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06-20-2015, 02:14 PM
Shawn Porter 'easily' makes weight ahead of Adrien Broner bout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWCwHIZRtlI
LAS VEGAS -- Turns out former welterweight titleholder Shawn Porter wasn't kidding when he said he would have no problem making the 144-pound contract limit for his fight with former three-division titlist Adrien Broner.
Broner, despite being a former welterweight titleholder himself (although his last three fights were at junior welterweight), insisted the fight be at 144 pounds, which Porter grudgingly accepted.
Despite all the speculation that he might not make weight, Porter was bang on 144 and looked strong at Friday's weigh-in, attended by card promoter Floyd Mayweather, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena ahead of the scheduled 12-round bout Saturday night (NBC, 8:30 ET). Broner (30-1, 22 KOs) was 143½ pounds.
"I made weight and I could have made weight last week," Shawn Porter said. "I laugh at the fact that I made it so easily and hadn't been 144 for so long." Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Kenny Porter, Shawn's father and trainer, told ESPN.com that the rehydration clause Broner had asked for -- meaning neither could weigh more than 154 pounds at a Saturday morning weight check -- had been deleted from the bout agreement.
Asked what happened to the contract clause, one Team Porter was unhappy about, he said, "Al shut that down," referring to Al Haymon, the adviser for both Broner and Porter.
"I made weight and I could have made weight last week," Shawn Porter said. "I laugh at the fact that I made it so easily and hadn't been 144 for so long."
The 27-year-old Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs) said the last time he was that light was when he was a 14-year-old amateur.
Kenny Porter said his son made the weight slow and smart. Shawn Porter usually does not run the week of a fight, and Kenny Porter said he didn't have to make an exception for this bout because he was fine coming down.
"He hasn't run the week of a fight in years. The point is he didn't have to for this one," Kenny Porter said.
Welterweight Errol Spence (16-0, 13 KOs), the 2012 U.S. Olympian and elite prospect, and Phil Lo Greco (26-1, 14 KOs), who took the fight Thursday when Roberto Garcia, mired in personal and weight problems, withdrew, both made weight.
Spence was 149 and Lo Greco was 152, the maximum weight, which had been increased to take into account his last-minute acceptance of the fight.
Fortunately for fight organizers, Lo Greco was in shape because he has been in Las Vegas working in junior welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas' camp helping Vargas prepare for his move up to welterweight to face former titlist Timothy Bradley Jr. on June 27.
Also Friday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission released the purses for the combatants per their signed bout agreements. Broner will earn $1.35 million, Porter will make $1 million, and Spence and Lo Greco will be paid $150,000 apiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWCwHIZRtlI
LAS VEGAS -- Turns out former welterweight titleholder Shawn Porter wasn't kidding when he said he would have no problem making the 144-pound contract limit for his fight with former three-division titlist Adrien Broner.
Broner, despite being a former welterweight titleholder himself (although his last three fights were at junior welterweight), insisted the fight be at 144 pounds, which Porter grudgingly accepted.
Despite all the speculation that he might not make weight, Porter was bang on 144 and looked strong at Friday's weigh-in, attended by card promoter Floyd Mayweather, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena ahead of the scheduled 12-round bout Saturday night (NBC, 8:30 ET). Broner (30-1, 22 KOs) was 143½ pounds.
"I made weight and I could have made weight last week," Shawn Porter said. "I laugh at the fact that I made it so easily and hadn't been 144 for so long." Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Kenny Porter, Shawn's father and trainer, told ESPN.com that the rehydration clause Broner had asked for -- meaning neither could weigh more than 154 pounds at a Saturday morning weight check -- had been deleted from the bout agreement.
Asked what happened to the contract clause, one Team Porter was unhappy about, he said, "Al shut that down," referring to Al Haymon, the adviser for both Broner and Porter.
"I made weight and I could have made weight last week," Shawn Porter said. "I laugh at the fact that I made it so easily and hadn't been 144 for so long."
The 27-year-old Porter (25-1-1, 16 KOs) said the last time he was that light was when he was a 14-year-old amateur.
Kenny Porter said his son made the weight slow and smart. Shawn Porter usually does not run the week of a fight, and Kenny Porter said he didn't have to make an exception for this bout because he was fine coming down.
"He hasn't run the week of a fight in years. The point is he didn't have to for this one," Kenny Porter said.
Welterweight Errol Spence (16-0, 13 KOs), the 2012 U.S. Olympian and elite prospect, and Phil Lo Greco (26-1, 14 KOs), who took the fight Thursday when Roberto Garcia, mired in personal and weight problems, withdrew, both made weight.
Spence was 149 and Lo Greco was 152, the maximum weight, which had been increased to take into account his last-minute acceptance of the fight.
Fortunately for fight organizers, Lo Greco was in shape because he has been in Las Vegas working in junior welterweight titleholder Jessie Vargas' camp helping Vargas prepare for his move up to welterweight to face former titlist Timothy Bradley Jr. on June 27.
Also Friday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission released the purses for the combatants per their signed bout agreements. Broner will earn $1.35 million, Porter will make $1 million, and Spence and Lo Greco will be paid $150,000 apiece.