Teofimo Lopez Junior Does Something Interesting With His Victory: GIF Spotlight

I confess, I don't know anything about Fortnite, and I had no idea what this young man was doing. I thought maybe it was a strange fit. I worried for his health. Teofimo Lopez Junior recently went from a strange, cuffing, abrupt knockout victory over Vitor Jones Freitas, to this "L" dance from a video game, followed by a far more studly gymnastic gesture. One of the funnier wins I've seen in boxing. I can't wait for his next win!

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Here, defending the Lightweight Championship of the world is Floyd "The Matrix" Mayweather Junior, against the extremely frustrated Phillip Ndou, the first of November, 2003, on HBO. No, it's not Andre Dirrell, it's Floyd Mayweather Junior. Referee Frank Garza is clearly working on some kind of slapstick routine here, on the side. Mayweather is putting on a modern boxing classic performance against the determined South African, while Garza is working on a Vaudevillian revival act; it's amazing.



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        (pictured above is Terence Crawford weighing in for Raymundo Beltran for a Lightweight Division match, 2014)

For our resource regarding all rehydration weights in our file, please see this link:  
Fight Night Boxing Weights: A List Of Unofficial Weigh-in Weights After Rehydration




This page is here for your reference, comprised of all talk of Terence Crawford's weights in the ring that I find relevant, with as full a list as I can find of his unofficial/rehydration weights (and where they went unlisted), or what he likely weighed on fight night, going into the ring, as opposed to his listed official weigh-in weights, which are often misleading in a fighter's career. If you have a source to a missing weight you want to see up here, please link me to a source, so that I may verify it myself. Same for all corrections would be helpful. I will update this page as new information is found. Thanks to HBO for their focusing on this detail when they are able in their broadcasts. Please note, earlier fights before HBO that I've seen from other channels do not ordinarily do unofficial weights.

Highest unofficial/rehydration weight in our records: 153 lbs, for Lightweight match with Raymundo Beltran

Lowest unofficial/rehydration weight in our records: 149 lbs, for Lightweight match with Andrey Klimov

From latest to earliest:


2014:


November:


Terence Crawford VS Raymundo Beltran - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 153
Beltran: 147


June:


Terence Crawford VS Yuriorkis Gamboa - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 152
Gamboa: 145


2013:


October:


Terence Crawford VS Andrey Klimov - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 149
Klimov: 140


March:


Terence Crawford VS Breidis Prescott - Contested at Light Welterweight


Crawford: 150
Prescott: 157




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The following is a list compiled from our main page:

Fight Night Boxing Weights: A List Of Unofficial Weigh-in Weights After Rehydration

Please note: This particular reference list page is reserved only for Lightweight fighting without catch-weights, that we have on file. Where we have seen catch-weights implemented within the division's range, we will try to make note. This page is meant to answer the question only of what your standard Lightweight rehydration will look like for educational purposes, whether you are interested academically or for betting purposes, debate, whatever. I hope you find it helpful if you've recently done a search for it. If you like what we do here, please bookmark, share, link to us, comment, etc. If you have a correction on any typos or special, relevant information you feel we should make note of, any error or anything at all, please feel free to comment. What we get the most response to we will likely work the most to expand on. Thanks for your visit.


Lightweight Division: 135 lbs


2014:

November:

Terence Crawford VS Raymundo Beltran - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 153
Beltran: 147

June:

Terence Crawford VS Yuriorkis Gamboa - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 152
Gamboa: 145



2013:

October:


Terence Crawford VS Andrey Klimov - Contested at Lightweight

Crawford: 149
Klimov: 140

June:

Yuriorkis Gamboa VS Darleys Perez - Contested at Lightweight

Gamboa:  144
Perez: 143

2012:

September:

Antonio DeMarco VS John Molina Junior - Contested at Lightweight

DeMarco: 141
Molina: 148

2011:

April:

Robert Guerrero VS Michael Katsidis - Contested at Lightweight

Guerrero: 146
Katsidis: 145


2010:

November:


Robert Guerrero VS Vicente Escobedo - Contested at Lightweight
Guerrero: 142
Escobedo: 143


Juan Manuel Marquez VS Michael Katsidis - Contested at Lightweight

Marquez: 145
Katsidis:  144

September:

Brandon Rios VS Anthony Peterson - Contested at Lightweight 

Rios: 151
Peterson: 139

July:

July:

Juan Manuel Marquez VS Juan Diaz II - Contested at Lightweight

Marquez: 143
Diaz: 144


2009:

November: 

Ali Funeka VS Joan Guzman - Contested at Lightweight

Funeka: 152
Guzman: 149
 
February:

Juan Manuel Marquez VS Juan Diaz I -  Contested at Lightweight

Marquez: 140
Diaz: 139

2008:

