Weighing The Weight Issue

it should be at a catchweight then, stopping a fighter from rehydrating properly is too dangerous brain fluid is not important. what's important is everyone weigh the same.

Yeah well go to your Proper weight class then you won't have to worry about all of that. You won't have to kill yourself trying to make a weight class you don't belong in...or how about staying in shape YEAR AROUND! it should be at a catchweight then, stopping a fighter from rehydrating properly is too dangerous

Yep, weight is now a huge issue since Pacman and Floyd became the face of boxing. All of a sudden guys are too big for weight classes whenever they decide to move up, lol. yea man, i just recently ran out of milk, damn you may and pac, you bastards!

yup deaths and brain damage is a fair price to pay. Yeah well go to your Proper weight class then you won't have to worry about all of that. You won't have to kill yourself trying to make a weight class you don't belong in...or how about staying in shape YEAR AROUND!

just don't go up to a weight where you think posssible opponents are too big for you. depriving fighters of fluid intake hours before a fight is a complete nonsense and dangerous.

in my opinion it shouldn't matter its the fighters job to figure out his most effective weight, if his opponent is cutting lots of weight then he's giving up speed and stamina, but has more power its give and take

Yep, weight is now a huge issue since Pacman and Floyd became the face of boxing. All of a sudden guys are too big for weight classes whenever they decide to move up, lol.

Same Day Weigh In would pretty much separate the boys from the men and also force fighters to go to the weight divisions they truly belong in or risk losing a lot of money or risk going into a fight drained but if nothing is being done about it then it will only get worse, some middleweight will eventually reach 200 lbs on fight night and maybe a fighter gets seriously injured because of the rediculous weight difference yup deaths and brain damage is a fair price to pay.

Same Day Weigh In would pretty much separate the boys from the men and also force fighters to go to the weight divisions they truly belong in or risk losing a lot of money or risk going into a fight drained but if nothing is being done about it then it will only get worse, some middleweight will eventually reach 200 lbs on fight night and maybe a fighter gets seriously injured because of the rediculous weight difference

If you don't let them put that water weight back on they could get serious brain damage in a fight.

Obviously the issue with same day weigh-ins is fighters being seriously weakened in the effort to make weight and not having enough time to recover. Some people suggest two weigh-ins is the way to do it, with the first being the day before like it is now, and the second being on the morning of the fight with a limit in place for how much the fighters can gain. Allows fighters some recovery time after the weigh-in but makes it harder for them to balloon in weight as they still have to be under a certain limit the following day. It's a difficult problem to solve. There's doesn't seem to be any easy answer to it. guys being unfairly heavier is not as big a problem as boxers dying imo.

it's not a good idea to limit how much a guy rehydrates. the elimination of same day weigh ins has lessened deaths and brain damage imo. if guys are too big in a division for you, move down. limiting how much water puts in his body is not good at all. lots of fluid around your brain when you're getting hit in the head is a good idea.

This never happened in the same day weigh in days. Fighters had about 8 hours between the weigh in and the fight. If they gained more than a few pounds they would be waterlogged and bloated. They won't go back and this problem won't go away. Obviously the issue with same day weigh-ins is fighters being seriously weakened in the effort to make weight and not having enough time to recover. Some people suggest two weigh-ins is the way to do it, with the first being the day before like it is now, and the second being on the morning of the fight with a limit in place for how much the fighters can gain. Allows fighters some recovery time after the weigh-in but makes it harder for them to balloon in weight as they still have to be under a certain limit the following day. It's a difficult problem to solve. There's doesn't seem to be any easy answer to it.

This never happened in the same day weigh in days. Fighters had about 8 hours between the weigh in and the fight. If they gained more than a few pounds they would be waterlogged and bloated. They won't go back and this problem won't go away.

It's only unfair if a ww comes in weighing like 153 on fight night the other guy is 160+. You could then argue that the guy weighing 153 be fighting in a lighter division though.

With that amount of weight to shift, that plays a major role in power, as well as durability. Look at the Lara-Angulo situation, although Lara was told he couldn't weight 10 pounds over the Jr MW limit. It's a joke, I'm not understanding the point of weight classes anymore.

The aim is to make the weight limit. After that, it should not be a case of restricting what weight a fighter comes in at. Unless they somehow go up to 180 over night as some people here think Bradley does lmao

Even if there were stricter limits in place it wouldn't stop criticism of a fighter. If he did knock them out, he would get criticised about something else. Size is the only advantage that is regulated. All the others (speed, skill, reflexes, etc.) are unregulated. If we apply even stricter weight measures that advantage will be gone altogether, even though it is a legitimate strength.