'There shall be a second day weigh-in on the morning of the event. The promoter of the event shall arrange for the use of the scale at the prearranged time and location for the second day weigh-in. At this weigh-in, boxers cannot weigh more than ten (10) pounds over the weight limit. If a boxer weighs more than ten (10) pounds over the weight limit, he will have two (2) hours thereafter to make the prescribed weight. If after two (2) hours he still weighs more than ten (10) pounds over the weight limit, the fight cannot proceed as a championship bout. If the Champion fails to appear for the second day weigh-in, the title will be vacated. If the Challenger fails to appear for the second day weigh-in, the fight may be staged with the understanding that the Champion shall retain his title whether he wins or loses the bout' Taken from the IBF website. Basically you have to weigh in for a second time on the morning of the fight and cannot weigh more than 10lbs over the contracted weight limit. This is a bit weird to me. So a cruiserweight and a bantamweight have the same amount of water weight they can put back on? Surely it should be a percentage of your body weight. 10lbs is nothing for a large guy but is very significant for a smaller man.
You'll have guys who'll be able to win WBA/WBC titles ata weight but wont be able to fight for IBF titles in the same division
I like the rule it should stop a possible considerable weight difference in some fights. Personally I'd prefer to go back to same day weigh-ins
The reason that same day weighins were eliminated was because some fighters were entering the ring dehydrated from difficulties making weight. When the rule was changed to the day before weighins to give fighters a chance to hydrate. The rulemakers did'nt factor into the equation that what fighters would do is dehydrate even further than before in order to have a weight advantage the next day. It was supposed to be a rule change for the safety of the fighters, but how is it one when fighters today now gain as much as 20 lbs overnight and are really putting their body organs at risk dehydrating as severely as they do. Most fighters back in the day did not tip the scales the day of the fight bone dry. Today, so many fighters are so severly dehydrated the day of the weighin, that if they were to fight that same night, they'd be in big trouble. This IBF 2nd day weighin is just outright dumb. Fighters will just take the risk that the 10 lbs they're allowed to gain back is enough when in many instances it might not be. You have to make these weighins simple. You either keep it as it is, or go back to same day weighin's, but you dont have two weighin's. I like the idea of going back to how it was before. Weighin the afternoon of the fight, and this in most cases assures that the fighters will enter the ring within 5 lbs of eachother. Boxing has to get it through the thought process that same day weighin's are actually the safest for fighters. No way would a fighter like Chavez Jr. even attempt to make middleweight if the weighin was on the afternoon of the fight. A fighter like Chavez would get himself in better shape and weighin the afternoon of the fight as a lightheavyweight. Some of the lightheavyweights today would have to go up to cruiserweight for a same day weighin, etc..............
I like it, but agree it should be a percentage of the weight instead of X lbs (hadn't really thought about it before)
i'm all for it, it will eliminate situations like Chavez jr outweighing his opponent by 15-20 lbs come fight night
I'd rather it be a percentage thing, somewhere between 5 and 10, but the rehydration thing needs sorted.
