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Take Me Out to the Ball Game
Basically the story is the commissioner wanted to get to the Cubs game in time so she didn't give Romero the full two hours.
LowKickMMA Exclusive
Yoel Romero went through one of the most disturbing weight cuts in recent mixed martial arts (MMA) memory back in June of last year.
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Dan Lambert detailed how Romero’s second attempt at making weight went down. “The Soldier Of God” rested a bit before jumping into a bath to resume his weight cut. However, just five minutes into his bath, the commissioner ordered Romero back downstairs to weigh-in, leaving about an hour and a half of his given time on the table. The commissioner threatened if Romero didn’t come down to weigh-in, he wouldn’t be fighting.
“It was one of the biggest crocks of sh*t I’ve ever seen in this business,” Lambert said. “Yoel went to the weigh-ins and he was a pound over. They give you two hours to make weight. . .
"Five minutes into the bath the commission doctor got on the phone and said, ‘Oh, the head commissioner says to be down here in five minutes or he’s not going to fight.’
"We go, ‘What do you mean? We have like an hour and a half left?’
"They go, ‘Nope, she says he has to be there right now.’
"‘What do you mean he has to be there right now?’
"‘She says he has to be there right now.’
“And he had to get out of the bath, he had no time to extend his bath time, he had no time to sit under the sheets from the bath. Got up, walked downstairs, and what did he miss it by, a pound and a half or something? It was ridiculous! It wasn’t because the doctors said he could no longer continue.
"Then later, someone told me they saw the commissioner at the Cubs game that afternoon.
“They gave no explanation whatsoever as to why he wasn’t given the time he was supposed to be given to make the weight. And then they just said it was her decision, and then she’s at a Cubs game, so you do the math.”
https://www.lowkickmma.com/dan-lambert-yoel-romero-weight-cut-stopped-cubs-game/
Acting Commissioner
NANCY ILLG
[email protected]
(312) 793-6605
Basically the story is the commissioner wanted to get to the Cubs game in time so she didn't give Romero the full two hours.
LowKickMMA Exclusive
Yoel Romero went through one of the most disturbing weight cuts in recent mixed martial arts (MMA) memory back in June of last year.
. . .
Dan Lambert detailed how Romero’s second attempt at making weight went down. “The Soldier Of God” rested a bit before jumping into a bath to resume his weight cut. However, just five minutes into his bath, the commissioner ordered Romero back downstairs to weigh-in, leaving about an hour and a half of his given time on the table. The commissioner threatened if Romero didn’t come down to weigh-in, he wouldn’t be fighting.
“It was one of the biggest crocks of sh*t I’ve ever seen in this business,” Lambert said. “Yoel went to the weigh-ins and he was a pound over. They give you two hours to make weight. . .
"Five minutes into the bath the commission doctor got on the phone and said, ‘Oh, the head commissioner says to be down here in five minutes or he’s not going to fight.’
"We go, ‘What do you mean? We have like an hour and a half left?’
"They go, ‘Nope, she says he has to be there right now.’
"‘What do you mean he has to be there right now?’
"‘She says he has to be there right now.’
“And he had to get out of the bath, he had no time to extend his bath time, he had no time to sit under the sheets from the bath. Got up, walked downstairs, and what did he miss it by, a pound and a half or something? It was ridiculous! It wasn’t because the doctors said he could no longer continue.
"Then later, someone told me they saw the commissioner at the Cubs game that afternoon.
“They gave no explanation whatsoever as to why he wasn’t given the time he was supposed to be given to make the weight. And then they just said it was her decision, and then she’s at a Cubs game, so you do the math.”
https://www.lowkickmma.com/dan-lambert-yoel-romero-weight-cut-stopped-cubs-game/
Acting Commissioner
NANCY ILLG
[email protected]
(312) 793-6605
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