If catchweights are suppossed to benefit the smaller fighter...

smaller fighter with 11 loss of 13 on high profile catchweight fights.

 

Are you suggesting that's somehow proof that catchweights are not put in place to benefit the smaller fighter? Why would a smaller fighter ask for one then?

 

cw are agreed upon in the hope of evening up the size differential, though the result on the 13 high profile fight set forth does not reflect that at all.

boxing should go back to same day weigh in for fights.

 

And who would stand to benefit by "evening up the size differential"? :think

See, there is no "if". Catchweights are made to benefit the smaller guy, and just because he loses the fight anyway doesn't erase the fact that the catchweight was to his benefit.

 

fairer question would be, will the benefit of evening up the size differential through catchweight be enough to make a fight between a smaller fighter against a bigger fighter fair??

look, what fighters and everybody (and even i) seem to think that if a smaller fighter ask the bigger fighter to drop down in weight, it becomes an even fight as far as size differential goes.

the 13 high profile fight the TS produced doesn't show that. clearly, size still matters.

 

Maybe try venturing outside the "Pac" and Floyd threads once in a while. I hear people complaining about other fighters being drained quite often.

 

True but why is it always considered pacs fault? it was a cherrypick backfiring, oscar ****ed his own weight up and it cost him greatly.

 

No, history shows that bigger guys beat smaller guys more often than not. Generally speaking, a fighter fighting at 147 usually walks around quite a bit heavier than that and has to cut weight to make the 147 limit before he weighs in, so how in the **** would it benefit him to have to come in two pounds lighter than what he normally has to weigh in at? It doesn't... At all.

The smaller fighter should have the good sense to know that he shouldn't bulk all the way up to the weight limit if that extra weight will only slow them down and hurt their stamina, so if the extra weight is taking a toll they have nobody to blame but themselves.

 

Let me ask you two (one) guy(s) this

If Martinez fights Manny Pacquiao

at 168 lbs

Who does it benefit more, Pacquiao, or Martinez?

Who would have the advantage?

 

Most fighters drain to make their division's weight limit as there's a clear advantage in being the naturally bigger guy but the further they go down, the more that advantage is nullified by them being weakened and having to focus on cutting weight rather than working on their craft.