Shawn Porter misses weight, gets a haircut to make limit
Welterweight champion Shawn Porter missed weight by nearly two pounds Friday and was given until approximately 3:30 p.m. Pacific time to trim the weight or lose his World Boxing Council belt on the scale.
Porter (29-2-1, 17 knockouts) weighed in at 148.8 pounds for his Fox-televised welterweight title defense Saturday against Cuba’s Yordenis Ugas (23-3, 11 KOs), who met the 147-pound limit by weighing in at 146.6 pounds.
The champion responded to missing weight by sweating to reduce some weight. When that wasn’t enough, he desperately resorted to a haircut, saving his first title defense by weighing in just two-tenths of a pound under the 147-pound limit.
Ugas, riding an eight-fight winning streak, is more than a 2-to-1 underdog at the Westgate Superbook in Las Vegas to upset Porter, who won the belt left vacant by then-injured Keith Thurman in September with a victory over former two-division champion Danny Garcia in New York.
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