Earlier this week the JBC announced that they had handed out a 1 year suspension to Japanese based American fighter Marcus Smith (6-1-1, 6), following his inability to make weight for a bout in early December.Smith was scheduled to fight on December 9th but, according to the JBC's statement, he came in 3.4KG or 7.5lbs overweight.The JBC described Smith's missing of weight as "This is an act of remarkably deteriorating the authority of boxing as a competition" (Translated).As is normal in Ja [...]
