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Old 09-02-2019, 01:48 AM   #16
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Not sure the exact weight he was trying for at the time of the accident, but I'm guessing not much was done then nor has been done since to raise the weight requirements. Makes no sense to me that even to this day jocks have to struggle to make 120 et al. So maybe they run like 00:00:20 slower if the starting weight is like 130 in a nondescript 6f OC40k/NW2x. Maybe. Who really cares???

Think there are spots were the Euros carry 132-136 at times.
Actually, in Heller's book, he was not going in there to lose weight. It was just a stressful day or something and he had some time to kill, I bleieve that is the way Romero told it.
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