September:


Juan Diaz VS Michael Katsidis - Contested at Lightweight


Diaz: 146
Katsidis: 150

June:

Manny Pacquiao VS David Diaz - Contested at Lightweight

Pacquiao: 147
Diaz: 148

March:


Joel Casamayor VS Michael Katsidis - Contested at Lightweight

Casamayor: 140
Katsidis:  140

2007:

July:

Michael Katsidis VS Czar Amonsot - Contested at Lightweight

Katsidis: 144.5
Amonsot: 146.5



2005:

September:


Erik Morales VS Zahir Raheem
Morales: 148
Raheem: 150

2003: 

November:

Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Phillip Ndou - Contested at Lightweight

Mayweather: 140
Ndou: 147

April:

Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Victoriano Sosa - Contested at Lightweight

Mayweather: 140
Sosa: 145

January:

Joel Casamayor VS Nate Campbell - Contested at Lightweight

Casamayor: 141
Campbell: 135




2002:

December:


Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Jose Luis Castillo (II) - Contested at Lightweight

Mayweather: 138
Castillo: 147

April:

Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Jose Luis Castillo (I) - Contested at Lightweight

Mayweather: 138.5
Castillo: 147.5




2000:


October:

Floyd Mayweather Junior VS Emanuel Burton (Augustus) - Contested at Lightweight

Mayweather: 139
Burton: 140



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Source: Sources for all matches are during the fight broadcast's tale of the tape unless otherwise noted.

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Hard Time Corner Blues: Volume 1: Shadeed Suluki VS Andrey Klimov

There's nothing quite like the intensity of a boxing corner between rounds when the fight is going badly for that side. One of the most negative moments I can remember happened in October of 2013 when a blunt Shadeed Suluki laid a verbal assault on an out-of-his-depth Andrey Klimov as Klimov struggled to find openings or get into his fight with Terence Crawford at all. Suluki spoke to his fighter through a translator (always something I find worrisome with these trainer/fighter teams) and he wanted to make certain this didn't get sugarcoated. 

Shadeed Suluki, the break before round nine of ten:

"Tell him I said he's acting like a f***ing coward."

Shadeed Suluki, the break before round ten of ten:

"Either you go get knocked out or you knock him out, in order to win. Go out fighting. Don't go out like a coward. Tell him exactly what I said."


There's a good reason you will rarely ever hear a trainer imply his fighter is a coward on international television. Probably several good reasons.




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Jamie Kavanagh VS Michael Clark - Clark takes another knockout but gives good resistance

The commentators for the evening were both men who've fairly recently rebounded from cancer scares in triumph, middleweight contender Danny Jacobs and veteran broadcaster Brian Custer. FS1's opening match was a lightweight contest between Irish propsect Jamie Kavanagh and the type of veteran opponent you'd expect to see him against in technically sound but 40-year-old Michael Clark (former opponent of Artur Grigorian, Vivian Harris and Mike Alvarado, among others). Both fighters have trained at Wild Card Gym. Brian Custer says that Kavanagh has sparred a number of times with Manny Pacquiao.

The first round started hot for the typical feel out round. Joel Diaz, Kavanagh's trainer warns him not to telegraph his punches before the second round begins. Kavanagh is mentioned to have recently split with Freddie Roach and picked up with Diaz. He is also mentioned to be fluent in Spanish, having lived in Spain. Both men landed big in the second and third. Round four started seeing some more tying up and blunting of the action but it's not a boo-inducer.

Fifth and final round: Jacobs says if he's noticing correctly, he thinks both fighters appear to be cut. Possible head clash? Mid-round, Kavanagh lands a big left hook after committing to more body work as requested by Diaz. Clark wipes at his eye, Kavanagh appears to land a hard low blow left hook that stops the action. Right now the fight's unraveling with Clark bothered by the cut above the right eye, the low blow, getting tagged with flush power punches by the significantly younger man and toward the end of the round Clark goes down from one of Kavanagh's sneaky lead right hands. Now, pretty much everything is against Clark with the young prospect. He seems perfectly steady upon getting up and he could hang with the young man technically but Clark apparently said that was it and I think it was probably a judicious call, because he was in a hole now and he was very unlikely to climb back out. Like I said, he was in the match but seemed to unravel quickly. 

Summary: Kavanagh really is showing to be a nice TV fighter at this level, if not necessarily a future champion level of prospect. He's tough enough to bring good action and he's got a bit of craft to him. Clark, well, he works hard at a hard living he probably can't take part in for much longer but he's putting in the reasonable effort and didn't do himself any disservice, I don't think. He's still fulfilling the role of the kind of fighter you'd like to see a prospect in against before they take a step up with fresher fighters. Not a bad choice for FS1 on paper or in retrospect. It was good action from both men while it lasted.


