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If you could change the current rule, when would you feel its ideal to set the weight in, given some fighters balloon 15 lbs over night
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The day before the fight was put in to protect the fighters health. Fighters are more susceptible to injuries, cuts, swelling, brain damage.....etc when they only have 10ish hours to rehydrate.
This is the same reason they only have stopped having 15round fights.
WBC has attempted to minimize excessive weight gain by having check points leading to fights which have percentages of how much over the contracted weight they can be over. I believe the WBC mandates that at 1 week prior to a fight, the fighter can not weight more than 10% of contracted weight. -
The official weigh in should be both the day of the fight and the day before. The rules should specify that the daily variation should only be a very small percentage. This will make dehydration much more difficult and will force men to come in closer to their natural fighting weight.Comment
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i like the msg rules in ny where u cant gain more than 10 lbs overnight.. ex cotto - judahComment
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Guys should have to make weight in the morning of the fight. If you can't rehydrate that fast, fight at a weight closer to your natural weight.
MSG is strict because that cheating piece of garbage Arturo Gatti never really made weight and then packed on like over 20lbs overnight and gave Joey Gamache(who made weight) brain damage.Comment
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im with the MSG rules over 10 is pushing itComment
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Gatti got on the scale. While the official was looking at the weight bar, one of Gamache's trainers caught one of Gatti's trainers with his foot under the scale. The guy moved his foot before the official caught him. Gatti jumped off the scale and the officials said he made the weight limit! Gamache's corner demanded he get back on, but the officials said he did not have to. At the weigh in before the fight, Gatti was like ~20-25lbs overweight. Either he gained an ungodly amount of weight or he never made weight in the first place(my opinion is he never made weight). Gamache and his trainers had too much courage and honor for their own good and did not pull out of the fight. That fight was Gamache's final fight, he now has permanent brain damage. He was KO'd violently, I think it was like round 3 or 4. Gamache filed a lawsuit recently, but I cannot remember the outcome.
While I respect Gatti for being a fighter, as a human being he is a complete piece of ****. This may sound rough, but if he keeps fighting and himself ends up with brain damage, I would look at it as justice served.Comment
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Most fight cards start around 8 or so in the evening, with the main events around 10.
I'd prefer to see the weigh-ins at around 4 to 6 on the same day, or at worst in the morning.
The fighters should be within 5 pounds of the specified weight at the time of the fight - if they're not, they shouldn't be at that weight.
As to the stuff about dangers of rehydration, fight at your proper weight division.Comment
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