By Dan Ambrose: With the weigh-in limit being a mystery for Friday’s weigh-in for Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. and Brian Vera, Ronnie Shields, the trainer for Vera, wants some kind of re-hydration limit to keep Chavez Jr. from ballooning up in weight for Saturday’s fight on HBO between Chavez Jr. and Vera, according to Steve Kim at Maxboxing.com.
Ronnie does not want Vera to get hurt by facing someone that could end up having a tremendous weight advantage over him in this fight.
As it is the weight for the weight is still an unknown at this point. It’s going to be at whatever weight that Chavez Jr. comes in at. That kind of shows you the power imbalance in this fight, because in a lot of cases a fight would fall through if a fighter failed to make weight, but not in this case.
This was a fight that originally was scheduled for 162, and then it was moved up to 163, 168 and then 173. Now it’s pretty much whatever Chavez Jr. comes in at.
As I was saying, Shields want a rehydration limit to keep Chavez Jr. from really ballooning up in weight after he rehydrates. It’s going to be interesting to see if Vera’s promoter Artie Pelullo will be able to get Chavez Jr’s promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank to agree to that. I doubt that’s going to happen.
Shields said to Steve Kim at Maxboxing.com “I care about Brian Vera the fighter, the person. They don’t give a f*** about Brian Vera, but I do. And this is about Brian’s health. Now, they don’t care because it’s all about money for them, but Brian is going to have to live to fight another day.”
I agree with Shields. It’s not worth it if Vera is going to have to take a beating from someone that could potentially outweigh him by as much as 15-25 pounds.
Vera takes a beating in this fight it could shorten his career. Having a cruiserweight-sized Chavez Jr. hitting Vera with shots is hardly fair.
Vera’s promoter needs to push hard to get some kind of re-hydration limit in effect to keep Chavez Jr. ballooning up to 200 lbs. after he rehydrates for this fight. With their not even being a weight limit for this fight, Chavez Jr. can pretty much come in at whatever he wants to.
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