There was always one part of this i was confused about... lets say for some odd reason pac wanted to fight at middleweight.. which is 160....at the day of the weigh in can you weigh anything under 160 or is there some type of limit the guys have to be at... i just find it crazy that whenever fighters fight up in weight... they always are pretty close to the limit....
The fighter doesn't need to"use" all the extra weight, its just that they usually do because their opponent is likely to be bigger. In your example Pac, if he thought it would suit him, could fight for the middleweight title and weigh in at 139 lbs if he chose to.
As long as they make the weight (160) at weighing time, that's all they have to do. Because weigh-in is the day before the fight, fighters want to be as heavy as possible on the actual fight. So if a guy is fighting at 160, he'll probably weigh 167+ the day before weigh-in, sweat out several pounds, get weighed at 160, and then bulk up again to his actual weight (167) for the fight. edit: oops, i think I misunderstood your post. Were you talking about a minimum weight?
Most sanctioning bodies say you have to be within a certain distance of the weight, but it differs from location to location and belt to belt.
yeah thats what im saying.... guys are always like within 3 pounds of the required weight... i never seen someone go up and be like 6+ pounds under or anything like that on the weigh in date
if the fight is at 160 then I think the lowest you can be is 154, since thats another weight class. if Pacquaio would've came in 139 expect for 142 for the DLH fight I think they would've told him put on 1 pound
I you want to fight at Middleweight you can not be lower then 155 lbs. If you wanna fight at Super middleweight you must be 161 or higher. If you drop into the heighest weight limit for the previous division whatever belts that were going to be on the line are no longer up for grabs.
Thats way Floyd hit 150 for the Oscar fight at "Light Middleweight" and thats why Oscar hit 155 lbs to fight Hopkins at Middleweight.
A boxer just needs to be below a certain weight (say 160), not nessarcerily above the previous weight division (154). A boxer can weigh in at 151 and fight for the middleweight title without putting on any extra weight.
