a bigger fighter and a smaller fighter get it on, what weight should they fight at?

:thumbsup Exactly!!!!

 

A fair point!

 

Bigger man's weight

 

Had Marquez stipulated that in the contract (well, first of all, Mayweather would have walked away laughing from the negotiation table, but let's say Marquez had clout and Mayweather's balls in a vice) he'd be an absolute scumbag and would lose at least one huge fan.

The onus is not on the bigger man to earn credit in these situations - he has men his own size that he can worry about, and if a smallfry wants to challenge him all he needs to do is stay right where he is and let the smallfry come to him. It is 100% on the smaller man's shoulders to prove something by moving up. Otherwise stay in your own weight range.

The reason the larger man doesn't need to prove anything is because the risk/reward ratio is radically different for him. Or, more accurately, the reward-to-penalty ratio.

I'll explain. If a small guy beats a big guy at the big guy's weight - well, it's just good-big-beats-good-small logic. Not a major deal. No great knock or embarrassment on the small guy, nor does the big guy get a ton of credit. If the small guy beats the big guy at the big guy's weight - the small guy gets MASSIVE reward, and the big guy gets MASSIVE penalty, huge embarrassment.

That system's fine like it is. Weight draining is dangerous and unhealthy and should be avoided period, not least of all because in situations like this it alters the landscape of reward-to-penalty ratios and places an automatic asterisk next to the result.

 

It depends what they're fighting over.

If they're just fighting for kicks, they should fight according to whatever rules they can both agree on.

If they're fighting for titles / belts, they should fight according to the weight rules governing those titles / belts. If a smaller man wants a larger man's belt, he should be prepared to win it under the same weight conditions the older man had to win it under, and vice versa.

 

Philla if you put it that way than Catchweight

 

The only answer can be the challenger has to make the champion's weight.

 

a catchweight but not for the respective tilte

 

Pacquiao has proven himself against Cotto. He can handle a welter, he needs to fight at welter. This is insane Clottey can barely make 147 now he's being asked to make 144. I hope Clottey doesn't sign that ****.