He couldn’t make that weight either.
Dan Rafael reported Saturday that Hilley failed to hit the revised limit, prompting organizers to scrap the bout entirely. His exact weight was not immediately known.
The two weight misses created the immediate mess, but Mercado’s matchmaking deserves closer examination.
Why was a 24-year-old talent of Mercado’s caliber being put in with the 37-year-old Tagoe in the first place?
Ryan Garcia thoroughly outboxed Tagoe in a lopsided 12-round unanimous decision in April 2022. Tagoe has fought only twice since and had been inactive for a year, with his previous bout coming in A
