BoxRec

Correct me if im wrong but when Green caputred the vacant IBO, he weighed considerably under the Cruiserweight limit, so what weight are they fighting at :??

Lethaleigh76 wrote:Correct me if im wrong but when Green caputred the vacant IBO, he weighed considerably under the Cruiserweight limit, so what weight are they fighting at :??

cruiser

Reason i ask the Cruiser limit is 200 pounds, or around 90 kg, danny won the bout at around 81/ 82 kg.

Lethaleigh76 wrote:Reason i ask the Cruiser limit is 200 pounds, or around 90 kg, danny won the bout at around 81/ 82 kg.

Yeh, Its for Greens belt. So they can weigh in anywere under the 200 pound limit.

Lethaleigh76 wrote:Reason i ask the Cruiser limit is 200 pounds, or around 90 kg, danny won the bout at around 81/ 82 kg.

The fight is for the IBO cruiser title mate. He is light for a cruiser, but there you go.

I just found it strange that they are fighting so far under the limit. I wonder if green will bump his weight up a little closer to the limit

Lethaleigh76 wrote:I just found it strange that they are fighting so far under the limit. I wonder if green will bump his weight up a little closer to the limit

Danny would be an awesome site at 200 lbs.

Cruiser is really anything from 176 to 200. I doubt Danny will go much higher than 190. Jones Jr is probably also going to be cautious about packing on too much extra muscle if he wants to get back down to 175 to whoop B-Hop again...

Roy had trouble last time he had to get down to light heavyweight.

His win over Hopkins was at middleweight and 16 years ago. It does not have much to do with the current situation.

Except that Roy Jones Jr is ROY JONES JR and Bernard Hopkins is bernard hopkins.

It's a strange situation. Will both come in at around 185 lbs?

More than likely I reckon. It is stil a cruiser weight fight. There is nothing that says you must weight 200lbs.

Marlin wrote:Except that Roy Jones Jr is ROY JONES JR and Bernard Hopkins is bernard hopkins.

i love it

It's something I've been thinking about too - I was a little surprised when Green weighed in at 179.5 (81.6kg) for the Dominguez fight, considering it was for the IBO Cruiserweight title, so he could have weighed 20.5lb (9.3kg) more if he had wanted to.

I agree with the earlier statement about Jones and BHop, I don't think we'll see Jones over 185lb. Green has previously written that he loses 6kg to get down to light heavy, so if he doesn't drain he could conceivably be around 190lb. I don't think the extra weight will be much of an advantage to Green, we all know that he can knock Jones out, the question is whether he can land the punches in the first place.

It's obvious we need a Junior Cruiserweight division (185 - 200). And a Junior HW (201 - 220) division, but not to be confused with the previously named Jnr HW division which was infact the old cruiserweight division according to the WBA. And we also require a super dooper pooper HW division for fatties too lazy to lose weight (250+). Wouldn't that be great

who are you call fat

toppity wrote:who are you call fat

Sorry You can fight in the new 'Junior Super Welterweight' division (151)

yeah.......but then he would have to put his other leg on the scales........sorry toppity

bollox wrote:It's obvious we need a Junior Cruiserweight division (185 - 200). And a Junior HW (201 - 220) division, but not to be confused with the previously named Jnr HW division which was infact the old cruiserweight division according to the WBA. And we also require a super dooper pooper HW division for fatties too lazy to lose weight (250+). Wouldn't that be great

There was talk of a 'Dreadnought" Division when Carnera was fighting because of his great size. In spite of this there have been many fighters under 220 pounds who beat fighters over 250 pounds.

jones's hevaiest was 196 so i recon around 180 as he wouldnt want to have a burn out like last time he came down

Adamj1987 wrote:jones's hevaiest was 196 so i recon around 180 as he wouldnt want to have a burn out like last time he came down

When Jones fought Ruiz the commentators said Jones was over 200 lbs when he entered the ring.

Brute wrote:

bollox wrote:It's obvious we need a Junior Cruiserweight division (185 - 200). And a Junior HW (201 - 220) division, but not to be confused with the previously named Jnr HW division which was infact the old cruiserweight division according to the WBA. And we also require a super dooper pooper HW division for fatties too lazy to lose weight (250+). Wouldn't that be great

There was talk of a 'Dreadnought" Division when Carnera was fighting because of his great size. In spite of this there have been many fighters under 220 pounds who beat fighters over 250 pounds.

That would have been pointless. There were virtually no deserving contenders to challenge him that weighed 250+. It's debatable whether Primo was genuinely worthy of a title fight himself, due to the mafia connection issue

Asterix wrote:It's a strange situation. Will both come in at around 185 lbs?

i believe the contract weight is 180 lbs. technically a cruiser fight.

bjermaine wrote:

Asterix wrote:It's a strange situation. Will both come in at around 185 lbs?

i believe the contract weight is 180 lbs. technically a cruiser fight.

Ah, OK, thanks. Both will be good at that weight.

Asterix wrote:

bjermaine wrote:

Asterix wrote:It's a strange situation. Will both come in at around 185 lbs?

i believe the contract weight is 180 lbs. technically a cruiser fight.

Ah, OK, thanks. Both will be good at that weight.

yea and wont be too hard for jones to boil back down to LHW