Comments Thread For: Carlos Adames treated for dehydration; Austin Williams fight is cancelled

[BoxingUpdates]

Carlos Adames, the WBC middleweight beltholder, fell ill with apparent dehydration and was taken by ambulance to a nearby medical facility, an official connected to Adames told BoxingScene Friday
[Click Here To Read More]

[HisExcellency]

WEAK af…the rest of the undercard stinks bar the Keyshawn fight

[Moz_boxing]

I can't understand how Boxing is still allowing this weight cutting thing. For me this is easily the most absurd thing in Boxing and MMA (properly almost any combat sport) as well.
The risk to suffer severe brain damage and die in the ring gets increased to a crazy amount since the brain will never be able to hydrate properly and it is basically unprotected without the fluids around it.

In boxing you have so many people that risk their lifes while cutting weight and in MMA it is even worse almost everyone cuts 20-30 pounds in the UFC. Someone saw the UFC guy that collapsed on stage right after stepping from the scale? That is some scary ish but more scary is the fact that this probably happes a lot but just not on camera and the scariest part is, if this happens not on camera this fighter would go out the next day and have a fight since he needs this payday, if he dies or is brain dead after the fight we will never know what happened before because it would put everyone involved in legal trouble.

This whole weight cutting thing can be fixed so easy. You weigh in on the night of the fight not the day, the night of the fight like 2 hours before your bout begins and after that someone from the commision is present all the time. No possibility to cut weight and use an IV.
If you miss weight the fight continues since the fans are already there but you lose 70-80 percent of your purse and it goes to your opponent. If you pull out you because of that you will be banned for 1-2 years. If you suddenly get ill 2 hours before the fight, a doctor exams you and if he can spot a serious condition that's your only way out without getting banned.

We have so many weight classes in boxing and i'm a big supporter of that but this should also easily allow us to fight in our own natural weight class without cutting weight. It's impossible to miss weight with so many weight classes if everyone just fights on his natural weight.

And in this way we really see who is the best without advantages on the night.

[DeeMoney]

Doesnt the WBC require certain weight check ins in the weeks leading up to the fight to help prevent this from happening? If so, did Adames make these?

[Moz_boxing]

WEAK af…the rest of the undercard stinks bar the Keyshawn fight

I was looking forward to see it but lets be honest it was the biggest mismatch on the card and it would have been a KO win by Adames.

[Moz_boxing]

Doesnt the WBC require certain weight check ins in the weeks leading up to the fight to help prevent this from happening? If so, did Adames make these?

all of this crap does not help at all neither does the IBF rehydration rule it makes it even worse. If they want to fix it they can easily do same day weigh ins but somehow they don't want to fix it.

[HisExcellency]

I was looking forward to see it but lets be honest it was the biggest mismatch on the card and it would have been a KO win by Adames.

Agreed but it still would've been nice to see it manifest into reality!

[El_Mero]

Ke pendejo

[El_Mero]

WEAK af…the rest of the undercard stinks bar the Keyshawn fight

Whole undercard stanks. And by how Shakur usually fights, the main event will also

[Coverdale]

He has feuded verbally over the past few months with fellow 160lbs champion, Janibek Alimkhanuly, who has had his own weight-cutting issues.

Feuding on social media but not making it to actual fights: about sums these two clowns up.

Strip them of the belts and move on.