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To make weight, some fighters completely dehydrate themselves before the weigh-in and barely drink any fluids or eat anything... this kinda "dries" out the body so to speak because of the natural fluids they are missing from dehydrating themselves to make weight.
After this, the fighter will drink and eat after the weigh-in whatever you want and the body receives these fluids back and gets food in your system... so once you get back from the weigh-in and making weight over night after getting fluids and food back in your system your body will rehydrate back to its more original body weight over night before the fight. This has been natural fact and is the reason for the day before weigh-ins being made, fighters used to dehydrate themselves to make weight on the day and were forced to fight in that state and were unhealthy, this was unsafe for the fighter so they brought the day before weigh-in in to give there body chance to rehydrate and take its normal course.
Example would be De La Hoya vs Pacquiao, he usually weighs 160+ on fight night cause he would dehydrate to 154 and then let his body get back to normal by fight night... in that fight it was at 147 and he had to weight 147 on fight night or pay a certain amount for each pound he is over on the night, cause he was 147 on fight night instead of his normal 160+ he wasn't really fighting fit and you could tell he was dehydrated in the fight (not taking anything away from Pacquiao).
They call it unofficial cause they just do it in the dressing rooms before the fight and write it down to put on HBO... they are still probably very accurate, but just not official, like when I weighed myself last month I was 9 stone, most likely pretty accurate, but not official.
After this, the fighter will drink and eat after the weigh-in whatever you want and the body receives these fluids back and gets food in your system... so once you get back from the weigh-in and making weight over night after getting fluids and food back in your system your body will rehydrate back to its more original body weight over night before the fight. This has been natural fact and is the reason for the day before weigh-ins being made, fighters used to dehydrate themselves to make weight on the day and were forced to fight in that state and were unhealthy, this was unsafe for the fighter so they brought the day before weigh-in in to give there body chance to rehydrate and take its normal course.
Example would be De La Hoya vs Pacquiao, he usually weighs 160+ on fight night cause he would dehydrate to 154 and then let his body get back to normal by fight night... in that fight it was at 147 and he had to weight 147 on fight night or pay a certain amount for each pound he is over on the night, cause he was 147 on fight night instead of his normal 160+ he wasn't really fighting fit and you could tell he was dehydrated in the fight (not taking anything away from Pacquiao).
They call it unofficial cause they just do it in the dressing rooms before the fight and write it down to put on HBO... they are still probably very accurate, but just not official, like when I weighed myself last month I was 9 stone, most likely pretty accurate, but not official.
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