Sentence examples for make the weight from inspiring English sources

For a fighter with his history of struggling to make the weight this is remarkable.

"I was a million to one to make the weight," Mr. Newman said with a laugh.

The rules are simple and stark: if we don't make the weight, we don't compete.

Dark, slim, vivid, un-aged, he looks as if he could still make the weight.

Tyson was nonchalant about the fight but he was determined to make the weight.

You don't make the weight, you don't get in the ring".

When he had to leave Beijing because he couldn't make the weight, not everyone was unhappy about it.

Fretting will make the weight fall off in a way that "not quite getting around to jogging" never could.

"At the moment we have someone who is representing his country and did not make the weight.

A proposed third match last June to settle the rubber never materialised, after Castillo again failed to make the weight.

It's part of a major tournament that some boxers will struggle to make the weight before they fight; fortunately I had no such issues.