How different would matches be if weigh-ins were all conducted on fight night?

[Yogi007]

If they has weigh ins just a few hours before the fight, it would be much better. You wouldn't have huge people that have the ability to drain themselves, doing it just so they can beat up on little people.

[Brother Jay]

if im not mistaken same day weigh ins were changed to the current system to protect the health of the fighter. some fighters would drain themselves so much to make weight and wouldn't be able to rehydrate themselves sufficiently by fight time, leading to serious injuries.

i may be wrong. someone correct me if so.

Agreed.

Then those fighters shouldn't drain themselves.

Here's the point:

If you hurt yourself draining down to 135, and then come in weighing 147lbs for a LW bout, then you shouldn't be fighting at LW. You should be competing at WW.

In all honesty, if the guy who came in for a LW bout weighed 147, and his opponent only rehydrated up to 135, we have a LW fighting a WW, but no one sees it that way because the fight was sold as two solid LWs going at it.

The fighter who rehydrates above the division limit should simply compete in another division.

Don't ya think?

[Brother Jay]

Hmmm...I think this would motivate guys to take much better care of themselves in the off-season, instead of gaining a crazy amount of weight. I don't understand how guys can walk around 160-170 and make 135/140 (i.e. Rios, Hatton). It would motivate guys to fight at weight classes that would not leave them severely drained cuz they wouldn't have almost 1 day and a half to rehydrate. It would separate the dedicated from the slackers imo.

Exactly!

BHOP maintains his fighting weight all year round.

He calls it "supreme discipline".

Your point about Hatton is well taken.

It would clean up the sport and show who is really formidable at any given weight class except for HW.

Good points, my man.

[-Spinal-]

I don't agree.

If this were true, then there would NEVER be any need for a catchweight.

If what you wrote was true, then Mayweather should be able to beat Vitali Klitschko.

There is ABOSLUTELY NO DOUBT that Mayweather is the more skillful of the two, but there is no way that I believe that Mayweather is beating Vitali unless someone dopes up Vitali with some sort of tranquilizer before the match.

Would you put JMM up against Kirkland?

No.

Weight has EVERYTHING to do with it. If it didn't, divisions would be pointless.

There would be one division and the best would be the champion.

Doesn't work that way in ANY combat sport except for the UFC in the early days. There were no weight classes. You see that format only lasted for a short period.

Divisions give men of similar size a chance to showcase their stuff. Without them there would be no matches. Only slaughters.

There was never any chance for Ricardo Lopez to defeat Mike Tyson under Marquis of Queensbury.

So I must disagree.

Damn, you OD'ed man, that's too much of a weight disparity. There's a limit, I do believe that a guy weighing 140s-150s can win against a less skilled, defensively flawed guy who's 170-180.


For example, is it really out of the question for Floyd to come in at 150 and be able to beat a 180lbs Adrien Diaconu, Edison Miranda, Allan Green or Yusaf Mack?

It's not out of the question. In fact, I see no doubt in my mind that Floyd would actually be the favorite to beat all 4 of them. The skill disparity between Floyd and those 4 is way too much, height, size, and reach won't be able to help them.

[-Spinal-]

A HW vs a 140-150 pounder is just too much. That would be anywhere from a 90-100+ pound disadvantage. I have sparred a HW before, out of curiosity, and i'm better than him but his power was just too much for me. I was 138 at the time, all I could do was cut up his lips. He knocked me down twice, like glove grazing the canvas type of KD and the other KD was like the Floyd-Marquez KD, in 1 round. Basically I said, no mas after that. I hit him with my best shots right in the center of his face and lips and he took them well, I managed to red his face up and cut him in the one round we sparred but that's all I did. That was 5 years ago. I'm sure I would put up a better fight now but still lose. He lost weight now, he's at 190, i'm at 150+, compared to my 138 to his 230 when we first sparred.

[Mohammedini]

Sorry but this **** is just ******ed!
Fans who have never stepped in the ring and think same day weigh ins are good.

Same day weigh ins are fuc'king dangerous and would cause more deaths in the ring.
People will still cut weight but now they won't recover from the dehydration.
This is the classic arm chair oppinion from dumb fans.
Sorry because same day weigh ins are fuc'king ****** and would cause increase in brain damage and deaths.

You can't even spar dehydrated how the fuc'k are you able to go 12 rounds?
The body have no time to recover.

Trust me there are a lot more fighters you don't realize that cut weight.
Not only these so called huge freaks.

Extremely short sighted!

[Mohammedini]

ooh and Many more fighters would be forced to fight HW or cruiser weight, making the LHW and SMW div empty.
God look!
Same with the MW div

[dibzvincent143]

this is a nice idea.it would all be fair and square. size wouldn't be an issue.. but those who are wanting to be great or are climbing from weight to weight would be tough.

[polarcub]

So you're saying that a 30lb difference isn't going to be abig deal?

Because that's exactly what he wrote.

You did read HIS post before critiquing mine, right?

You're not worth arguing with, but I just found it amusing that you could read something twice and still walk away as ignorant as when you arrived.

you are insanely ******ed


Prime Mike Tyson 216 vs Chris Arreola 250

Who wins
tell me

that's what he was saying. A great smaller man beat up a average bigger man.


Obviously Chavez Jr isn't average, but his theory is correct

[EdMon917]

Evenly matched and better for the sport.