How do boxers drop 20 pounds of water weight and not feel like ****?

Back in high school had one of the best wrestling and football programs in the country. Would Drop 12 lbs. It would make you feel weaker most of the time, but sometimes being hungry will make you ****ing mad (like insane). Depends on how you use it.

 

I cut a shitload of weight one time and in my fight I was zombie Oscar to my opponents pacman

 

12 lbs while uncomfortable as a cut, is actually not dramatic in comparison to what many guys cut. Many guys I knew personally were cutting 20 pounds or more. I routinely cut around 14-15 pounds, and it absolutely sucked every single time, but I'd be at a serious disadvantage if I didn't, as everyone was cutting weight. People abused the hell out of diuretics and **** too, you don't have all the testing to worry about.

 

Never used dieuretics...most of my weakness came from running way too much to cut weight. But my main point is...hunger drives people mad. Look at North Korea. People digging up and eating corpses. Makes you crazy

 

Yes, it absolutely does, but some guys will do anything to win in a competition. Any time you have a bunch of men competing, egos come into check, people do crazy stuff. Like I said, I knew a couple different people who nearly had their kidneys fail from such dramatic cuts, especially through diuretic abuse. There were guys who wouldn't eat anything except little ice chips three days before a match and such, and were abusing diuretics like crazy. There are ways of tricking your body to prevent it from rebelling, while cutting extremely dangerous amounts of water (which you probably know of being in wrestling, but I'm not gonna publicly share) to enable them to go beyond normal limits...

 

What in the entire hell are you saying? :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

Heavyweight boxers NEVER dehydrates! atschatschatschatsch
There isn't an upper limit!
Are you the same that claimed that Tyson lost to James Douglas because "he had to dehydrate to make weight"????!!!!!!!

 

Dehydration has ruined so many matches and boxers.
It has to been forbidden.
Just that, forbidden, by making the weight-ins at fight night, maximum 1 hour prior to the fight.
Dehydration is an absolute disgrace to boxing, it removes every meaning under weight classes, and permanently ruins boxer's healt and matches.

 

Your ideas do make sense, however, they are not plausible. You see, if they did weigh ins right before a fight, you'd have guys going into fights dehydrated. This would be especially true when you have guys moving down in weight classes to challenge people. Guys would still dehydrate themselves, you'd just have much more injuries from it. There is a reason they got rid of same day weigh ins, they directly contributed to the death of many boxers, whom had a low amount of fluid protecting their brain from being dehydrated. The guy Mancini wound up killing died for that exact reason... the sad thing is that with how much money is on the line, people are willing to risk their mental health for a match, so guys would still try to dehydrate as much as they could for an advantage... The only difference would be that their bodies would have no time to recover, so you'd frequently see tragic outcomes when a guy pushed it too far...

 

Thiago Alves MMA fighter...check THIS weight cut!

[url]http://www.mmamania.com/2012/3/2/2839067/ufc-fx-2-weigh-in-results-thiago-alves-gains-30-pounds-three-hours-dolce-diet[/url]

 

it takes a toll on there body thats why they dont last that long in the sport... its one of the secrets mayweather uses

 

No way, it is the exact opposite: NOBODY would dehydrate anymore, it would just be a complicated way to suicide.
Boxers dehydrates BECAUSE they have 24 hours to restore themself; while you are dehydrated, you are like at 30% of your overall physical/mental potential, even less considering things not measureble like the chin resistance;
It simply wouldn't have the slightly sense to dehydrate, just to enter the ring and being inevitabily KTFOED in just 1 or maximum 2 rounds by anybody, Malignaggi included.
Hence, every boxer wouldn't have the slightly advantage in dehydrating, being impossibilitate to rehydrate even farly;
hence, every boxer would come at fight night EXACTLY between the weight limits of his own category.

Hence, no more boxers would hurt themself with those techniques anymore, weight classes would finally means something, and we would have fights on which both the boxers can give it all without being mentally/physically debilitated or just in weight disadvantage.

Dehydrations techniques are just dirty, cheap tricks to gain unfair advantages, often hurting himself in the process.
And that is just one of the various reasons that makes HW division more difficult to cherrypick and use excuses.

 

You're assuming they don't feel like ****.

 

thanks for the personal story. Sounds like it really sucks.

I never had to cut weight. I played tennis in high school and had to ensure I didn't lose too much weight over a tournament. It's real easy to lose 5-10 pounds over the course of a couple of matches. I've felt like crap out there and lost to guys I should have beaten. Also, being from a really hot region, I've beaten guys I'm sure were better than me.

 

Geez:verysad
Learn some physiology. Nobody loses 20 lbs of water weight
because the body doesn't hold that much than can be sweated
out. They're losing the excess weight from not living a year round
healthy lifestyle. These guys that 'put on 15-20 lbs' from weigh-in
to fight night are drying out and starving themselves and then the
morning of the weigh-in they're drained. The 30 or so hours they
can drink 8lbs of water and eat probably 3-4 lbs of food in 4-5
meals and then weigh on HBO's unofficial scales with full clothing
on to show these weights that we sometimes are privy to. 20lbs
of water loss would mean certain death, if even possible.

 

Are you aware of why day before weigh-ins were brought in?!? atsch