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  • PRINCEKOOL
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    #51
    Originally posted by Ultralight
    This is going to be dangerous and lead to more deaths. You're not going to stop guys from cutting weight but just make them cut more weight. They can get away with this in the UFC because fights there are just decided by strikes but with wrestling. Sure they throw kicks and knees which are harder than punches but the frequency is so much less than boxing. And when they get knocked down, it usually goes to the ground and gets stopped quickly. It's going to shorten the careers of so many boxers who age and aren't able to make weight. The UFC doesn't have this problem as much either since the average age of fighters joining the UFC is in the mid to late 20's
    Backwards modern day fighters, who refused to fight at their more natural weight 'should not dictate the sport. If they want to weight drain themselves, and suffer the consequences of such actions then that is completely and utterly 1000% their fault'.

    Note: The year is 2026, information on basic physiology is easily available 'every single modern day professional boxers, knows that weight draining tactics are damaging towards themselves over the long term. But they still use such tactics to gain, a perceived acute advantage on fight night. And this advantage will only last for maybe a few months, or years before the accumulative damage of continually weight draining themselves surfaces'.

    And then? We have scenes like Chris Eubank Junior complaining and collapsing, during his two fights vs. Conor Benn 'I have supported Eubank Junior throughout his entire career, but he has recently accelerated his own demise and it was all his fault. His father advised him to move back up into the 168 pound divisions for the remainder of his career, but instead? He decided to avoid fighting at his more natural weight'.

    Chris Eubank Junior not only made material gains his idol; he has also been the best recent poster boy 'for all modern day boxers, as to why you should not weight drain yourself. Eubank Junior has just been smashed up by Conor Benn for 12 rounds. Eubank Junior is skill for skill a by far better fighter than Benn, and he should never have lost the rematch or even been involve in a competitive fight vs. Benn during their first fight'.

    To conclude: It is not a mandatory to use weight draining tactics in boxing, fighters in the lower weight divisions pre-1980 all proved this 'and modern day fighters like Floyd Mayweather Junior, Bernard Hopkins and Carl Froch have all proved that it is actually? Better for a fighters overall well-being, conditioning and longevity in the sport not to use weight draining tactics'.

    People within boxing need to stop bowing down to fighters; it is almost like they can do no wrong? That is why I stand firmly by my first statement 'If fighters want to weight drain themselves and avoid fighting at their more natural fighting weight then? Get out of the sport. Or when you do get smashed up, don't complain. And then get out of the sport, or actually be a real honest competitor and compete on a more level playing field' etc.


    Last edited by PRINCEKOOL; 02-16-2026, 11:23 AM.

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