While it is common for one of the two boxers to fail to make weight ahead of a title fight, seldom do we see both boxers fail to hit the championship weight.
But that is exactly what happened this afternoon at BoxPark, Wembley, when Adam Azim and Sergey Lipinets took to the scales ahead of their IBO super lightweight title fight on Saturday.
Lipinents, 18-3-1 (13), was first to the scales and he recorded a weight of 10 stone 1 pound. It was then the turn of Azim, 12-0 (9), and he recorded a weight of 10 stone 5 ounces. Both were over the 10-stone limit, in other words, meaning they will now have two hours to shift the excess weight and contest the vacant title on Saturday night.
Meanwhile, in the chief support bout, Callum Simpson and Elvis Ahorgah were both comfortably inside the 12-stone limit ahead of their Commonwealth super middleweight title fight.
Ahorgah, 13-2 (12), weighed 11 stone 12 pounds 5 ounces, while Simpson, the champion, weighed 12 stone. For Simpson, 16-0 (11), this will be his second fight in the space of a fortnight, having stopped Steed Woodall inside two rounds on January 11.