Why don't fighters move down in weight?

[xoalvinox]

Due to the fact of bigger money in higher divisions.
All fighters, I don't care what they say, is money first...

[fist-of-fury]

Because there is no really effective reducing 'diets' in the market?

[jack_the_rippuh]

I remember Bernard Hopkins agreed to move down in weight when he was calling out Mosley, De La Hoya, and Winky Wright..

[tri4ben2]

I think moving up in weight has more to do with guys having more trouble losing the 15 lbs they need to in the weeks before their fights.

The next reason is money. If Jeff Lacy could make a fight with BHop at 160 and get 5 mil, I guarentee he could move down and make the weight.

[realtim]

Moslet is a great example of failing moving up in weights and RJJ. If Mosley ditched the protein shakes got a nutrionist in he could make Welter easily.

[Mr. Ryan]

Easy, some fighters can't move back down. Sugar Shane Mosley would never make it back to lightweight. Just as Holyfield could never get back to cruiserweight.

[brickhouse187]

Because most fighters these days feel like the only way they can prove themselves to the world is by going up and fighting for maaad money. Look at Hopkins the only time he ever fought out of middleweight is when he had his pro debut at 177. He has never left middleweight since and now the fights are coming to him.

[simeraksou]

Why is it that after a fighter goes up in weight and win a title and then start getting beat up by the bigger guys refuse to go back down in weight...This weekend mosley said he would stay at 154, but he sucks at that weight, just like Roy Jones does at light heavy and De la Hoya at middle...What's up? In the boxing world are you considered less of a fighter if you move down in weight?

i think it's cuz as a fighter ages, they put on weight naturally so it's harder to stay at the lower weight class. so it's less draining for them to fight at a higher weight

[Mikie]

I agree! There's a lot of fighters that don't carry extra weight well.