Ray Beltran misses weight, cannot win Richard Commey’s title
Ray Beltran is not going to have an opportunity to turn into a two-time light-weight world titleholder, a minimum of not on Friday night time.
As a result of problem Richard Commey for his 135-pound world title, Beltran badly missed weight at Thursday’s weigh-in, coming in at 136.Eight kilos. He had two hours to lose the additional 1.Eight kilos however by no means returned to the size. Commey was contained in the restrict at 134.four kilos for his first title protection.
No matter the results of the battle, Commey will retain the title, per IBF guidelines, so long as he’s no heavier than 145 kilos on the Friday morning weight test mandated by the sanctioning physique.
Beltran, though now not topic to the IBF’s fight-morning weight test as a result of he’s now not eligible to win the title, agreed to a 7 a.m. weight test at which he may be no heavier than 146.Eight kilos for the battle, which is able to headline the Prime Rank Boxing on ESPN card (ESPN and ESPN Deportes, 10 p.m. ET with the complete card streaming on ESPN+ starting at 7:30 p.m. ET) on the Pechanga Resort On line casino in Temecula, California.
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Beneath the foundations of the California State Athletic Fee, Beltran might be fined $40,000 — 20 p.c of his $200,000 purse — with $20,000 going to the fee and $20,000 being added to Commey’s purse of $350,000.
Beltran (36-Eight-1, 22 KOs), who turned 38 on Sunday, was looking for to win a world title for the second time after having received a vacant belt in his fourth try by hard-fought resolution over Paulus Moses in February 2018. Beltran, a Mexico native who lives in Phoenix, misplaced the title in his first protection by unanimous resolution to Jose Pedraza in August however rebounded in a robust efficiency in February when he knocked out unbeaten Hiroki Okada within the ninth spherical.
Nonetheless, the battle with Okada was within the junior welterweight division and Steve Feder, Beltran’s supervisor, mentioned coming down from 140 kilos to 135 for the battle with Commey was a battle.
“We did every thing we usually have finished up to now. As much as two weeks in the past he was proper the place we might anticipate, however over the previous seven days we seen that his physique wasn’t reacting to the load slicing because it has up to now,” Feder mentioned. “We adjusted issues on Saturday however every day we weren’t getting the motion we wished. He had an ideal camp and labored extremely arduous all 9 weeks and particularly this final week specializing in the load.
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“For no matter motive, maybe the age at this level, which may have an effect on the best way you metabolize, could have been an element. No excuses from Group Beltran. After this 140 appears to be like like the load.”
Commey (28-2, 25 KOs), 32, of Ghana, received a vacant world title by second-round knockout of Isa Chaniev on Feb. 2 in a battle throughout which he suffered a proper hand damage that scuttled a title unification bout with pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko in April.
“So far as Group Commey are involved our foremost precedence is Richard making the 145-pound IBF weight restrict [Friday] morning at 7 a.m. Because the world champion, Richard understands what it means to be skilled in these circumstances,” Michael Amoo-Bediako, Commey’s supervisor, mentioned. “It’s not his or our place to talk on how different fighters make weight however we hope Beltran makes the load allowed [Friday] morning in order that we’ve got a battle and Richard can present the American public that he is not on this division to make up the numbers, however present everybody that he’s able to realizing his dream of being the undisputed light-weight champion of the world.”
Co-feature fighters Carlos Adames (17-Zero, 14 KOs), 25, of the Dominican Republic, and Patrick Day (17-2-1, 6 KOs), 26, of Freeport, New York, each made weight for his or her 10-round junior middleweight bout. Adames was on the division restrict of 154 kilos and Day was 153.Eight.