How is it possible that a grown man weights 147 or less?

[JakeTheBoxer]

I am not very high, something like Canelo. My weight was about 150 when I was 13 years old. It was about 170 when I was 17-18.

Now I am over 40, I am not fat and I am around 180. I would have to cut both legs of to make 154.

I don`t understand how grown men, bigger than me, "make" weight around 147 -160.

The smallest weight limit I could "make" would be a light heavy limit around 175.

[MaksBox]

How tall are you?

Biggest answers are 1. fat that gets burned during constant training, and 2. cutting lots and lots of water weight... some can temporarily cut the weight better than others...

And thus the issue of boxing and weight classes when we have weigh ins almost 36 hours before the fight.

Same day weigh ins would surely change who fights at what weight category.

[Teetotaler69]

Ask hearns, Williams, Margarito. Hell even fundora


just being healthy and genes.

[deathofaclown]

Because they're just small men.

I mean look at flyweights and bantamweights, they're grown men the size of a 13 year old girl how many men do you see in public like that? Almost never. You could walk around all day and maybe see 1 or 2.

That's why it's probably very easy for flyweight to have success as a boxer, because there's so few adult men that size, so if you're that big and take up boxing, you'll probably become well known

How many sports cater for men the size of little girls? It's really boxing and horse racing.

It's much harder to have success as a fighter around 168 than is flyweights who are basically a tiny minority of midgets.

[M312]

Not sure if you're looking for the obvious answer, but 60% of your body is made up of water.

They're dehydrated (and little body fat) on weigh in and bulk up on water directly after.

They aren't actually 147lbs. They will be that weight for hours, if not less.

[elfag]

Theyre all manlets, that is just the reality of our favorite sport. I seen so many comments from fans that upon seeing fighters in person up close their first reaction is how small they all are.


A lot of it is misleading though for the guys at 147-160, so many of those guys are 180+ walk around weight. Some guys like say morales, corales, hatton, if you remember those guys weighing in how gaunt they were, they were really forcing their bodies to make those weights. Some guys like a mayweather you can just look at his dad and uncle in their 50s-60s and they have that metabolism type where they never really gain weight no matter what or how much they eat.

[pretty boy_]

Well for one your diet mainly consists of Doritos and Pepsi so it's no wonder why you wouldn't able to make 154 even with 9 months of training. The men you're talking about have been athletic and disciplined they're entire lives. Their bodies and minds are conditioned for tough tasks like making a certain weight. Floyd Mayweather for example, he's 5'10" and probably weighing 170 at the moment but give him 8 weeks to make 147 and it would be done with little effort.

[Smash]

Floyd Mayweather for example, he's 5'10"
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i thought floyd was 5 ft 8, 5 10 seems a bit tall for him to me

[KayDub]

I am not very high, something like Canelo. My weight was about 150 when I was 13 years old. It was about 170 when I was 17-18.

Now I am over 40, I am not fat and I am around 180. I would have to cut both legs of to make 154.

I don`t understand how grown men, bigger than me, "make" weight around 147 -160.

The smallest weight limit I could "make" would be a light heavy limit around 175.

Go lookup a BMI calculator.

If you're 180lbs you better be 6' or taller.

If you're purposefully bulking and putting on weight to get bigger, boxers don't do that.

[Daccan]

Because they have no body fat. If you don't have visible abs at 180, you can forget about being a competitive 160lb fighter. You'd probably have to drop down to welterweight, maybe less. There are also practices called where you literally trick your body into pissing itself dry and immediately rehydrating after getting on the scale. With boxing that's risky but keep in mind that Hearns was a complete weight bully and most of his success comes from dealing with smaller people at 147.