The official weigh-in at the Commonwealth Games boxing competition was abandoned on Monday after faulty scales showed most of the fighters were too heavy.
Irate coaches demanded the scales be checked after some boxers tried to sweat off weight by using saunas or going for runs only to return and weigh more than before.
"It is a farce, but there is not a lot more we can do, I have never seen this before," Australia's assistant boxing coach Don Abnett told Australian Associated Press.
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Northern Ireland coach Stephen Friel added that the incident was unprecedented.
"The whole place was in uproar," said Friel. "All of the coaches here said they had never seen anything like it."
Competition manager Lenni Gama initially tried to brush the issue under the carpet, saying: "The scales are perfect".
But Gama eventually relented with the weigh-in now set for Tuesday morning, just ahead of the opening bouts, once the scales are recalibrated.
It was the latest crisis at the troubled Games, which have been dogged by worries over threats of terror attacks, corruption, construction delays, and outbreaks of dengue fever.
