Boxing weigh-in farce at Commonwealth Games

Kiwi boxing coach Billy Meehan was left fuming after incorrect scales readings in Delhi caused mayhem at the official Commonwealth Games boxing weigh-in.

In a farcical scene on the opening morning of the Games, boxers throughout the Commonwealth stepped on to the scales and were incorrectly measured as overweight.

"It was a muck-up, really,'' Meehan, coach of the six-strong Kiwi team, said.

"The scales were out by up to two kilos. If they don't make the weight now, they are out, end of story.''

Meehan said the dodgy scales did not surprise him because one of his boxers  Nathon McEwen  had mentioned it to officials a day earlier.

"Nathon brought it up yesterday and said the scales were off to the officials and they said they would be right today,'' he said.

"Our boys are all fine, though.

"It's not really good enough. It's the Commonwealth Games and the scales should be spot-on. They should be 100 per cent.''

Bizarrely, many boxers who were incorrectly  weighed were forced to run around the athletes' village or jump into a sauna to shed the kilos.

"I have never seen nothing like it,'' Australia's assistant coach Don Abnett said.

"Our boys were really down and worried they are going to get a real telling off from the coach for going overweight, when all along they are fine.

"We have brought our own callipers from the Australian Institute of Sport and have been monitoring all of our boys and they are absolutely spot-on so we were very surprised by the readings.

"Two of them went on and the scales said they were 700 grams overweight so they had to go and sweat it off.

"But when they got back it they said they were two kilos heavier than before.

"It is ridiculous and now we have boys who have lost too much weight, which is not good.''

Games officials decided to act after irate coaches demanded to have the scales checked. A 50kg weight then was brought up from the gym at the athletes' village and, when placed on the scales, measured at 51.4kg.

A second weigh-in will now take place today, just hours before the competition starts, something Abnett said was not ideal.

"It is a farce, but there is not a lot more we can do. I have never seen this before.

"I thought last year when I witnessed a bloke in Victoria win a fight with one arm I had seen it all, but this even tops that.''

-with AAP