{"id":6799,"date":"2025-07-19T00:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6799\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T00:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T00:44:09","slug":"dangerous-weight-cut-hospitalizes-and-bounces-tijuanas-knockout-king-from-manny-pacquiao-led-fight-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/6799\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dangerous\u2019 weight cut hospitalizes (and bounces) Tijuana\u2019s knockout king from Manny Pacquiao-led fight card"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angel Fierro has been forced to withdraw from his Super Lightweight fight against Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz, which was scheduled to go down this weekend (Sat., July 19, 2025) as one of the featured bouts on the \u201cPacquiao vs. Barrios\u201d event in Las Vegas, Nevada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His trainer, Robert Garcia,<\/a> made the decision to pull Fierro from the much-anticipated rematch as a result of a dangerous weight cut his fighter went through to try and make the 140-pound limit prior to weigh ins (video here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to apologize to all of the fans that made the trip to Vegas, to Pitbull and his team and everyone involved in the fight,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cI made the decision this morning to not allow my fighter, Angel Fierro, to cut anymore weight and instructed our team to take him to the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a responsibility to not only prepare my fighter to fight, but also to keep him safe. The last few pounds were going to be too dangerous for him to cut and I made the decision to pull him out. Again, we apologize to everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

While a tough call, it is undoubtedly the best one to make for Fierro\u2019s health. The two hard-hitting combatants went toe-to-toe in an all-out war earlier this year, which resulted in Fierro defeating \u201cPitbull\u201d via unanimous decision (video highlights here<\/a>). <\/p>\n

Aside from Manny Pacquiao\u2019s highly-anticipated return to face WBC Welterweight champion, Mario Barrios, on Prime Video pay-per-view (PPV)<\/a> in the main event, the card will also feature Sebastian Fundora defending his WBC Super Welterweight title against Tim Tszyu.<\/p>\n

For more boxing news and notes click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Angel Fierro has been forced to withdraw from his Super Lightweight fight against Isaac \u201cPitbull\u201d Cruz, which was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[1203,7498,703,49,48,2323,2185,7496,7495,1138,3011,700,7497,5837,1153,701,7502,7500,2184,7501,694,2186,82,7499,4554],"class_list":["post-6799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-and","tag-bounces","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-card","tag-com","tag-cut","tag-dangerous","tag-fight","tag-from","tag-front-page","tag-hospitalizes","tag-king","tag-knockout","tag-latest-news","tag-led","tag-manny","tag-mmamania","tag-pacquiao","tag-s","tag-sb-nation-commerce","tag-sports","tag-tijuana","tag-weight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}