Comments Thread For: Timothy Bradley?s hardest weight cut: ?I felt like I was close to death?

[BoxingUpdates]

Timothy Bradley doesn?t remember the opponent, but he can describe the weight cut in excruciating detail: ?I was starving for three days, four days. Starving."
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[SteveM]

Boxing. Half sport, half weight cutting ability.
If it's that painful you shouldn't be fighting at that weight.

[Smash]

and this is the safe way of doing things lol yeah rite

[macmike100]

There are so many weight loss plans out there. Very little from pro boxers it seems. I always wondered why they, of all people, didn’t write more about cutting weight to sell books etc. Maybe it’s so gruesome and hard that average people would or should never go that route. Not for average people, it seems. It must be very hard to do. Boxing.

[roademier]

bring back same day weighins.

[SouthpawRight]

bring back same day weighins.

or put rehydration limits

fight at your size!

[brankobugarski]

Boxing. Half sport, half weight cutting ability.
If it's that painful you shouldn't be fighting at that weight.

The problem is everybody is doing it to get an advantage so you are going to end up fighting a monster two weight divisions up on you.

[SteveM]

or put rehydration limits

fight at your size!

This is he answer - only the IBF has done it which is why many fighters won't go for an IBF ranking

[SteveM]

The problem is everybody is doing it to get an advantage so you are going to end up fighting a monster two weight divisions up on you.

the solution is a 2nd weigh-in on fight day with a re-hydration limit and if done for all fights then there'd be no monsters 2 weight classes above you as they'd be forced to move up divisions too.

[brankobugarski]

the solution is a 2nd weigh-in on fight day with a re-hydration limit and if done for all fights then there'd be no monsters 2 weight classes above you as they'd be forced to move up divisions too.

or else the fight night weigh ...