Joan Guzman failed to make weight yesterday for tonight's scheduled lightweight title fight with Nate Campbell, and after Guzman got sick in a last-ditch effort to dehydrate himself for the weigh-in, the fight has been called off,
FightHype is reporting.
Guzman weighed in at 138.5 pounds, an astonishing 3.5 pounds over the lightweight limit, made all the more shocking by the fact that Guzman had actually moved up in weight class to take the fight against Campbell, who is the WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight champ.
Pulling out of a fight at the last minute like this ought to result in Guzman facing severe discipline from the Mississippi boxing commission. It's not clear where Campbell will go from here; the best-case scenario for boxing fans would be fore Campbell to fight the winner of the other lightweight title fight tonight, Joel Casamayor vs. Juan Manuel Marquez.
We're live blogging that fight here.
