Photo: Tom Casino/Showtime – By Chris Williams: Former light heavyweight champion Antonio Tarver 27-6, 19 KO’s) looks like a mini blimp at 221 pounds for his fight on Friday night against Nagy Aguilera (16-4, 11 KO’s), in a bout that will be taking place at the Buffalo Run Casino, in Miami, Oklahoma. Tarver, 41, has made up his mind that he wants to fight at heavyweight and has ballooned up in weight 46 pound from his last weight of 175, which he fought at for his loss to Chad Dawson a year ago in May.

Tarver seems to think he has what it takes to beat the Klitschko brothers, but first he’s planning on taking on some lower level fighters to prove to boxing fans that he has what it takes to beat the world champion Klitschkos. In looking at how fat Tarver is, it doesn’t look like he’s done any training at unless you count shoveling rich food in his mouth.

Tarver says that 225 is his walking around weight when he’s not fighting. In that case, it looks like he’s lost four of those pounds and has come into Fridays’ fight looking really fat. In just looking at Tarver in the Photos, I would guess that he’s carrying around 30 to 40+ pounds of blubber.

If you were to strip that useless flab off his frame, I bet you’d end up with Tarver weighing 175. This guy is really kidding himself if he thinks he can fight at heavyweight. It hurts my eyes just to look at how fat Tarver has become. I want to put him on a salmon and low carb diet just looking at him. Adding 46 pound of lard is going to make Tarver any more powerful than he was at light heavyweight.

He might as well have come into the fight weighing 175, because he at least would have the speed to possibly out-maneuver Aguilera and maybe beat him by a decision. But in looking at how fat Tarver is, I don’t see how he can do that. Tarver is wasting his time. He needs to forget about heavyweight and take that weight off just for the sake of his own health.

He’s going to end up with something serious like diabetes are heart disease if he keeps carrying all that blubber. At first I thought he would beat this Aguilera guy, but now I’m not so certain. He’s probably no more powerful than he was at light heavyweight, but he’s going to be much slower because of all the fat on his carcass. If he can’t beat this dude, then he needs to retire because Aguilera was destroyed by Samuel Peter an even beaten by Maurice Harris.