“Because then you’re doing three weight divisions,” Sims adds. “Bearing in mind, he [Benn] weighed 156 for the fight, so he’s not even nowhere near 160, let alone 168. So to make the fight, there’s got to be concessions from both sides. And the way I looked at it is Chris made 160 for his last five fights and there wasn’t any talk about that, really. He only boxed a few months before the Conor Benn fight and made 160 in Saudi. No one said anything. So, you know, I believe he could have made 160 for this fight. He weighed a little bit over, but he turned up to the weigh-in like with 10 minutes to go, you know what I mean? So, he turned up really late. I believe he could have made that, but listen, it is what it is. Conor Benn can’t move up a third weight to 168 so there’s got to be a realistic weight that Chris has to make, which is his natural weight; 160. And Conor’s probably natural weight for this fight is like between 154 and 156.”
