Will Joan Guzman get down to light welter?

Joan Guzman 30-0-1 (17) plans to continue his career at light welterweight. Guzman beat Ali Funeka last time out in a bout which should have been for the IBF lightweight title (135lb’s) but Guzman weighed in at 144lbs!

With this huge weight discrepancy it must be wondered whether Guzman nowadays has the discipline to even make the light welterweight limit (140lbs).

However his English trainer Lee Beard sees things differently as he told SkySports.com today. “Everything’s fine with Guzman. He should be coming over any week now. His manager is working on a fight now and he’s definitely going to move up in weight.  He was already thinking about moving up after the Funeka fight anyway”

Beard continued on his take over the Funeka rematch where Guzman weighed in so heavily. “He was on schedule, I wrote down where he needed to be, when he needed to lose the weight. He needed to be 10lb off a week before the fight and he was, and I didn’t check his weight on the Monday because (conditioning coach) Kerrry Kayes coming over to Las Vegas on the Tuesday and it turns out he’d put four or five pounds on”

“Guzman only has to look at food and he puts weight on. He has to be very strict on himself and if he had one bad meal or one bad drink then there  was no chance he was going to make it. As far as I am concerned it was on schedule and it doesn’t reflect badly on me. He had been inactive and at his age it’s obviously not coming off him so easily”

There lies the problem for Guzman in this writers opinion. He is now thirty four years of age and has only been in the ring eight times in the last five years. He has probably wasted his prime years mainly outside of the ring and due to this we may never find out just how good Joan Guzman could have been especially with some big fights out there that he could have participated in.

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