Weight bullies

Another thing is, that some fighters are better at weight cutting than others, and you know what? I personally don't like this being such a massive factor. Your boxing success shouldn't hinge on the ability to be able to drain as much water as possible out of your system.

 

Introduce extra rulings, change the weigh in process, that's the only way. We have what, 18 weight classes nowadays? And you still get fights between guys who look like they're 3 divisions apart. It simply makes no sense the way things are done at the moment.

Not fighting someone isn't a real option either.

 

And there's no downside to cutting down on this weight drain bull**** anyway, I'm not sure why people are against it. We'll have fairer fights, get rid of this horrid practice that probably has a lot of long term health side effects. What are the negatives?

 

Size means a lot, always has. If you're below 6'5 right now at HW? Good luck becoming a champion. But with heavyweights, at least we start hitting the point of diminishing returns which you don't begin to see until you get to those extremes, there is such a thing as too big, just look at Valuev and Dong. That's not the case in lower weights though.

And I'm fine with reach, height and other types of advantages that don't pertain to weight. If you have longer reach and are taller... You probably are lankier and probably not as strong as the other guy, there's plus and minuses to all body types.

With size though, you can have longer reach, be taller AND bigger and stronger too. It's too much. There needs to be a control and there is, it's just not doing a good job at the minute.

 

Kevin McBride was a weight bully when he fought Tyson.

McBride constantly pushed and used his 30-40 lbs weight advantage against Tyson against the ropes.

 

What cracks me up is people here are constantly calling fighters "weight bullies" and yet they have NO IDEA what the guy actually weighs

"Weight bully" here basically means "tall for his division" or "big biceps and broad shoulders" or some variation of "I don't really have a good concept of how much people weigh but this guy just looks big to me"

Literally you could have all the proof in the world that someone like Jarrett Hurd weighed the same as the guys he was fighting and people still wouldn't be satisfied

 

On the flip side you have someone like Canelo, where we have a ton of documented proof that he was HUGE at 154, but now the narrative has flipped and you have people saying he isn't even that big at 154. A 175lb guy isn't big at 154 because he doesn't fit people's preconceptions of what a weight bully looks like.

 

Not according to Paulie Mallinagi who thinks the sole reason for those cutting a lot of weight and those jumping divisions like it didn’t matter is down to modern doping....PEDs making the hard seem easy.
I worry for the health of em to be honest as when you read up on extreme weight cutting and the fluid on the brain,spinal fluid ect it really does make you wonder how we’ve not seen more complications or even deaths from it.
Wouldn’t hurt to experiment with the amateurs going back to same day weigh ins would it?

Would be “weight bullies”have to be very professional re making weight,Canelo say what you want about him was the ultimate pro when it came to making weight.

 

Lol Canelos an odd one,even in the Floyd fight Box Nation Commentators called him an absolute barrel of a man,pretty sure they said the exact same thing against GGG too.

Whilst Canelo doesn’t have the height of a usual Middleweight their are exceptions to the rule,who’s the tiny Russian guy who was gonna fight Saunders till he got put in prison for Mafia connections?that guy was smaller than Canelo but struggled making 160lbs.