Photos: Courtesy Red Line Media Group – By Nate Anderson: In looking at the recent photos of super middleweight Edison Miranda (30-2, 26 KOs), photos of him looking far more leaner and cutup than usual, I can’t help but think that he’s either over-trained himself for his rematch with IBF middleweight champion Arthur Abraham (26-0, 21 KOs) this Saturday at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, in Hollywood, Florida, or Miranda has depleted himself of water in order to make the catch-weight limit of 166 lbs. Whatever the case, I don’t think he looks good at all. He looks far too think for him, like he’s lost too much weight and it’s also had the effect of making him look older, as if he’s aged visibly in the matter of months.
I know that he’s said to walk around at 190+ pounds in between fights, with most of it in the way of muscle rather than fat. This would seem to indicate that Miranda likely had to strip off a considerable amount of muscle – or water – in order to make the weight limit of 166, which seems to have given him the lean, over-trained and muscle starved look in the recent photos of him. It certainly looks good for a person that would want to enter a bathing suit contest or perhaps an amateur bodybuilding contest, but as far as boxing goes, he looks much too thin for him.