"This is the opportunity of your lifetime, this is everything to this kid and his family, and I'm greatly disappointed. I've been public about this situation with other fighters and talked about their unprofessionalism, and I'm not going to change my tune because he's my fighter. "I'm greatly disappointed and I'm really annoyed," DiBella said. There also were ongoing discussions between the camps about Rodriguez (24-0, 16 KOs) making an additional payment to Ward (26-0, 13 KOs) to go through with the fight, but there was no resolution as of Friday night.ĭiBella, a vocal critic of fighters who fail to make weight, did not hold back on his own fighter. And if he weighs more than 180? "It's at his peril," DiBella said. PT on Saturday and cannot be heavier than 180 pounds. Of the $200,000 fine, half will go to the commission and the remaining $100,000 will be given to Ward, boosting his purse from $1.9 million to $2 million.Īs part of a deal made with the Ward camp, Rodriguez is required to reweigh at 9 a.m. He couldn't even spit."įor missing weight, the commission fined Rodriguez 20 percent of his career-high $1 million purse. "I think there's a chance Edwin might not be able to make this weight again," Lou DiBella, Rodriguez's promoter, told ESPN. He had nothing left to lose, and he never went back to the scale to weigh in again. "I'm gonna work on it."īut Rodriguez was depleted. I feel pretty good," Rodriguez said while still at the scale after being overweight. Under California State Athletic Commission rules, Rodriguez had two hours to try to shed the extra two pounds. If Ward, returning from a 14-month lay-off because of surgery for a right shoulder tear, loses the fight, he still will retain the title. Rodriguez is due to fight Ward on Saturday night at the Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California, but Rodriguez is no longer eligible to win the championship after weighing in at 170 lbs, two more than the division limit. Super middleweight contender Edwin Rodriguez missed weight by two pounds at Friday's weigh-in, costing him a chance to win the world title against champion Andre Ward.
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