Broadcast quote:

Danny Jacobs on Michael Clark:  "I had the pleasure of training with him out in Wild Card boxing gym with Freddie Roach and I seen him spar and I seen him fight. He's an excellent inside fighter so that's the fight that I want to see him fight tonight."




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Petr Petrov VS Fernando Carcamo: One Sided Action Ends The Tournament

Friday Night Fights on ESPN2 finished off its Boxino tournament last night and it was a successful venture that had been full of dramatic ups and downs, hot competition and good knockouts. I have to hand it to the guys for matching up the opponents well. I really enjoyed it but I was surprised by the one-sided action of the main event. Carcamo took a terrible beating by Petrov and for a few rounds I thought he had nothing in his legs and was kept up only by heart and a very generous (depending on how you look at it) corner and referee. I agree with Teddy Atlas that Carcamo just didn't look right throughout this match. I gave him the first round, narrowly, then it was all Petrov smashing his face with left hooks and right uppercuts, in and out, ducking and weaving, battering and ramming, the rest of the way. Carcamo didn't seem to have any snap, any speed, any accuracy.

I was very surprised. I haven't got a clue if it was all Petrov being better or if there was actually something wrong with Carcamo coming into the ring or perhaps if he got hurt early and never recovered. Petrov is a perfect fighter for ESPN and they should have him back as soon as possible. Congratulations to him. Carcamo's corner almost called it (should have, in my opinion) and there were one or two instances in this fight that were perfect examples of why standing 8 counts SHOULD be in effect in ALL professional boxing matches. Referees need to have this call available to them. Phasing it out is madness. I don't understand how this is not a given.



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Ray Mancini On Miguel Vazquez: Quote Spotlight

Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini sat in to commentate for HBO on Miguel Vazquez's world title defense against undefeated contender Denis Shafikov back in February. Vazquez is known as a master spoiler of sorts, nullifying his opponents with constant lateral movement, herky-jerky rhythm and odd-angled shots without much mustard on them. It was interesting to me to see what Ray would say as commentator because Ray, who was also a major world title holder at the exact same weight class was one of the beloved action-fighters of his day, putting on war after war and was a very heavy-handed fighter on top of that. He was one of the sport's top stars for a while and here we've got Vazquez, who has been on perhaps a very undervalued winning streak while holding a major world title for much of that time. He hasn't lost since 2008 and has held his title since 2010.

For a guy with that in his favor, there's not a lot of attention on him. Larry Merchant was also commentating on the match, making it more interesting to me whether or not they'd be critical toward Vazquez's style, as Larry's also got a reputation for bias against spoilers and, really, cautious fighters in general, usually drawing attention to the entertainment values of boxers throughout his career when he commentates. For the majority of the match, I don't think they were hypercritical of Vazquez's performance but I did laugh when Larry was speaking of Vazquez's viability as a TV fighter (which is a valid enough talking point), in the eleventh round of a bloody but not very fan-friendly match and Boom Boom added:

"You're absolutely right, Larry. And, you know, you've heard the term "winning ugly"? You look it up in the dictionary, it's his picture."

This, to me, is one of the more memorable recent quotes when it comes to one era's top names remarking on another. But for the most part Vazquez put in another impressive performance of nullification and having Ray Mancini sit in was a great pleasure. I can't think of a time outside the ring when he didn't come across as being both good-natured and straightforward without reeking of artificiality of any kind. I'd love to get him on another broadcast.



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Andy Vences VS Dominic Coca: Machismo VS Skill

Andy Vences was, for all I could see, pitch-perfect in his match against Dominic Coca- unless you're an ungodly nitpick. It was a tough, game guy with some frustrated bluster against what looked like a beautifully well-schooled boxer, last night. Coca landed maybe only one significant looking right hand to the head but overall he was intercepted with his best shots and blasted with accurate check hooks and jabs, no matter what he tried or how hard he followed or baited Vences to brawl. Coca did the best he could do with what he had and was forced into corner retirement having no success, talk of a damaged left hand and a day job to worry about. He's got nothing to be ashamed about in his performance. He wanted it, he got it, he did what he could with it for his circumstances.

Andy Vences is now on my radar. I was very, very impressed with his excellent performance. I think he's shown himself one to watch. He had the honour of best pure boxing performance on the FS1 card, in my opinion. He may not have the punching power that gets the casuals riles up but what I saw was some very aesthetically pleasing boxing and some very interesting potential, whether it's at Super Featherweight or Lightweight (this was held over the 130 limit). Andy Vences, still undefeated prospect, with a sharp performance and 3rd- round RTD/TKO victory in his TV date. Let's get him back for another card soon, Fox.


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