Top junior welterweight contender “Relentless” Antonio Orozco’s weight struggles have twice spectacularly forced high-profile televised fights to be canceled. In December 2016, before an HBO Latino fight against Fidel Maldonado Jr., Orozco passed out due to dehydration and was hospitalized. Then last September, Orozco was said to be seven pounds overweight for an HBO fight against Roberto “Massa” Ortiz and failed to report to the scale at all.
He did make 140 for a March fight against Martin Honario, and now he has a title shot against WBO super lightweight champion Jose Ramirez on Friday at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California.
“Earlier in the year, I left for Guadalajara, Mexico, and I just have a different view of things,” said Orozco. “I met a nutritionist down there and made 140 in March. I’m on the same regimen. What happened before, there are things that people don’t know.
“Besides the point, I’m over that. It’s done and over with. But, hey, I’m not worried about it. I got bigger things to worry about, and that’s what my focus is on. I’ve had my downs and I’ve had my ups, and this is an opportunity I’m not going to let go.”