Cutting Weight Is A Skill

chavez jr got caught using a diuretic before and he left before being tested last night

 

It's not cheating insofar as it's legal according the current rules, but it's worth acting to what extent it's a skill practiced by actual fighters and not by their physical trainers and whether it's a skill we want being as influential and as celebrated as it is at the moment in the sport.

 

but weight does not matter - ask anyone in classic.

 

guys who r on that shite r lazy *******s. dude gets drunk while in training camp. chavez is quite a character

 

Weight classes are to ensure fairness inside the ropes. This isn't a hard concept. It makes for unsafe fights that shouldn't be sanctioned because of weight differences AT FIGHT TIME. You wanna have a weight cutting contest fine, join the skinny ass skags at beauty pageants. They just pull each others hair and **** like that.

 

A more muscular individual isn't going to be able to cut weight as easily as a softer individual, it's to do with water retention in muscles. So I'd call it an ability rather than a skill.

 

It may be a skill, but in a sport based on weight classifications its potentially unbalancing and dangerous for both guys in the long run.

5 pounds is an acceptable difference for medium sized guys, but 11-15 pounds difference in weight on fight night is just way way too much, it is defeating the whole point of weight classes. I really don't want to see a lot of Gatti-Gamache type mismatches, and Pac-Margarito was a lot more dangerous than people think.

Some guys cut a lot of water, some guys don't fluctuate ever. I would be very surprised if Floyd ever weighed over 161 pounds in his life (so far) whether he was training for a fight or not.

Heavyweights are so big and strong in theory size doesn't matter "as much" over 200 lbs, but we all instinctively understand that the size of the Klitschkos and their coordination is making it very hard for a small guy to dominate the division, perhaps almost unfairly.

 

I don't have a problem with guys rehydrating x amount of lbs as long as they are playing by the rules.

 

And what's funny is some people are crying over Chavez while some claim Pac was cherry picking much bigger men. Pick a side for Christ sakes.

 

I've always been on Pac's side. If you are a great small fighter, a shot mediocre bigger fighter should still give you tons of problems. He should NEVER have been in the same ring with Margarito, even though he pulled it off (turns out he's actually better at fighting slower big guys, who would have thought?)

 

Why can't people say Jr was DRAINED?

why only now is it a case of "he was too big"

 

Stuff like this happens

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mannnn that was brutal

 

They could put weigh ins back to day of fight, as they should be. Problem is monitoring fighters. I think a boxer should show he is within a certain range of target weight some time before a fight, say a week. Cutting weight drastically is what causes many problems. How Gatti put on 19 pounds in one day is strange, some questioned if weigh in was done right. I wonder myself.

 

Cut weight by cutting carbs, such as Adkins Diet. Bodybuilders do it all the time.................