should boxers be required to weigh no more then their weight class on fight night?

[STEELHEAD]

dont you think it would make a differents if they couldnt weigh more than there weight class on fight night.

[leff]

Well every boxers would push themselves down weight anyway, however being badly dehydrated with just a couple og hours to eat and drink to get back upp would mean,2 things one the fighters would be more tired. 2 it would be a lot more dangerous to fight while dehydrated.

[pinaldino]

Well every boxers would push themselves down weight anyway, however being badly dehydrated with just a couple og hours to eat and drink to get back upp would mean,2 things one the fighters would be more tired. 2 it would be a lot more dangerous to fight while dehydrated.

That's why I think some fighters would move up to where they belong, and stop starving themselves to make weight in a class where they can meet smaller fighters and have an advantage in morphology.
It's one thing to loose maximum fat, but it's another one to dehydrate your body to make weight. a dangerous one as you say.
And when you have a natural, let say 140 pounder on the scale /142 the night of the fight, who meets a guy who weighted in at 140 but is over 150 the night of the night, I think it's just dangerous for the smaller guy!

[Bombardier]

Gains after the weigh-in are a pretty serious problem. I think that some amateur tornaments have switched to weighing guys in on the day of the fight...someone with more knowledge can fill us on this.

[.::|ULTIMATE|::.]

None. That is boxing, if you were to make fighters dehydrate themselves and make weight on fight day they could end up being seriously hurt.

Plus boxing has always been like that, make the lowest weight possible so that you are not outgunned by the biggest of the division.

[abdiel2k3]

def
weigh in on fight nite
fighters should be fighten guys of equal weight on the fight nite

all thos esayin guys would get hurt dehydraten themselves
dats the points
theyd move up
to where they belong
it would make fights alot fairer
then some one like cotto and castillo
who come into fights usually 12 lbs heaveir

[.::|ULTIMATE|::.]

def
weigh in on fight nite
fighters should be fighten guys of equal weight on the fight nite

all thos esayin guys would get hurt dehydraten themselves
dats the points
theyd move up
to where they belong
it would make fights alot fairer
then some one like cotto and castillo
who come into fights usually 12 lbs heaveir

Boxing is about sacrifice dude, whoever is willing to sacrifice themselves the most deserve it.

Plus in reality no one actually walks around in their weight division weight so they are all bigger guys, the guys who work the most are the ones who make it to the top. The ones that dont are the ones complaining.

[amaru]

That's why I think some fighters would move up to where they belong, and stop starving themselves to make weight in a class where they can meet smaller fighters and have an advantage in morphology.
It's one thing to loose maximum fat, but it's another one to dehydrate your body to make weight. a dangerous one as you say.
And when you have a natural, let say 140 pounder on the scale /142 the night of the fight, who meets a guy who weighted in at 140 but is over 150 the night of the night, I think it's just dangerous for the smaller guy!

i always wondered if boxers would fight any different on the night of the fight if they weighed the same as the limit suggests for their division. i dont know how morales managed to fight at 122lbs. even when he fought barrera recently he was 142lbs on the night of the fight, thats was 10lbs more than barrera.

[abdiel2k3]

Boxing is about sacrifice dude, whoever is willing to sacrifice themselves the most deserve it.

Plus in reality no one actually walks around in their weight division weight so they are all bigger guys, the guys who work the most are the ones who make it to the top. The ones that dont are the ones complaining.

exaxctly
and that needs to change
it is about sacrifce
dehydraten yourself is "workin"
its a cheap way to get an advantage
and advantage that can cause unfair fights
unfair fights that end up with serious injuries

[Mr. Violence]

dont you think it would make a differents if they couldnt weigh more than there weight class on fight night.

that would be dangerous to the fighters bro. fighters dehydrate themselves to make weight. when you are dehydrated you are more suseptable to getting brain damage from a punch. thats the big reason why Gerald McClellan got messed up in that fight.