Biggest Weight Gain From Weigh In

Rios weighed 140 in the Alvarado rematch, 161 on fight night.

 

That's right, it was Joey Gamache. That was one brutal beat down. Ended Gamache's career, caused brain damage and led to a lawsuit. It is BS when a guy is allowed to put on that much weight. If they are going to weigh in two days before the fight, they need cap it at something like 5% over the original agreed upon weight for the day of the fight. Canelo going from 154 to 174 is total, complete bull****.

 

Fight night weight is unofficial

Mayweather is 160-170 on fight night but lies and claims he is 150

 

It was reported that, in one of his fights against Calderon, Segura went from 108lbs to 130lbs. That would be, not only the biggest gain I can remember hearing of but quite incredible when you consider it as a percentage of his bodyweight.

 

weighing more than your opponent on fight night does not always give you the advantage, mayweather used his light feet against canelo to be quicker and more agile.

 

Rafa Marquez puting +16 pounds for a bantamweight fight against Pastrana is quite schocking imo.

 

--Carbohydrate (stored in your muscles and liver as glycogen) is accompanied by a good bit of water. For every gram of glycogen stored, you store anywhere from 3-4 grams of water with it.

How does this relationship affect bodyweight? In short, diet and exercise will deplete glycogen stores. If your diet is working, the depletion will occur early and have a significant impact on your bodyweight without impacting a permanent change in your body composition.

Let’s take me as an example. I estimate that I have around 155 – 160 pounds of lean tissue. Tack on another 12 – 17 pounds of fat. After a week or two of being on a low-carbohydrate diet that involves intermittent fasting and plenty of exercise (see here), my liver and muscle glycogen stores will be completely depleted. I’ll weigh about 172.

If I go on to eat a bunch of carbohydrates — cookies, pretzels, breads, fruits and other starchy foods (by eating a bunch, I mean consuming something on the order of 1000 grams of carbohydrates over the course of 24 hours, which is about 4000 calories), I will fully replenish my glycogen stores. In the process of replenishment, the 1000 grams of carbohydrates will require anywhere from 3000 to 4000 grams of water for storage! Converting from grams to pounds, the impact on my bodyweight should be an increase of 9 to 11 pounds, taking my weight up to 183*! Of course, the same change would happen in reverse: re-depleting glycogen stores would drop my weigh back to the low 170s.--

-Understanding Bodyweight and Glycogen Depletion-

 

Interesting, I have always wondered how your body puts on significant weight when eating, for example, several cookies. After all, the cookies weigh next to nothing, so how can a body put on pounds?

 

There was that potential-screw-up-potentially-not thing about Matthysse rehydrating like crazy against Dallas, I think it was.

 

That has to be the largest percentage gain ever. I recall reading that Mathysse rehydrated up to 163 when he fought Dallas, I think that was the opponents name.

 

Absolutely. Its a disgrace and it really hurts fighters in the long run. If fighters fought at their natural weights we`d have fighters not ending up being completely shot by 35. I think thats why floyd still looks so fresh in the ring at his age. hes never had to weight drain and fights close to his weight. i wish boxing would implement same day weigh in and a 5lbs gain limit. 5% purse loss for each lb over.

 

No they don't.
Only iv's are used when a fighter can't get down or hold down any food.
If a fighter needs iv's then the fight should be cancelled because said fighter is in no condition to step in any ring against any healthy pro fighter

 

Agreed. Fight in your own damn division.

 

True but then boxers wouldn't move up or down weight divisions and theres already alot of criticism for that.

 

At this point, same day weigh-ins would only result in dilluting the quality of the sport...losing fans in the process. People would still take the same risks to make weight, except more and more of them would fight like zombies because they didn't have enough time to rehydrate.