how to protect boxers from brain hemos from dehydration

[STEELHEAD]

its a fact that chances of bleeding of the brain is increased when a fighter dehydrates himself to make weight. if i got it right when you dehydrate yourself you have less fluid surrounding your brain protecting it so it gets rattled around more causing bleeding.

but what do you do?

have them weigh in a week before fight so they can blow up at a more normal rate by fight night? that don't seem fair.

have weigh in on fight night? that seems more dangerous.

make fighters ( i'm thinking of corrales/castillo) be tested for brain hematomas after fight. boy i think that would cut a lot of fighters careers short.

[JUYJUY]

If they dehydrate themselves they have done it to themselves as far as I'm concerned, do you know what I mean? They should fight in a heavier weight class or start training for a fight earlier. It's their own fault.

[Martin (Top Knowledge)]

its a fact that chances of bleeding of the brain is increased when a fighter dehydrates himself to make weight. if i got it right when you dehydrate yourself you have less fluid surrounding your brain protecting it so it gets rattled around more causing bleeding.

but what do you do?

have them weigh in a week before fight so they can blow up at a more normal rate by fight night? that don't seem fair.

have weigh in on fight night? that seems more dangerous.

make fighters ( i'm thinking of corrales/castillo) be tested for brain hematomas after fight. boy i think that would cut a lot of fighters careers short.

It's a tough tough question... I'm not sure what anyone can do.

The only solution I can think of is possibly random weight tests between fights to stop guys balooning up... (If they fail, they are banned from fighting in their chossen weight class and are forced to move up to the next weight catogory).

But that could be unfair on certain types of fighters.

[Renegade]

It's a tough tough question... I'm not sure what anyone can do.

The only solution I can think of is possibly random weight tests between fights to stop guys balooning up... (If they fail, they are banned from fighting in their chossen weight class and are forced to move up to the next weight catogory).

But that could be unfair on certain types of fighters.

Damn, Martin, that would really **** with your boy Rickey, wouldn't it?

But it is a helluva question, day of weigh-ins caused the fighters to come into the ring dehydrated, look at Ritchie Sandoval, day before weigh-ins allow certain fighters to blow up so they far outweigh their competition, Cotto & Gatti. Beats the hell outa me...

Maybe stay with day before and put a cap on how much weight can be added by fight time.

[SacTown1]

I believe that fighters shouldnt be allowed to GAIN a certain amount of weight following the fight, even after the actual fight has been completed...for instance, if Hatton weighed in at 155 next month, more than 10% heavier than his championship weight, he would be mandated to fight at 147 for the next year (maybe not stripped of the title, but not allowed to defend it for 1 year until he's at <154 for 2-3 consecutive months)...this would discourage guys from extreme weight fluxuation and strategicaly place them in their healthiest weight class

[SacTown1]

quick sidenote: I atended Barrera-Morales 2, and Fernando Montiel won a title belt vs. Pedro Alcazar that night, a guy who went thru many weight fluxuations, and 2 days after the fight Alcazar died from a combo of dehydration and a brain bleed or something of that nature....this stuff is serious business and something relly needs to be done about it

[Kid Achilles]

They should have to weigh in the day of the fight, like an hour or two before the fight. This would really deter them from drying out as they would have no time to recover.

[Renegade]

They should have to weigh in the day of the fight, like an hour or two before the fight. This would really deter them from drying out as they would have no time to recover.

That's what they used to do, nobody knew nothin' bout recovering, they just dried out, fought, and got whupped, cause they was tired and ****. Got knocked out bad, I think that had a little to do with Tommy Hearns' performance against Hagler. So anyway, they switched to day before weigh-ins, and now you got all this yo-yo (like the toy) **** goin' on, which is just as bad, if not worse.

[MAXWELL_]

can't see anyway of protecting a fighter from getting dehydrated to make weight if he doesnt want to be protected.

making it manditory for fighters to be checked for bleeding on the brain after hard fights might save some fighters life .

[FistoftheDallasStar]

The only real way to prevent this is each fighters trainer needs to make sure their fighter is in shape before the weigh in....and can actually make the weight of the scheduled fight.