Rehydration impossible

[boliodogs]

So how does canelo go from looking skeletal at previous weighins to skeletor the following day?

Canelo always looks good at the weigh in and in the ring. Sure he gains some weight like almost all boxers below heavyweight do but you are exaggerating the difference of him at the weigh and then later in the ring.

[A.K]

This got to be chollas aka revalated alt

[Banko Villas]

You don't re hydrate "over night".

You weigh in at 9am.......1pm......3pm.

If your weigh time is 9am and bell time is 10pm the next day you have over 36 hours to re hydrate. At 1pm less time and a weigh in at 3pm a little less time.

Fighters and their trainers know the fighters metabolize, they know what they can accomplish and what might be detrimental.
Your cutting fluids so to replenish them alomng with a few solid meals is a normal schedule.
Years ago same day weigh ins produced 6 to 15 pounds depending on the "cut" ratio.
Late in his middleweight career LaMotta could add 15-18lbs pounds from 8am to 10pm.

Mind over matter and a lot of sacrifices and chewing & spitting on the rope by the furnace.

Ray

How well-documented is this superhuman feat by LaMotta?

[Banko Villas]

?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????Like every fight where they show fight nite weights.Shoot I remember Gatti weighin in at 159 after weigin 140 with Gamace.Tons of exsample.

But can any of the examples be proven?

[PensionKiller]

Well when a fighter dehydrates to a point that their face is very drawn in after doing treadmill work in a sweatsuit and also possibly not eating for at least 12 hours to sometimes just a small fruit/Only water for longer, it's not surprising.

Remember they are doing what a normal human such as us would not be able to do. Get down to 5-8 % Body fat and put our bodies in a state and then recover the next day to fight... There's a reason why fights are often 2 or 3 max a year at the highest level, there's a lot of strain on the body hence why some become very injury prone/ill.

In the 36 hours or so from weigh in to fight night, I would not be surprised if a fighter has drank 4-8 litres of liquids and eaten quite a bit of food to recover (About 1 to 2 gallons) depending on weight class.

Many at the top level are fine tuned athletes who look at 1% to 10% gains in anyway possible. They aren't some random person.

[john l]

But can any of the examples be proven?

Yup just watch ALMOST ANY HBO fight before last couple years after guys that put on HUGE amounts of weight 15+ quit giving HBO chance to weigh them.Really its COMMON knowledge MMA guys do it also.Funny part about that was when May/McG was going on and all the MMA guys we saying "Yea unlike boxing we put on a lot of weight after weigh in"Where the HE LL do they think they got it lol.