Cecilia Braekhus 147 vs Klara Svensson 145
(WBC/WBO/WBA/IBF/IBO welterweight championship)

by fightnews.com

Promoter: First Lady Promotion
Venue: The Spectrum, Oslo, Norway

Braekhus refused to participate in the public weigh-in for her unified WBC/WBO/WBA/IBF/IBO welterweight championship bout against Svensson. While Svensson weighed in at 65.8 kg (145 lbs.) in front of dozens of photographers, multiple TV teams and 100 fans in Oslo, Norway, local hero Braekhus – who is promoting the event with her “First Lady Promotion” – asked to touch the scale in her private dressing room.

Obviously, Cecilia thought that she couldn’t make the weight after being over the limit on a wrongly calibrated test scale. When she finally weighed in on the official scale in her dressing room she was perfectly fine at 66.6 kg (147 lbs.).

“The Swedish Princess” Klara Svensson had already left the venue at that time after weighting 30 minutes for Cecilia to show up on the stage.

The Norwegian media had to wait almost two hours to see Braekhus who came out after her official weigh-in procedure. Despite the long delay, the “First Lady” was welcomed with a warm round of applause and had to give plenty of interviews to explain the strange situation.

Braekhus vs. Svensson is the main event of a big show in front of an expected capacity crowd of 10,000 fans at “The Spectrum” in Oslo. “The Nordic Rumble” will be broadcasted live on Pay-Per-View on Viasat and is expected to generate a revenue of more than 1,000,000.- US$.