Broner comes in over the limit at weigh-in, will lose WBO strap on the scales

By Boxing News - 07/20/2012 - Comments

Image: Broner comes in over the limit at weigh-in, will lose WBO strap on the scales(Photo: Hoganphotos) By Scott Gilfoid: WBO super featherweight champion Adrien Broner (23-0, 19 KO’s) came in 3.5 pounds over the 130 pound super featherweight limit on Friday’s weigh-in with challenger Vincente Escobedo, according to Dan Rafael. As such, the 22-year-old Broner will lose his World Boxing Organization title on the scales. The title will still be up for grabs for the 30-year-old Escobedo, though, but Broner won’t have the opportunity to fight for it.

Rafael says “They’re negotiating a max weight for the Saturday weigh-in and money penalty.” I had a feeling that Broner was going to miss the weight, because he already said this was going to be his last fight at super featherweight and he looked painfully thin in the past week, like he was struggling badly to make the weight for the fight.

This doesn’t make much difference to the outcome of the fight. Escobedo is still going to be in WAY over his head against the talented Broner, and will still be lucky if he can make it to the 6th round. Hopefully for Broner’s sake the cash penalty isn’t too severe. That’s the only real issue here, because Broner wasn’t planning on keeping the WBO strap even after he destroyed Escobedo. It was just a trinket that he was going to toss away and then move on to the some bigger and better straps at lightweight.

Escobedo is really up against here. He’s been beaten soundly by Robert Guerrero and Michael Katsidis in the recent past, and now he’s facing a guy that’s arguably better than them in Broner. It’s going to go badly for Escobedo. If he runs he might last until the 8th, but that’s about all I can see from him. Escobedo will not win the fight, that’s not even an option here. It’s only how badly he’ll get beaten.



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