed in nakedbennie wrote:The new cruiserweight weight limit of 14st 4lbs (200lbs) has been in since December worldwide (bar the IBF), but the first British cruiserweight title fight at the new weight takes place later this month between Mark Hobson and Lee Swaby at Huddersfield. Swaby believes the weight increase will help him and not the lanky Hobson, who may find his height and reach advantages dissipated by the whopping 10lbs increase between old and new limits.Matchfixer wrote:How long have these weight limits been in place for cruiser?bennie wrote:
Peter Oboh, defending his British and Commonwealth light-heavyweight titles, also came in light at 12st 4lbs. Challenger Andrew Lowe weighed 12st 5lbs.
David Haye scaled 14st 3lbs for his eight-rounder with American Arthur Williams, who scaled 14stone 5lbs. This new cruiserweight limit of 14st 4lbs gives Haye a big advantage against a 39-year-old used to campaigning at the old limit of 13st 8lbs.
Fight Academy promotes and the BBC televise.
Williams is over the limit? Is this allowed? If so, how much margin?
Arthur Williams, as you see, is over the limit by one pound. It's a non-title eight-rounder so as long as both parties agree to what he weighed, there's no problem.