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

[Brother Jay]

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

How competitive would matches be if making weight meant actually weighing the division limit coming into the fight?

Would that dynamic reveal who is good and who is great?

Think about it.

I like my boxing as fair and equal as possible. I hate the handicapping aspect that has become so prominent in the last decade.

If a boxer were to go up to face a 154lb champion, that champion would actually weigh 154lbs in the ring and not come in at 170lbs+ on fight night.

The measure of a boxer's chances and formidability would then lie in his heart, skills, stamina, durability and determination instead of just weight disparities.

A lot of people would be against a move like that because many of their favorite fighters would soon look very beatable. Hardcore and casual fans alike would see what crucial role that weight disparities play in the rating of any given boxer's ability and ranking.

What do forum members think about this matter?

[BoxingGenius27]

I love this idea.

Size would no longer be an excuse unless one guy was taller than the other. That's about it.

Everything else should be fairly even.

[Atreyu Khalil]

I love this idea.

Size would no longer be an excuse unless one guy was taller than the other. That's about it.

Everything else should be fairly even.

I don't like the day before weigh-ins.

[Discipline]

It's a great idea. It'd actually produce a better crop of boxers in my opinion.

[-Spinal-]

Honestly, a very skillful, great boxer, will beat the bigger less skilled, defensively flawed man no matter what.

So it doesn't matter to me.

Weight being used in a fight to claim why the win was so great[Pac vs Margarito], is just BS. Who cares if a punching bag weighs 50 more lbs than you? Is a punching bag really a threat because it weighs a lot more than you? A punching bag is just gonna hang there so you can tee of on it, it's harmless.

Put Floyd in with a 180lb punching bag like Chavez Jr, while Floyd just weighs 150lbs..Floyd would shut out Chavez Jr and probably force a stoppage from how badly he'd beat him.

Weight is not an issue for me. When I use to weigh 140lbs, I would spar guys who were 170-180lbs, it didn't matter to me because I was better than them and I knew I was better than them. When you know you're good and you're the best, you shouldn't care about weight.

What you should care about is style. I would not fight a 170-180lbs guy who knows how to move around, has very good handspeed and boxing ability, he would kick my ass. But when it's just come forward fighters who are there to be hit and are slow as hell, I don't care about weight honestly i'd even go up to 190lbs.

Weights don't make fights, Styles make fights.

[Ko King 212]

A lot of dudes would get their azzes handed to them. No more sucking down to fight smaller dudes.

[Russian Crushin]

Its a great idea that needs to come back

That way at MW, you'll have MWs fighting and not Chavez at 181

The guys would be evenly sized and we wouldnt have to worry about grossly outweighed opponents.

Your weight class should be the weight you fight at, not the weight you weighed in at 30 hours before hand

[Kenny MF Powers]

Honestly, a very skillful, great boxer, will beat the bigger less skilled, defensively flawed man no matter what.

So it doesn't matter to me.

Weight being used in a fight to claim why the win was so great[Pac vs Margarito], is just BS. Who cares if a punching bag weighs 50 more lbs than you? Is a punching bag really a threat because it weighs a lot more than you? A punching bag is just gonna hang there so you can tee of on it, it's harmless.

Put Floyd in with a 180lb punching bag like Chavez Jr, while Floyd just weighs 150lbs..Floyd would shut out Chavez Jr and probably force a stoppage from how badly he'd beat him.

Weight is not an issue for me. When I use to weigh 140lbs, I would spar guys who were 170-180lbs, it didn't matter to me because I was better than them and I knew I was better than them. When you know you're good and you're the best, you shouldn't care about weight.

What you should care about is style. I would not fight a 170-180lbs guy who knows how to move around, has very good handspeed and boxing ability, he would kick my ass. But when it's just come forward fighters who are there to be hit and are slow as hell, I don't care about weight honestly i'd even go up to 190lbs.

Weights don't make fights, Styles make fights.

This completely.

Green sent.

[brick wall]

it's better i think...fighters would just concentrate on purely conditioning without having to worry about weight reduction. no size advantage on fight night so the better skilled and prepared fighter always has the advantage.

[Russian Crushin]

Honestly, a very skillful, great boxer, will beat the bigger less skilled, defensively flawed man no matter what.

So it doesn't matter to me.

Weight being used in a fight to claim why the win was so great[Pac vs Margarito], is just BS. Who cares if a punching bag weighs 50 more lbs than you? Is a punching bag really a threat because it weighs a lot more than you? A punching bag is just gonna hang there so you can tee of on it, it's harmless.

Put Floyd in with a 180lb punching bag like Chavez Jr, while Floyd just weighs 150lbs..Floyd would shut out Chavez Jr and probably force a stoppage from how badly he'd beat him.

Weight is not an issue for me. When I use to weigh 140lbs, I would spar guys who were 170-180lbs, it didn't matter to me because I was better than them and I knew I was better than them. When you know you're good and you're the best, you shouldn't care about weight.

What you should care about is style. I would not fight a 170-180lbs guy who knows how to move around, has very good handspeed and boxing ability, he would kick my ass. But when it's just come forward fighters who are there to be hit and are slow as hell, I don't care about weight honestly i'd even go up to 190lbs.

Weights don't make fights, Styles make fights.

Thats such bullshtt that keeps getting thrown up around here all the time

Comparing a big medicore fighter to one of the best fighters who is smaller

Why dont you compare who would win between Floyd and Ward, since Ward is JCC jr's size, even smaller? Oh i know why, because it wouldnt support your "theory"