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You forgot to mention Corrales himself failed to make weight against Casamayor and robbed himself of his biggest payday
Epic ***ing fail!!!!!!!!
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You forgot to mention Corrales himself failed to make weight against Casamayor and robbed himself of his biggest payday
Epic ***ing fail!!!!!!!!
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Boxing and the Law:
By David Berlin
Holding the weigh-in on the day of the fight, as Pennsylvania does, encourages fighters to make weight in the proper way, and to fight in their proper weight classes.
“What’s more important,” asks Sirb, “what the kid weighs before the fight or what he weighs at competition?”
And that, finally, is the point. The reason that weight classes exist at all is to ensure a fair fight. Fair and safe competition begins with the requirement that the two men facing each other are the same size.
If that is the goal, as it must be, then the way to achieve that goal is by holding day-of-the-fight weigh-ins. That is the only way to encourage boxers to fight in their proper weight classes.- “Pick on someone your own size”
may be a schoolyard rebuke, but it is a call, at bottom, for fairness.
Any change from the present system of day-before weigh-ins is bound to meet with resistance from both promoters and fighters.
But Merchant believes that a combination of creative and legal thinking can overcome this resistance.
On the creative side, promoters need to find different ways to market their fights so that they do not have to depend on weigh-ins.
Adjusting the times of press conferences, making fighters available to the press and holding public work-outs are among a number of suggestions offered by Merchant. Administratively, commissioners, particularly those in the major fight venues of Nevada and California in the west, and New York and New Jersey in the east, need to institute a policy of day-of-the-fight weigh-ins.
“Ultimately what will happen is that fighters will start to fight at a weight that is more natural for them,” says Merchant.
In his lead-in to the HBO-televised Barrios-Guzman fight, Merchant spoke on air about a movement to return to weigh-ins on the day of the fight in order to stop the practice of fighters trying to make weight in the wrong way.
He was speaking about Jorge Barrios, but hovering behind his comments was the shadow of Jose Luis Castillo.
Both fighters failed to make weight for title fights, and the only reason they tried to make a weight that was unnaturally low given the size of their bodies was that they knew they would have more than 24 hours to put weight back on. Early weigh-ins, says Merchant,
- “discourage some fighters from training as hard as they have to because they think they can finesse it.”
If Castillo knew that he would not have more than a day to replenish his body, he would not have pretended to be a lightweight.
Safety and fairness matter – they matter more than publicity – and we will move one step closer to those goals by having fighters fight in their proper weight classes.Comment
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What’s more important????
What the Fighters weighs before the fight ???
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What the Fighter weighs at the time of the fight???Comment
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No I actually pointed out that a fighter who went on and on that he lost because of weight was a ****ing fraud himself and what it proved is that he lost because the other fighter had greater skill not because of weight advantages.
This was the one and only real example of a fighter complaining about a weight advantage and what happened? He shot it to **** himself which continues to further my point.Comment
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You truly are an idiot. Truly. Now you are calling a fighter a fraud because he was outweighed by 20lbs. Your ******ity never ceases to amaze me!! Your sorry little 'never fought before' ass has been owned this entire thread. You're the only one who doesn't see it that way. Lmao!!!Comment
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