Fight day weigh ins need to be used and enforced.

The points you are making are right and make sense. However, there is the other side of that coin, in which fighters who come fight week find themselves not down to that contracted weight and then facing big fines - being stripped - etc , will dehydrate to avoid penalties and in effect enter the ring in a dangerous state.

Atleast with the day before weigh ins, fighters SHOULDN'T be entering the ring dehydrated.....which has been determined to be one of the biggest factors in causing major and long term injuries (if not ring deaths).

That is the conundrum.

 

I know what you mean, but fighters who rehydrate to, say 182lbs, could not possibly enter the ring one hour after having weighed in at 168lbs, for example.

So they would have to go up to 175lbs at least.

 

the system is fine. everyone has the same opportunity to work it to his advantage. you decide where your best chance of success lies. ability to cut weight is no different of an advantage as ability to take a punch, which is also tied to how far you stray from your optimal weight.

 

This is also a fair conclusion.

 

Someone making ****ing sense.:thumbsup

 

More sense:good Good post:deal