IV rehydration ban - how do you feel about it, and how do they enforce it?

[Elroy The Great]

Lmao What? This is one of the dumbest things I've read on here.

no rush with the reply. smart boxing fellas like yourself cant seem to answer. and ive asked many times.

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

im not sure how I feel about it, what fighters do it and if I like those fighters its okay if I dont fuck them cheaters.

[DoktorSleepless]

How does the****utic recommended mean better you ******?

When you recommend something over something, it's not because it's better?

[Robbie Barrett]

So they recommend something that's worst?

Well there's other things to consider like infections etc, not just how well it rehydrates. It's about weighing up the pros and cons.

[Cheek busting]

Possibly the ******est move boxing has made! re-hydration IV's are not banned in other sports! and this is because they are used only for the safety of the athletes! i believe they are used during cycling tours, and also during soccer tournaments! they are only replacing electrolytes and maybe vitamin B12.....

I presume the boxing officials have done this to deter, certain fighters from draining too much weight! But there are always going to be boxers that are desperate enough to drain massive amounts of weight leading up to a weigh in! It has been theorized that the possibility of brain damage is increased during a fight, when fighters are dehydrated! Have you noticed the way most of the boxers who have received career ending injures are all at the lower weight classes...? (Where there is a culture of draining weight! this is one of the major reason's why Heavyweight's can have longer careers!)....

They banned them in UFC recently too.

That's why I figured I'd ask - what exactly are they trying to accomplish?

Good post.

[Cheek busting]

No, there are instances where one needed an I.V but if this has anything to do with Floyd, Floyd did it 14 times over the legal limit (750ML to the 50 ML).

Me asking didn't have anything to do with the whole Floyd debacle.

I just heard how UFC banned it too, so I was like WTF is going on here... WHY? In the most dangerous of sports with the risk of brain trauma, where they cut weight a day before the fight, would you ban the best technique to medically and properly rehydrate the body and brain?

I guess it's cause USADA, or VADA took over the drug testing protocols there as well.

But why would you want to do it so much? You can only be "so rehydrated" until you reach at point of diminishing returns, aye?

[Robbie Barrett]

They banned them in UFC recently too.

That's why I figured I'd ask - what exactly are they trying to accomplish?

Good post.

That's because UFC now has USADA testing. The USADA/WADA rules were created to cover all sports, athletes dehydrating themselves before competing is pretty unique to combat sports and the rules aren't tailored to them.

[Cheek busting]

Here's the full quote from the original WADA paper.


https://www.wada-ama.org/sites/defau...ons_3.0_EN.pdf

Interesting...

Wow, I assumed intravenous would definitely be more effective - guess not, doe.

I saw an interview with Johnny Hendricks where he talked about how much better IV rehydration was, and how when they banned it, it inhibited him from fully rehydrated by fight night.

Maybe it's one of those things where the placebo effect is in play - he believes it, so therefor it is.

[Cheek busting]

im not sure how I feel about it, what fighters do it and if I like those fighters its okay if I dont fuck them cheaters.

Hahah ayyyeeee! Fair enough my good man!!

[Cheek busting]

It's banned because it's a masking method, that's exactly how lance Armstrong beat tests, it's preferred to orally rehydrate and WADA has no scientific findings that IV is any better than oral, your not allowed to do it unless your floyd(usada are my b1tches) mayweather

Hmmm interesting...

Could you not just orally take the same chemicals to mask,, though?