yes floyd mayweather started at super featherweight!

[BmoreBrawler]

Come one guys. Flawless says Mr boat buyer and Pac are the same size so that's all that matters right?

they were saying the same bull**** before the Hatton/Fraudweather fight.

[JAB5239]

Posted November 18th 2008 at 10:45pm
By Margaret Goodman, M.D.Buzz up!
When I became a ring physician in 1994, I was naïve about the boxing business. But as I became more involved in the sport on a local and national level, the outright refusal by many officials to implement desperately needed changes to protect fighters and improve safety became suffocating.

Why the delay? Is it just naivete on the part of others? Or is safety often too complicated a distraction? And when is naivete merely blind ignorance?

While safety in sports like NASCAR and professional football has evolved, boxing safety has not, at least not sufficiently. Commissions concentrate on deflecting blame rather than ensuring that federal law is followed. Accountability simply doesn’t exist.

Let’s simplify the matter and start not with what we wish, but what we can change now to advance boxer protection. Five changes that could improve fighter safety:

1. Go back to same-day weigh-ins

If an athlete is well-conditioned, the timing of the weigh-in shouldn’t matter. For generations, the weigh-in took place the day of the fight. Boxers would step on a scale, drink a cup of water and step in the ring. But some of them came into a bout so dry they were unable to give a good performance. They often failed to replace essential fluids and therefore couldn’t address problems on a cellular level that resulted from dehydrating to make weight.

In the mid-1980s, the weigh-in was pushed back to 24-hours before a bout to address the dehydration issue. Many were optimistic this would be a springboard to educate fighters and trainers about the dangers of dehydration.

Unfortunately, the day-before-the-fight weigh-in has become an agent of unfairness contradictory to fighter safety. Contracts are too often based on earning power and not body size, meaning boxers are competing in weight classes in which they don’t belong. With many weigh-ins taking place more than 24 hours before the bout, fighters are not just replenishing water but actually gaining weight.

Same-day weigh-ins would force fighters to compete in a weight class where they belong. Also, if they would show up at the weigh-in (no more than 12 hours before the bout) dehydrated, they simply wouldn’t be cleared to fight.

The cost to return to same-day weigh-ins would be negligible. Over a short period of time, it would encourage fighters to compete in a weight class in which they belong. Fights would be fairer, and there would be less wear and tear on the fighter’s body. And, ultimately, healthy, well-hydrated fighters make for more exciting fights.

Boxing needs to admit its mistake and revert to same-day weigh-ins.


Goodman's article is good and it presupposes their would be medical testing like their wasn't at Kim-Mancini and a host of other fights that end in death because fighters dehydrating to make same day weigh in.
That was a huge reason they moved fights from same day weigh ins.

Hopefully, responsible doctors would monitor fighters whatever the rule happens to be,

The studies I have read have basically indicated their doesn't seem to be worse consequences either way- both are equally bad.

The thing that bothers me though, you're judging Floyd and his opposition by rules that don't exist- this is the flaw here.

This is the part, I don't like and it seems to be an excuse to justify any opposition good or bad, the natural weigh thing.

Very nice, and a great article too.

[aether]

Bingo!

Floyd won the Golden Gloves at 106lbs, and I would guarantee you he would have whooped the **** out of Pacquiao who was pro at 106 getting his ass knocked out by bums.

Floyd OWNS Pac at any weight, PERIOD!

would have, could have, should have

[deevel79]

Mayweather was just a kid at those weights., People do grow into adulthood you know.

Well according to some of his idiot fanboys, he's a natural 130lber because that's where he started at.

They seem to forget that people do grow.

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Well according to some of his idiot fanboys, he's a natural 130lber because that's where he started at.

They seem to forget that people do grow.

ok if he a nautral ww if jmm or pac want to figh thim it should be at 145 because he a nautral ww but if you think he can make 140 still then he can't be a nautral ww he just a blow up jww.

floyd shane and cotto are now nautral ww and none of them can fight below 145 with out killing themself to make 143 or lower but if you think they can make that weight easy then they can't be nautral ww.