Why is weigh-in the day before the fight?

[Google_It_Bitch]

Because if it happend the day after the fight it just wouldn't matter now would it :lmfao:

[deanrw]

The rules are in place to make sure a fighter is properly hydrated. Every person has a fluid barrier that surrounds the brain and protects it from violent shock. In a dehydrated fighter, there is less fluid and a higher risk to a fighter getting a serious injury or killed.

[Stickman]

I dont think so.

If I was a fighter I would rather enter the ring 2 weight classes higher being hydrated and fight a bigger guy badly dehydrated.

Think De La Hoya-Pacquiao.

Now say sorry, because the post you made didn't make sense.

Try again.

That'd be great, Joe, if everybody thought like you, but they don't. Most fighters believe the "Bigger is better" addage and want to squeeze into the smallest weight class they can, which means extreme dehydration, which is why the weigh in is the day before, giving them time to rehydrate before putting themselves through 12 rounds of a fight.

Now you say "Sorry", Joe, 'cause you know I'm right.

[Jim Jeffries]

It's a conspiracy against Floyd Mayweather Jr.

But seriously, Deanrw hit it right on the head.

[realinsanepinoy]

Would you guys consider cutting weight as much a part of a fighter's skill set?

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That'd be great, Joe, if everybody thought like you, but they don't. Most fighters believe the "Bigger is better" addage and want to squeeze into the smallest weight class they can, which means extreme dehydration, which is why the weigh in is the day before, giving them time to rehydrate before putting themselves through 12 rounds of a fight.

Now you say "Sorry", Joe, 'cause you know I'm right.

You know most top fighters wouldn't do that.

Their team would know that being hydrated is 100x better than being extremely dehydrated.

again, they would look at the De La Hoya-Pacquiao for proof of which is better.

so most fighters would move up in weight, not stay at the same ****ing weight and be a zombie

[Silencers]

really? can u elaborate on this? i've always wondered too,..thanks

Duk Koo Kim had to lose a few pounds before the Mancini fight, which doctors said could have been a contributing factor to his death because he couldn't rehydrate himself properly and didn't have enough fluid protecting his brain from sloshing around.

Which one would you favor same day weigh-in or a day before and why? Would you consider cutting weight as much a part of a fighter's skill set?

Boxing would probably be a bit fairer with same day weigh ins because you'd have more fighters fighting in their natural weight classes but day before weigh ins are safer so I think it's better safe than sorry, I'm fine with day before weigh ins, I know a few people here who would prefer to go back to same day weigh ins though.

[Sparked_1985]

Would you guys consider cutting weight as much a part of a fighter's skill set?

No, losing weight is not a skill.

"Damn Son, look at that boy, losing weight like a motherphucker, Pound 4 Pound baby, pound for pound!"

[JAB5239]

Du Ku Kim died after a fight with Boom Boom Mancini, many believe because of dehydration, and the extra rounds we don't have now. So, we now have weigh-ins the day before the fight, rather than the day of, and 12 rounds, rather than 15, or even 13.

Incidentally, the ref of the Mancini fight committed suicide, and Mancini was never the same again.

This wasn't the only fight that caused these changes in the sport, just one of the more prominent.

The ***** of it is, people are still dying because they further try to cheat the odds without properly knowing how to go about it.

I've read that in the 1940's there were 60,000 registered professional boxers (from the book "Charley Burley and the black murderers row"), where as today there are something like 2,000. I would bet percentage wise there are more deaths today than back then. IF that is true I believe it it because fighters fight so much less now, than then. This is amature guess work on my part, but I think it traumatizes a body more to go thru the rigors of severe weight loss less often. Almost as if it doing it more it builds a tolerance. Like I said though, this is guess work at best and by no means am I stating it as fact. Either way boxing would be better of and more legitimate if we had same day weigh ins. Jmo.

[realinsanepinoy]

No, losing weight is not a skill.

"Damn Son, look at that boy, losing weight like a motherphucker, Pound 4 Pound baby, pound for pound!"

Good point that made me laugh. But what i meant is it is a must because of the a day before weigh-in, u can rehydrate and that would be one big advantage.