Award winning news story about de/rehydration: The Fight Before The Fight

Gerald?

Really?

I thought they were abolished in the early 80's?

I was thinking about 83.

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Ha, I love how they got a one second sound bite from Eddie Mustafa Muhammad where he says something like "It is what it is." and then they don't mention that he's the reason we have day before weigh ins. He showed up to fight Michael Spinks 2.5 pounds over 175 and Spinks was so ****ed that he called off the fight.

 

It wouldn't stop it but it would limit it to a lower level than it is currently.

 

There was another good thread on this topic with a list of the in ring weights of popular fighters. All of the top guys fight ten or fifteen pounds above their weight class, except Pacquiao who is eating steaks while his opponents are sweating it out.

 

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It's sick watching Danny Jacobs trying to make the weigh in for 160 pounds when you know he walks around in the 180s. Look at the hell he puts himself through in the last days of his camp here starting at 5:50.

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Wow. DJ better not fight Golovkin if he has to do that to make 160.

 

It's basically not true. Nobody really moved down after the weigh in rules changed. They were draining almost as much for same day, which is more dangerous.




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No. I'll repeat myself: the weigh in rules changed not that long ago but few opted to fight in lower weights after the rule change.




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Boxing associations check your weight 2 times prior to a fight monitoring your health if you are not within the limits they issue a warning.

 

It's just a coincidence that everyone is two inches taller for every weight class now.

Face it. If the guys cutting fifteen to twenty pounds for a fight had to fight an hour after weigh ins they would all die. They can barely walk like that. Humans just physically can't handle that kind of weight cut and then fight another athlete for half an hour. Weight cuts back in the day were maybe half as extreme as what people do now.

One of the great things about there only being 8 divisions back in the day, besides deeper divisions, was that boxers would be physically incapable of cutting multiple divisions. You might get lucky and be on the bubble between lightweight and welterweight, welterweight and middleweight, but all these half steps between divisions incentivizes fighters to cut four or five more pounds than they maybe would have and drop into another weight class.

Personally, I think it's ridiculous saying that fighters in the fifties and sixties cut just as much weight as modern fighters. Modern fighters are using IV bags and other modern medical tricks to cheat nature that simply weren't around fifty years ago. Maybe, if he'd had that technology even Jake LaMotta would have made weight once in a while.

 

They changed in the 80s. Go find the 80s fighters who moved down after. Actually, go find the 80s fighters who were shorter for their weightclass since you came up with that too. Tell me when the weigh ins were an hour before the fight also.




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When I wrestled we would weight in the night before but I don't recall anyone cutting more than say 6-8lbs but we were very young :hey

This tactic has been around for years but I do find 12-18 lbs to be an alarming amount to cut and put back on in 24 hrs:?