Fights when a severely weight drained fighter won.

[therealpugilist]

Jones Tarver 1?

beat me to it first one that came to mind....too bad it cost him the ability to perform at the top level ever again

[therealpugilist]

Cotto's career at 140.

another good call


Cotto looked so much better at 147

it pissed me off how they were feeding him former lightweights and jr lightweights when he was coming up

guys like Victoriano Sosa and Rocky Martinez

Cotto look dry, complexion faded, and protruding cheek bones at 140.

[New England]

rios vs murray takes the cake for me. dude was a f#cking zombie at 135. never seen a kid who gets that big fight at a weight that small. dude looked like a short, chubby middlewegiht. he'd put on 20 lbs in 30 hours! that's probably not even possible without diuretics and IV fluids.


he looked like utter garbage in the lead in and during the fight [looked like he could hardly stand up in his media workouts], but his opponent was so badly outmatched and undersized that he beat the living daylights out of him anyway


good examples of this phenomenon are usually modern fighters who cut a ton of weight. chavez, vs lee. mikey garcia vs roman martinez.

[Adonis Creed]

Brandon Rios-Murray

Brandon Rios vs everyone he's beat

Rios/Acosta


Rios/Murray

rios vs murray takes the cake for me. dude was a f#cking zombie at 135. never seen a kid who gets that big fight at a weight that small. dude looked like a short, chubby middlewegiht. he'd put on 20 lbs in 30 hours! that's probably not even possible without diuretics and IV fluids.


he looked like utter garbage in the lead in and during the fight [looked like he could hardly stand up in his media workouts], but his opponent was so badly outmatched and undersized that he beat the living daylights out of him anyway


good examples of this phenomenon are usually modern fighters who cut a ton of weight. chavez, vs lee. mikey garcia vs roman martinez.

all good post but...

What fights did a guy kill himself to make weight and still pull off a W?

I dont mean mismatches like Mikey vs Juanma or Rios vs Murray. I mean toss up fights like if Dawson would have beat Ward or DLH beat Pac.

What are fights when a guy drained himself and then beat someone who is on they're level?

[Luilun]

What fights did a guy kill himself to make weight and still pull off a W?

I dont mean mismatches like Mikey vs Juanma or Rios vs Murray. I mean toss up fights like if Dawson would have beat Ward or DLH beat Pac.

Nonito Donaire guy weighed like 140 when fighting at 115 118

[soul_survivor]

About Hopkins DeLa Hoya . Hopkins routinely came into the ring at 158 ,157. Remember he said he could make 154. Kind of sounds like a hypocrite now doesn't he. When criticizing GGG, HE was pumping up His fighter Canelo.

I wouldn't count Hopkins as weight drained either.

[soul_survivor]

Brandon Rios-Murray

wtf? Rios didn't even bother making weight and re-hydrated to God knows what. *** outta here with he was severely weight drained.

[Derranged]

Rios-Abrile but that decision stunk.

[hoe_train]

Jones, king of the world back when, beat on that fake ****** hood rate tarver like he owed him some pees and he was drained as ***

[Reloaded]

Oscar vs Manny was the worst case of a drained fighter Ive seen in 50 yrs of following boxing , Manny out weighed him on fight night and Oscar could only gain 2 lbs from the weighin and needed IV fluids to do that , not Mannys fault but Oscar was a dead man walking .