Obviously the other weight divisions will as they battle desperately to get under a weight limit before going nuts to put on the extra beef in the next 24 hours but I wondered if there was much difference to a heavyweight and if their diet would alter much.
Not every fighter at the lower weights gain weight after a weigh in, Mayweather doesn't as far as I know, but the vast majority do. A lot of fighters at cruiser weight weigh in at their fighting weight because most who have to boil down to 200 lbs just compete as a small heavy weight. Do they change their diet? They should but a lot of them just come for the pay check these days in my opinion.
Valuev sweated down to 33 tonnes to make the weign in. He re-hydrated up to 45 tonnes on fight night.
Pretty funny! But in answer to the OP....... NO, and why would they. Perhaps a lb or so, but most HW's don't care how they look in their shorts, and that would be the only reason for them to slim down for a weighin.:rofl
I was never suggesting they would be slimming down for a weigh in. I just wondered that with all the hard work done prior to the weigh in and a possible change in diet and you may get an extra 6 or 7 lbs from the big fellas. Cheers for the replies though
Ali, Tyson, these guys might turn pro around 200, but they'd end up taking on a bit of weight and fighting at about 220-225 (Tyson, in his prime, hit 220 plus twice anyway), 230 on the bad nights. It's where the money is. Usyk will be an interesting test of all this hypothetical madness. Clearly 200lbs naturally, it'll be interesting to see what poundage he takes when he steps up, and how he does.
Depends on what he does in a day. Some guys play a bit of light sports, handball or basketball or whatever. Some guys do light padwork. But guys like Lennox Lewis stay as still as possible, drink water, sleep and eat their meals. So yeah, those guys would weigh more if you stuck them on the scales than they did at the weigh in. That's what happens when you go from training yourself to a quill to purely conserving. So it depends on the heavyweight and what he does between the weigh in and the bell.