The key, according to Casimero’s head trainer Nonoy Neri, is to work the crafty Cuban’s body the entire fight. The 31-year-old Casimero tipped the scales exactly at the bantamweight limit of 118 pounds while Rigondeaux registered half a pound below the maximum. The Filipino slugger was seen immediately chugging a bottle of Gatorade, a sign that he had to work hard to make weight. Casimero earlier vowed to make Rigondeaux, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-division world champion, his seventh straight knockout victim“Eight letters, two words: Easy work,” Casimero bragged. “Whatever was said between Casimero and me up to this point is water under the bridge,” he later said on Twitter.

Source: Philippine Star August 14, 2021 03:45 UTC