On average? No, on average lightweights aren't 150+ on the night. In modern times, it's usually contested between 145-150. Even Brandon Rios didn't drain as much as a lightweight. Also, no prime version of Foster would ever make 160.
Fighters of the future will appear at weigh-ins as bags of dry powder, which will become fighters again after you pour water on them.
I'll answer you once you show me the fighters who dropped weightclasses when day before started, like I requested. Stop acting like a hoe.
HBO takes unofficial weights these days for fighters. It might not be too difficult to look at those and see just how much weight we're talking about.
After a brief stint of googling, this guy appears to collect unofficial weigh ins. Here you are: http://basementgymboxing.blogspot.com/2014/01/fight-night-boxing-weights-list-of.html?m=1
Okay, point me to where I went astray. As far as I'm concerned, I'm the only one here substantiating my statements with their weights on the night. Rios was 149 for Alvarado. This after an excruciating campaign at lightweight. Gatti only went over 150 once in his stay at the weight. These are two exceptionally big lightweights from recent memory, as in not at all average. Not from 175. I'll say again, he was already cutting weight!
I think the plot has been lost. Fighters today are bigger for their weightclasses. Bob was a 168/175.
Okay I’ll make it easy for you. Foster was about 175lbs in the ring. He’d come in at times as low as 170lbs. He wasn’t cutting weight the way we do today he couldn’t make MW if he tried in his era it wasn’t in the cards. How much do you think he actually cut before he weighed in for a fight? D1ck Tiger moved up to LHW and weighed 167lbs and he was “big” MW for the time he couldn’t take cutting 7lbs with the old rule set/methods today we have the Daniel Jacob’s of the world.
If he’s a 170lbs fighter then, Foster is a 160 and quite easily lower then that fighter today. It’s really simple. The game has changed Daniel Jacob’s is almost as big as Marciano FFS.
Read what I said again. If you can make a weight with the old rule set you can go much lower today. It’s not a hard concept to grasp.
It wasn’t practiced in reality. The rules changed and fighters did not go lower. They stayed at their weights. I pointed this out to you and you chose to ignore it. Concept v. Reality.