Friday 21 October 2016 16:30, UK
Sam Eggington has promised to make Frankie Gavin pay for failing to make the weight, calling his local rival "disgraceful".
The local rivals both weighed in ahead of their WBC International welterweight title fight on Saturday, live on Sky Sports 2, with Gavin unable to come inside the 10st 7lbs limit.
The former world title challenger tipped the scales at 10st 9lbs 4oz and Eggington (10st 6lbs 5oz) was far from happy even though their Birmingham derby will still go ahead.
"It's disgraceful," he told Sky Sports.
"He's meant to be a professional and everyone keeps talking about his amateur background and this pedigree or that pedigree but he can't even make a weight - even for a big title fight in his home town.
"If I wanted to, I could have called this fight off happily and still got a pay cheque. It's disgraceful, that's all I can really say."
Gavin had got on the scales naked and was screened as he tried to get inside the limit and then departed the venue, leaving Eggington to do the final interviews before Saturday night's showdown.
'The Savage' revealed his gym-mates were "110%" sure his Birmingham rival would not be able to come inside the limit but was in no laughing mood as he fired a final warning to 'Funtime'.
"I am going to batter him for that [failing to make weight]," he said.
"So not only when I beat him up to win the title, I am also going to make it even worse for him just because he didn't make the weight."
Watch Frankie Gavin v Sam Eggington, live on Sky Sports 2, from 8pm on Saturday.
