Brandon Rios overcomes missing weight in quick order

Brandon Rios has experienced harrowing incidents of missing weight. Friday’s incident left him annoyed, but at least he solved the problem in short order.

Nearly 40 minutes after missing weight by 0.2 pounds for his World Boxing Organization welterweight title shot against Cathedral City’s Timothy Bradley Jr., Oxnard’s Rios returned to the scale and weighed the welterweight limit 147 pounds precisely.

“We have a fight!” promoter Bob Arum exclaimed.

Rios (33-2-1, 23 knockouts) previously vacated his World Boxing Assn. lightweight belt in 2011 in New York when he missed weight before defeating John Murray by 11th-round technical knockout.

He complained recently of being forced to stay at 135 pounds by his promoter, and again missed the limit by more than two pounds before defeating Richard Abril by split decision in Las Vegas.

In this case, Rios said he was in the process of going to the restroom when he was ordered to get to the scale. He said he thought he’d make the limit, but didn’t while Bradley weighed 146 pounds.

Rios returned to make weight and minimized the turbulence.

“What drama?” he said. “There ain’t no drama. I was [using the restroom] when they said, ‘You’ve gotta weigh in in five minutes,’ so I’m like … .”

When a reporter told Rios he looked “a little drawn in the face,” he derided the reporter and left the weigh-in stage, presumably to go re-nourish before Saturday night’s HBO-televised bout at Thomas and Mack Center.

Rios’ manager, Cameron Dunkin, emphasized the importance of the bout.

“He’s just going to funnel everything he’s got into every round,” Dunkin said. “I don’t see him taking a second off. Not at all. And if he does, he knows … it’s going to be bad.

“He becomes another guy. He’ll be an opponent for $300,000. I’d rather him hang it up and do something else than do that. He knows what he has to do. He knows how to win this fight.”