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John Molina Jr. did not come close to making weight for his junior welterweight world title shot against unified champion Terence Crawford on Friday, and while the fight is still on, Molina cannot win the belts.Though Crawford was inside the 140-pound weight limit, weighing in at 139.6 pounds, Molina was dramatically overweight.He was 144 pounds and, given two hours to lose the excess four pounds, he returned to the scale and was 143.4 for the fight on Saturday (HBO, 9:35 p.m. ET/PT) at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, Nebraska, Crawfords hometown.Crawford cannot lose the belts even if he loses the fight. Molina agreed to give up an undisclosed five-figure payment of his $400,000 purse to Crawford, who will add it to his $1.5 million purse, to go through with the fight.We are disappointed Molina didnt make weight, Top Rank vice president Carl Moretti told ESPN. Im glad for everyone involved that we were able to get (the side deal) done. This was very unexpected. Molina looked and acted fine all week, but even salt looks like sugar.Top Rank did not have any notion Molina was heavy until Friday morning, which is when Molina promoter Tom Brown of TGB Promotions called Moretti to inform him that Molina probably would not make weight.Ive never been overweight before, Molina said. I tried my best to get it off in the two-hour limit, but I couldnt.Crawford (29-0, 20 KOs), 29, unified titles with a one-sided decision win against Viktor Postol on July 23 in a career-best performance and will be making his fourth defense against Molina.Molina (29-6, 23 KOs), 33, of Covina, California, a big underdog, is coming off a significant victory against former junior welterweight world titleholder Ruslan Provodnikov on June 11, a fight for which Molina did make weight.Lightweights Raymundo Beltran (31-7-1, 19 KOs), 35, a Mexico native based in Phoenix, and Mason Menard (32-1, 24 KOs), 28, of Rayne, Louisiana, both weighed in inside the 135-pound limit for their scheduled 10-round co-feature. Beltran weighed 133.8 pounds and Menard was 134.2.Arizona Diamondbacks Shirts . Rob Manfred, baseballs chief operating officer, testified last week during the grievance filed by the players union to overturn Rodriguezs 211-game suspension. 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Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. Argentina boasts Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria.A son of the horse that sent trainer Paul Perry on his trailblazing Royal Ascot mission carries the stables early season two-year-old hopes at Rosehill.Choisir colt The Mission is set to have his second start in Saturdays two-year-old handicap at Rosehill over 1100m.Choisir took Perry to Royal Ascot where he won the 2003 Kings Stand Stakes and backed up four days later to win the Golden Jubilee Stakes.While he was already a Group One winner in Australia, Choisirs heroics in England paved the way for Australian sprinting stars to travel to the famous carnival.But despite his bloodlines, The Mission doesnt bare much of a family resemblance to the champion who sired him.I dont think hes of that mould. Hes a bay horse and theres a bit of length about him, Perry said.The Newcastle trainer has a strong history of developing top-class colts.Aside from Choisir, he also trained super sire Fastnet Rock and the late Stratum.Perry bought The Mission, a sibling of the James Cummings-trained Smart Amelia, from the Magic Millions yearling sale on the Gold Coast for $32,500.The Mission was a long neck away from GGodolphin colt Piracy who was one of two horses to break 51 seconds during the first official two-year-old trials at Randwick on September 19.ddddddddddddBut he couldnt replicate that form in the Listed Breeders Plate on October 1, finishing 17 lengths last.Perry said he was unsure if there was an issue with The Mission that day.He sort of got going to the barrier, Perry said.He didnt jump out that well, he didnt begin that well and he didnt take part more than anything.Following the Randwick misfire, Perry opted to send the colt around in a 900m trial at Muswellbrook on October 30 which he won by a length.Perry is hoping to capitalise on Tim Clarks supreme confidence after the jockey backed up a career-best five winners at Canterbury on Saturday by riding Hostwin Vintage to a dominant victory at Gosford on Wednesday.Hes in form, lets hope it can keep going, Perry said.The Mission is at $9.50 in market led by the John OShea-trained Veranillo who is the $2.60 favourite. 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