missing weight on purpose

Easter would have trashed Fortuna even if Fortuna made weight.

 

I never understood how can a fighter moving up in weight, misses weight.

 

I hate fighters missing weight. It's BS and totally undermines the sport which considering some of the ridiculous weight discrepancies we already see is something boxing can ill afford.

I didn't approve of when Floyd sacked off his catchweight against JMM - although I hate catchweight anyway, we have enough divisions - I didn't approve of Salido doing it against Lomachenko and I don't approve of this now. At best it's a terrible lack of professionalism and lacking respect for everyone involved with the fight and at its worse it's blatant cheating.

It's my opinion that guys who miss weight should lose at least 50% of their purse should their opponent agree to allowing the match to go ahead.

 

It's a shitty thing to do and something needs to be done about it. Fines or getting a smaller percentage of the purse doesn't seem to be enough as it still happens.

Maybe if the fighter fails to make weight, they have to try and make weight again before the fight, forcing them to come in drained so they can't rehydrate and if they still don't bother to make weight then for every half pound over they are deducted a point. So if at the 2nd weigh in they have rehydrated up more than 6lbs they basically can't win other than via a KO as they'll have 12 points deducted.

 

In the Philippines fighters who come in over weight wear bigger gloves...seems to work as a punishment

 

Castillo doing that to Corrales is the one i remember most. That fight was the perfect demonstration of how unfair that form of cheating is

More recently Danny Jacobs used that BS clause to come in a roided cruiserweight against the much smaller drug free Golovkin

And who could forget Frightened Floyd refusing to disclose his weight against the naturally much smaller stick of Dinamita

 

That's a really good idea!

 

That's a great idea, force them to wear pillows for gloves. Should be a part of every contract for every fight, fail to make weight wear 20oz gloves.

 

Don't forget about Gervonta Davis losing the IBF on the scales.

 

These fighters become rich by being good fighters but it is ultimately the fans that put those funds up one way or the other .
This is the type of thing that pushes people away from the sport .They are letting down the fans that supply their revenue stream .

 

Nah.

 

Don't reply to me Drenlou!

 

Sakio Bika moved up the weight to face Stevenson and failed to make it

 

Just nah.