weight classes abolished!!!

[Ray Corso]

Your now seeing that weight classes are being demolished by the in between "junior" & "super" weight divisions serving as a bridge to jump two weight classes without actually competing in the class!
Its ALL about the money but how does a fighter "earn" the right to fight for a title when he's NEVER competed in the weight class!

Same day weighins with 10 hours to rehydrate with 2 meals and fluids! Then no one will be able to ballon 20 pounds over said weight limit!
Time for the federations to earn their money (hahahaha) but if this action was taken you'd see the correct fighters in the correct weight classes. Nothing like an even playing field, especially in Boxing!


bless all the fighters with safety tonite!! Ray Corso

[Poet682006]

Your now seeing that weight classes are being demolished by the in between "junior" & "super" weight divisions serving as a bridge to jump two weight classes without actually competing in the class!
Its ALL about the money but how does a fighter "earn" the right to fight for a title when he's NEVER competed in the weight class!

Same day weighins with 10 hours to rehydrate with 2 meals and fluids! Then no one will be able to ballon 20 pounds over said weight limit!
Time for the federations to earn their money (hahahaha) but if this action was taken you'd see the correct fighters in the correct weight classes. Nothing like an even playing field, especially in Boxing!


bless all the fighters with safety tonite!! Ray Corso

This is something I've been complaining about for years. In fact, I don't recognize the "in between" divisions at all. As far as I'm concerned it's Old-School Eight or it don't rate.

Poet

[king Ketchel]

sadly boxing has become all about weight cutting and using athleticism. bosers are spending more time worrying about their ring attire than their craft. stinks!

[Rockin']

8 weight classes, 16 weight classes.... what ever. Fighters have been cutting weight for as long as there have been weight divisions. It all comes down to safety and there are two ways to look at it. Is it safer to have a fighters official weigh-in just an hour before the bout to risk having a dehydrated, walking dead man who is drained because he had to make weight stepping into the ring. Or is it safer to weigh them the night before giving them a sure chance of rehydration and proper nutrition only to see one guy balloon up 20% of his weight in that one day and pummel what is obviously a smaller man in the ring? (Gatti/Gamache)


I say go official weigh-in the day before and then a restriction should be put on rehydration after the weigh-in. Say guys Welter and below are allowed an 8% increase in body weight and maybe 10-12% for junionr middle and above.

We learned to cut weight in the amateurs, it's just part of the game. But if we had rehydration limits after the offricial weigh-ins for our pros atleast our fighters would be skipping rope in garbage bags to shed some excess water and nutrients instead of shedding the last little bit of life that their bodie contains.

Say 3 hours before fight time you have a rehydration weighing. If a guys over then he will have time to drain out the excess weight without hampering his body or his abilities. Everybody fights strong. If a fighter can't skip some rope because he gorged himkself with water and food to add some weight than he just wasn't in shape to begin with. We all did the 'rope thing' and it ain't nothin if you came ready to fight.
................ Rockin'

[Twako]

i think having more weight classes right now than before is better. fighters cut weight anyway whatever class they're in. without intermediate weight classes, fighters who barely gets over a specific weight class would cut a lot of weight to get to the next lower class to possibly get an advantage but consequently endanger himself in doing so by too much dehydration.

[boliodogs]

I don't remember any problems or any fighters gaining more than a few pounds in the good old days of same day weigh in.The should have never changed it but they did and they won't go back to same day weigh ins even though they should.

[Poet682006]

i think having more weight classes right now than before is better. fighters cut weight anyway whatever class they're in. without intermediate weight classes, fighters who barely gets over a specific weight class would cut a lot of weight to get to the next lower class to possibly get an advantage but consequently endanger himself in doing so by too much dehydration.

If they're going to be ****** and dehydrate themselves right before a fight then they deserve what they get. Fight in your natural weight class and stop trying to cheat and get an illegal advantage over opponents.

Poet