Cheating scandal erupts on eve of world title fight

Drama engulfed the weigh-in up of Liam Wilson's WBO super-featherweight rubric shot, with the Queenslander accusing Mexican hostile Emanuel Navarrete's squad of "tampering" with the scales.

Wilson volition combat Navarrete for the vacant WBO super-featherweight rubric successful Glendale, Arizona connected Saturday AEDT.

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Wilson and his team, including promoters No Limit, were near aghast erstwhile the challenger weighed good nether the 130lb (59kg) limit, tipping the scales astatine 126.3 lbs. The favourite Navarrete, meanwhile, was overmuch person to the bounds and came successful astatine 129.2 pounds (58.7kg).

Emanuel Navarrete (L) and Liam Wilson (R) airs during the measurement in. (Top Rank via Getty Images)

The Aussie squad were near bewildered by the effect considering Wilson was heavier erstwhile helium weighed himself connected the aforesaid standard earlier the authoritative proceedings began.

Wilson says the information the Mexican, who has been a champion astatine super-bantamweight and featherweight and is making his debut successful the division, came truthful adjacent to the value bounds means lone 1 happening successful his mind.

"Something happened with the scales," Wilson told Fox Sports.

"I'm definite they've been tampered with.

"I weighed successful connected the scales 20 minutes anterior and I was lone conscionable nether value and I went connected the authoritative weigh-in and I was 4 pounds under, magically.

Emanuel Navarrete (L) and Liam Wilson (R) face-off during the property conference. (Top Rank via Getty Images)

"So successful 20 minutes, I mislaid 4 pounds.

"I deliberation he's travel successful overweight and they've tampered with the scales to marque it look similar helium has made it.

"I haven't been that tiny successful the past 10 years.

"There's nary mode I could suffer 4 pounds successful 20 minutes.

"It's unprofessional. It's a shame to spot him travel present and disrespect the sport."

Wilson,26, is warring for his maiden satellite rubric and goes into the combat arsenic a monolithic underdog, with the Mexican undefeated successful 10 years and signaling 30 knockouts. Wilson is 11-1 arsenic a professional.

"For maine it conscionable shows he's prepared unprofessionally oregon travel successful underdone and I'm going to instrumentality vantage of that and use the unit and interruption him down."

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