What's so great about fighters draining themselves to beat up on smaller fighters?

[HitmanTommy]

Fighters nearly killing themselves draining weight to get into divisions well below their natural weight to beat up on smaller fighters.

Do these type of wins seem tainted to anyone else?

[JohnCastellanos]

I always thought that anybody could beat up on a smaller guy but if you want to be a real P4P fighter you need to be willing to fight bigger guys outside of your weight class! I never understood guys like GGG and Errol Spence anywhere near a P4P list!

[Thuglife Nelo]

most Rigondeaux fans said he was always a Bantamweight, not even a Big Bantamweight. A BIG Bantamweight would be a medium sized Super Bantamweight, more or less. Look at all of Rigo’s opppnents at 122lbs, they mostly all were bigger than him. Leo Santa, Framptoon, Quigg, Selby, these guys super drained to 122lbs imo. Guys like Donaire and Amagasa dwarfed Rigo.

The point I’m making is that Rigo WAS SOOO GOOD that Lomachenko didn’t even give him a catchweight at 124lbs. Rigo was a Lineal Champ and higher on the P4P list yet Loma’s team casually ignored that, basically a Top Rank strategic flop. Arum seeing what Rigo did to Donaire or Loma losing to Salido.. it’s understandable that Arum would have a high insecurity with Rigondeaux.

This is Rigo, easily a 118lb fighter whom was forced to move to 130lbs INCLUDING A REHYDRATION CLAUSE the morning of for Loma not exceeding 140lbs.

So we’re talking about a 118-122lb fighter worried about Loma being 145lbs against Rigo on fight night. Amagasa was like 142lbs against Rigo on fight night.

Yes this is how good Rigo is.

[Floyd is TBE]

Tell this to Canelo fantards. The Mexicans are even bragging about how Canelo would beat 40yr Floyd at 160.

[boliodogs]

Fighters nearly killing themselves draining weight to get into divisions well below their natural weight to beat up on smaller fighters.

Do these type of wins seem tainted to anyone else?

Not to me. A win is a win and they are following the rules. As you say they are draining themselves or in other words handicapping themselves to fight smaller fighters. They will have no advantage over the smaller fighter and may not beat them up because the smaller fighter won't be weight drained. They would probably be better off and perform better if they fought at their natural weight. As long as both fighters make weight it's a fair fight. Blame the ****** rule of weighing in 32 hours before the fight instead of 8 hours before the fight but don't blame the boxers who obey that rule. It's not cheating or weight bullying.

[HeadBodyBodyBody]

NOT a fan of catch-weights, and
would PREFER same-day weigh-ins