What Makes Someone A Weight Bully? (Serious Question)

[MPDKSAB]

What are some of the determining factors you look for to determine what makes a guy a weight bully?

Is it 1 thing or do you have a list of things said fighter would have to have done to be labeled with this distinction? Elaborate.

[just the facts]

Nothing. Either you make the contracted weight or you don’t.

[Smash]

u mean these guys

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[Smash]

but seriously, a weight bully is someone like charlo, who canelo fans said was huge for his weight and was actually a lot bigger than canelo himself and may even bully him as the bigger guy in the ring

[4truth]

Successful, usually, because they have a talent for hydration and dehydration, more so than because they are great fighters. In an era of day of the fight weigh-ins, having to fight men their own size, they might be much less successful.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

****** terminology invented by fanboys. Like calling a fighter “green” who’s had 30-40 pro fights.

[meme_man]

****** terminology invented by fanboys. Like calling a fighter “green” who’s had 30-40 pro fights.

Lol very true

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Lol very true

Honestly there’s so many, you have fighters who’ve beaten multiple world champions, even HOF’ers being labelled “cherry pickers”.

[ELPacman]

I think it applies to two types of fighters. One being the guy who is the bigger man and literally picks on smaller fighters or calls smaller fighters to come up and face him.

The second is the fighter who can get down and make the weight, but overnight balloons themselves up two or three weight classes. I can't think of too many recent ones that do this consistently, but a good one that comes to mind was Arturo Gatti. Just look up his fight against Joey Gamache. He almost killed the dude. I believe they said he gained 24lbs or something over night. Imagine Gamache gained, MAYBE 4lbs overnight or something. That's a frightening size difference and in the case of that particular fight, it was. I'm pretty sure following that fight, some organizations made rules that you couldn't gain over 17lbs overnight.

[MPDKSAB]

Bumped up