Hasim Rahman Jr has weighed in at 206.6lb for his cancelled fight with Jake Paul - OVER the new 205lb limit.
The rivals were due to meet at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night but Paul pulled the plug at seven days' notice, claiming Rahman Jr was refusing to weigh less than 215lb. The pair initially agreed to a 200lb weight limit with both men allowed to weigh up to 215lb on the morning of the fight.
Thereafter, he would have been allowed to come in at any weight by the time fight night approached. However due to issues with Rahman Jr's weight cut from the day he signed for the late-notice fight, the New York commission recommended that the fight be moved to 205lb, which Paul agreed to do.
However, Paul's team claim that after Rahman Jr was approached with an amended contract to reflect the weight change his team refused to compete at anything lower than 215lb. Ultimately, the Youtuber-turned-boxer's side were forced to cancel the whole card which also featured world champion Amanda Serrano as a result of the issue.
Rahman reacted angrily to his rival's decision and vowed to prove he would have made the new 205lb limit. He did so when he stepped on the scale at the famous Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn at a little after 4pm local time. Two scales were set up and tested with a 10lb weight to prove they had not been tampered with before Rahman stripped naked and weighed in behind a towel.
Despite signalling he was having difficulties making the weight, Paul's trainer BJ Flores leaked a video of Rahman Jr stepping on the scales at 216lb 30 days before the clash. This meant he would have needed to cut just 11lb to make the required weight limit of 205lb in a month.
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However Rahman Jr has since admitted to tampering with the scales during the video in a bid to make his weight cutting progress look further along. "I want everyone to go watch that video that Jake [Paul] and BJ [Flores] is tweeting," Rahman Jr discussed when hosting a Twitter Spaces on his social media account.
"My coach was standing right next to the scale with a screwdriver. Like I said, you all can read between the lines. Do whatever you got to do to put it together. That's the reality of what it is."
