Should same day weigh in's be mandatory?

[.!WAR MIKEY!.]

I agree but why can't we as fans know? I like how they tell us reach,arm length, height, weight. It just gives us some extra information on the fight.

cause its not really a static #,

some reweigh in with their cloths, some strip back down, some re-weigh in with their shoes etc. Only some Organzations try to enforce it etc etc its not like a real weigh in.

[Johnston]

cause its not really a static #,

some reweigh in with their cloths, some strip back down, some re-weigh in with their shoes etc. Only some Organzations try to enforce it etc etc its not like a real weigh in.

True.. They would have to make it more like the official weigh ins, which probably creates some extra unnecessary problems

[j0zef]

Yes. The long period between the weigh in and the fight drives me crazy, as well as the possible inconsistencies in the timing. I forget who it was, but due to one weigh in being at like 8am, there was close to 40 hours between the weigh in and the fight - ridiculous.

IMO the official weigh in should be in the early afternoon if the fight is at night - 12 hours max each and every time. And then have an unofficial weigh in for all fighters an hour or two before the actual fight.

[GhostofDempsey]

I like the idea of rehydration clauses better. Even during the days of same-day weigh-ins, fighters could still dry out 10-15 lbs by not drinking any fluids for 24 hours prior. The rule should be, a fighter cannot weigh at or above the next highest weight class. So a fight at 160 would mean you could only weight 167 before entering the ring.

[Redd Foxx]

I am for it. The only one it protects are weight bullies. Transparency is good.

[4truth]

Would solve some problems and create others. One thing it would definitely do is have a lot of fighters moving up a weight-class.

[New England]

two weigh ins? guys will just show up to the fight dehydrated and for a paycheck.


they moved to a 30 hours weigh in primarily to make an event out of the weigh in for big fights in las vegas. problem is that most of these guys are used to drying out and putting weght back on, leglly or otherwise. adn they'll still do it even if you make them weigh in on the day of the fight.

another thing you'll be doing is giving an advantage to younger guys whose bodies can take the weight loss better than older guys.


it'd be nice, but i can't see guys just going cold turkey from rehydrating to fighting at fight night weight. same day fighters also fought in an era where guys were more active and stayed near their fighting weights. PPV and premium TV fighters will never fight 10X a year again, that's just not how the sport is monetized in the era of premium TV and PPV. they can only promote 2 ppv a year, and the rop rung of ppv fightesr often fight once a year.

[Gigantes]

its perfect the way it is now.

you make the weight, you make the weight who cares how much they blow up, theirs advantages and disadvantages to everything.

Yea I don't care how much someone blows up if they're able to. But what's the reasoning to not do it?

[Gigantes]

Yea I don't get that myself to be fair although I'm not in the boxers position. HBO was on top of that more than most back in the day & it always struck me as highly odd that some guy would deny them a fight night weight in those minority of times someone would. Seems like they could just require that being done as part of the purse so if you don't weigh in then you lose x $ or something.

But trying to consider this from a boxer POV I guess some might not want the potential fan, pundit & announcer debate if they gained too much weight.

I'd bet some of it is just a fighter trying to get "in character" for the fight & not wanting to deal with some HBO or whatever intern carrying a scale around while he's in "fight" mood.

Probably other things, but those are the first two that come to mind.

cool good points.

[Gigantes]

I agree but why can't we as fans know? I like how they tell us reach,arm length, height, weight. It just gives us some extra information on the fight.

exactly, all it is, is just extra info for us. like you said they give all of that other stuff, what's the problem with fight night weight? To me it just seems like they are trying to hide something.

For example, like Canelo when he used to say he wasn't a middleweight so he could duck GGG, and yet he never wanted to show his fight night weight (since he knew he actually weighed more than GGG on fight night)