They should make it illegal for you to come in 10lbs over the weight limit

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10 lbs across all divisions wouldn't make sense since 10 lbs is massive at lw and irrelevant at cw, but I wouldn't mind a formula such as:

Weight (night of fight) shall not exceed (interval between sanctioned division and next division up * 2).

So welterweights (154-147=7*2=14+147=161) couldn't exceed 161 on the night of the fight and so on.

It would be more strict in a perfect world but we all know the fighters would just starve themselves until right before their walkouts and end up dying in the ring if the threshold was too tight.

[gdub27]

avoiding to be weigh on fight night should be illegal

You do realize that weigh in is just for TV don't you? It is an HBO creation, like measuring arm pit to fist. NO commission requires it.

[Derranged]

Freaking sickening. Salido had literally no intention of keeping his belt, fighting fair in any way or coming in on weight. He just wanted to say he "won" against Loma. Loma should call for a rematch to spark that motha****a the motha**** out.

I just watched the fight again. Salido won 7-5. But from the fourth round on, I counted 45 low blows from Salido. He was warned only twice. Of course some of those were out of the ref's view, but many were right in front of him.

Horrible job by Laurence Cole and Salido for that matter. Of those low blows he landed, more than half seemed intentional.

[FrankieClutch]

There are two sides to the coin, though. They are KILLING themselves to make weight, and it usually catches up with them

[Barcham]

You do realize that weigh in is just for TV don't you? It is an HBO creation, like measuring arm pit to fist. NO commission requires it.

Who cares if a commission requires it? It adds some valuable information to the fight. I like to know what a fighter weighs when he is in the ring. I like to know that a MW actually weighs 180 in the ring against his opponent who weighs 165 or so.

I think weigh ins the day before a fight are fine as long as the amount of weight they are permitted to put back on is limited to X number of pounds. And the final weigh in should be done in the dressing room before the fight, not the morning of the fight. Any fighter who weighs over the agreed upon or regulated limit should be penalized by a loss of a percentage of his purse which will go to his opponent. Say 10% per pound over the limit. I like 80sFighter's idea of how to calculate the permitted weight limits.

Strict enforcement of such rules would result in huge changes as to which fighters fight in which division.

I would also pass a rule stating that no catch weights are permitted in title fights while I was at it.

[Tom Cruise]

http://www.mmamania.com/2014/3/25/5547814/association-ringside-physicians-recommendations-mma-same-day-weigh-ins-dangerous-health-problems

Seems MMA had similar discussions

[Helm]

Agree

This weight thing is fckuing bull$*it

one day you make 147 and the next day you fight at 160....it should not be allowed especially at lower weight classes

[nacho daddy]

bunch of frauds with no skill who are taking dieurticis and doing anything possible to come in at the weight then baloon up 20 lbs

see mikey garcia

see keith thurman

you put these guys in their regular weight class what would happen to these so called "skilled fighters"\

they would get sparked the **** out

I am all for that.
making weight the way it is set up is a disgrace. fine them 30 thousand for every pound over weight come fight nite

[nacho daddy]

That's the first time I've seen Thurman weigh that much on fight night. Which was 160 against Guerrero.

He was 153 in the ring against Bundu.

and that is why Thurman ran from the powder puff puncher bandu

[nacho daddy]

a weight limit after the weight limit?

LOL

you shouldn't try to mess with ppl rehydration. it's dangerous.

if a guy can make weight it's on him how much he wants to cut.

the day before weigh in and rehydrating has saved lives imo.

no it don't. the brain has a cushion of liquid around it and when dried out it is gone and one day is not enough to replenish it. that is why you see more brain damaged fighters at the lower classes then hvyweights