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John Molina Jr. Anthony Miller Jersey . did not come close to making weight for his junior welterweight world title shot against unified champion Terence Crawford on Friday, and while the fight is still on, Molina cannot win the belts.Though Crawford was inside the 140-pound weight limit, weighing in at 139.6 pounds, Molina was dramatically overweight.He was 144 pounds and, given two hours to lose the excess four pounds, he returned to the scale and was 143.4 for the fight on Saturday (HBO, 9:35 p.m. ET/PT) at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Crawfords hometown.Crawford cannot lose the belts even if he loses the fight. Molina agreed to give up an undisclosed five-figure payment of his $400,000 purse to Crawford, who will add it to his $1.5 million purse, to go through with the fight.We are disappointed Molina didnt make weight, Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti told ESPN. Im glad for everyone involved that we were able to get (the side deal) done. This was very unexpected. Molina looked and acted fine all week, but even salt looks like sugar.Top Rank did not have any notion Molina was heavy until Friday morning, which is when Molina promoter Tom Brown of TGB Promotions called Moretti to inform him that Molina probably would not make weight.Ive never been overweight before, Molina said. I tried my best to get it off in the two-hour limit, but I couldnt.Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs), 29, unified titles with a one-sided decision win against Viktor Postol on July 23 in a career-best performance and will be making his fourth defense against Molina.Molina (29-6, 23 KOs), 33, of Covina, California, a big underdog, is coming off a significant victory against former junior welterweight world titleholder Ruslan Provodnikov on June 11, a fight for which Molina did make weight.Lightweights Raymundo Beltran (31-7-1, 19 KOs), 35, a Mexico native based in Phoenix, and Mason Menard (32-1, 24 KOs), 28, of Rayne, Louisiana, both weighed in inside the 135-pound limit for their scheduled 10-round co-feature. Beltran weighed 133.8 pounds and Menard was 134.2. Bob Parsons Jersey . Belfort (24-10) needed just 77 seconds to down Henderson in the headlining bout of Saturdays "UFC Fight Night: Belfort vs. Henderson" event at Goiania Arena in Goiania, Brazil. The fight served as a rematch of the pairs 2006 meeting, which Henderson won by decision. David Montgomery Jersey Large . Howard Ganz, an MLB lawyer, said in a letter to U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that Rodriguezs claims do not come "remotely close" to what is needed to overturn an arbitration decision in federal court. http:///...sey-large-1756t.html . -- Brandon Jennings made the most of his first game with the Detroit Pistons on Sunday night. The stage is set in Toronto, Canada. The fans have converged on the Air Canada Center and the famous arena is decked out in League of Legends garb. At last, the two finalists, Team SoloMid and Cloud9, are ready to play for the North American League Championship Series (NA LCS) championship. Nine weeks of regular-season play and two playoff weekends have led us to this moment.Historically, TSM has bested C9 twice in the NA LCS Finals before, and C9 in turn has taken two finals against TSM as well. Sundays final in front of the electric Canadian crowd will be the tiebreak in the three year rivalry between the two most successful teams in NA LCS history.Before they open the curtains, however, the arena must be reset after a third-place match that will be remembered as one of the longest best-of-fives in League of Legends history. In a five-match classic, Immortals repeated its successful bid for third place from the spring with a gutsy 3-2 victory over back-to-back domestic champion Counter Logic Gaming.After the marathon best-of-five, all eyes have turned to TSM and C9. ESPN sat down with two of the biggest superstars in the NA LCS, Immortals Kim Reignover Yeu-jin and CLGs Zaqueri Aphromoo Black, to hear who they thought would exit Toronto Sunday as the new kings of North America.I thought TSM was going to win, but recently weve been practicing [against] both teams, said Reignover. And both teams are really good, but I think C9 seems really strong, so I think itll [go to a] fifth game. I think C9 is goiing to win. Eddy Pineiro Jersey. I think its going to go 3-2 TSM, stated Aphromoo, agreeing with Reignovers five-game prediction but not the projected winner. We didnt really get to scrim TSM that much before we played them, so obviously I thought C9 was pretty damn good, and even after I played them I thought C9 was a little better. But TSM has picked it up the last week when weve been scrimming them and stuff like that, so theyre just on top of their game. I really hope it goes five games because I think both teams definitely have [been pushing] the envelope a lot, especially with [Head Coach Bok Reapered Han-gyu] coming in for C9 and TSM having [coach Weldon Green] full-time this split, too. So both of those teams are definitely looking good.An added extra wrinkle to the finals is how it affects fourth-place team CLGs eligibility for the World Championship for a second straight year. If TSM were to win the finals, CLG would automatically qualify for Worlds and avoid the gauntlet-style tournament that is the NA Regional Qualifiers next week; however, if Cloud9 is able to pull off the upset, it would grab CLGs assured spot to Worlds. Then CLG would most likely need to face Immortals again in the Regionals to qualify.We asked if Aphromoo had any words of encouragement hed like to offer TSM before Sundays final.Good luck, TSM, he said. If [you] win, thank you. If not, thank you again.
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