Weight a minute.. am I the only one?

I see what you did there. :yep

And completely agree :yep

 

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HEY! This is MY crusade!! (apart from the fight-night weights - which don't mean much).

 

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I don't really no what your complaining about. Just seems like a random rant.

Are you annoyed about catchweights, there being to many divisons or the alphabets?

I personally hate catchweights but I think fans just like to see big names fighting big names even of one fighter gets a significant disadvantage. The calls for Martinez vs Pacquiao or Mayweather just to see marquee names fight each other. I would rather see Martinez clean up his division in fights at 160lbs. Pacquiaos 8 divisions title was meaningless as it was a catchweight for a vacant belt.

Too many weight divisions. I disagree with and you need 24 away weigh ins for the saftey of the fighters.

There are to many alphabets but I don't think they are the problem with boxing. All of the governing bodies allow unifications to take priority over unifications, and quite often its mandatorires being ordered by the belts that makes the best fights happen (Katsidis was JMM mando).

Regarding fight night weight. Marquez and Mayweather were 2lbs apart when they entered the ring.

 

You're entitled to your opinion but I'm not with you on that one, I think 8-10 is plenty. Just as a convenient example, the OP mentioned Hatton outweighing guys and you have to remember Warren was feeding him superfeatherweights and lightweights who were coming in overweight to get pummeled by a guy who was basically a big welterweight who was supposed to be ten stone. That's bad for the little guy accepting a cheque for a guaranteed loss's career and it's hardly as good experience for Hatton as taking on someone his own size.
Also weightclasses like light and super flyweight, super bantamweight, superfeatherweight....what's the point? It's just diluting the talent pool.

With the 24 hour weigh ins, I think forcing them not to dehydrate in the first place makes more sense than letting them fight a weightclass or two above what they're supposed to be. What about the safety aspect of the guy who puts on a lb or two over night getting in the ring with someone who's going to be ten lbs heavier or more?

 

Catchweights have no place in a world title fight. Catchweight fights should be voluntary non-title fights.

Have the incidences of serious brain injuries declined since the introduction of the 24-hour weigh-in?

 

In terms of the entertainment value i agree but its a fact theres been less serious injurys and fatalitys since they moved to 17 divisions and moved the weigh ins to the day before.

 

the thing is the world titles are meaningless so doesn't make a difference.

yes they have.

 

To be specific here, since the OP was a bit random and weirdly constructed, you don't like the emphasis people put on weight, inparticular when its only a small amount?

This has been one of my bug bears for a long, long time.

I'm not sure that Pacquiao is too big for Marquez, its more the fact Pacquiao is a far more explosive athlete and seems to have the ability to fight at any weight and retain his strengths. Whereas with Marquez, putting weight on above 135lbs is a bit of a concern, he didn't have much about him at 147.

 

Granted, world titles nowadays are pretty meaningless but at least they are attached to weight divisions.

Do you have any data or references to support your comment that there has been a reduction in serious brain injuries because of the day before weigh-in?

 

Beat me to it.

 

They should use the amateur weight classes. Why the hell not?