Introduction of the use of a safety helmet in the PROs

Nope didn't they remove them from the AMs or Olympics for the simple reason that they don't protect the brain from trauma?

 

yes safety helmet with a protecting face mask, also lets add safety shoulder pads. this will guarantee total safety. also add safety pillows to the gloves.

 

How about a sarcasm filter for your mouth?

 

But the deaths havent happened at HW so doesnt that tell you something? I may be wrong but get rid of the extreme weight cutting and you will see less of these tragedies.

 

Extreme weight cutting is a very big problem, but there's no easy way for organisations to police it.

 

I think what they should do is same day weigh ins with a 5lbs limit rehydration. That'll force fighters to fight around their natural weight.

 

Not necessarily. Knowing how dumb fighters and their teams are they'll likely just try to rehydrate between the second weigh in and the fight itself, and end up even more badly weight drained than before. Trust me, someone will do this.

 

Sounds like you prefer amateur boxing, at least the old way of am boxing.

As sad as deaths are in boxing, its a job. And just like many jobs it is a risky one, but there are a lot more jobs with much higher death ratios.

 

I agree. But you make the penalty for violation severe. What I would do is make the weigh in right before the fighter gets his hands wrapped. I would make a set time for the fighters to get into the locker room and both would have a set time to wrap their hands. If they violate weight or these time deadlines purses would be penalized and in the event of a title fight the title fight would become a non title fight in the case of a champion violating where he could only lose the title and as he would be officially stripped of the belt upon winning the fight. The challenger in violation would turn the bout into a non title bout where even if he wins he still doesnt gain the title. I think this would work. Again though I dont think any of this would ever happen but it'd be nice to see.

 

No, you don't get it... people will still drain but not have time to re-hydrate even in your scenario. That is way more dangerous than the current system. The better system is mandatory weight limits at intervals leading up to a fight.. but logistically it's too expensive for the vasty majority of fighters to adhere to that.. as most boxers aren't full time.. boxing is a side gig. Also promoters put up a lot of money upfront for venues and the like, and it'd be to costly to fly all over and get registered weights from guys multiple times.

What could be done is better medical testing pre- and post- fight with brain scans. More early stoppages when guys are taking too much damage.