Drainers Beware: WBC Will Have Same Day Weigh-Ins Like IBF. Will WBA/WBO Follow?

good idea. they also got to put some better refs in there. rabbit punches are no joke

 

Great stuff, always hated this ****ty tactic.

 

I think 10 is a bit too strict. I think 12 lbs is a bit more reasonable.

On fight day, fighters shouldn't have to worry about weight and worry about the fight. Most of the time, they need eat properly and drink enough water. I mean 2 meals and a few bottles of water can easily add up to 10 lbs.

 

On a side note, this would force Alvarez to fight at 168...cause he can't seem to stay below 170 on fight night.

 

Great, but let's see if they enforce it, or if it puts them out of business when fighters only want to be sanctioned by the WBA or WBO. Also, between this and the news of I forget which sanctioning body demanding testing by VADA, these might constitute stumbling blocks in the negotiations to unify the sanctioning bodies back to one belt.

 

This is stupid and someone's going to get killed. Day-before weigh-wins were started to protect fighters because they were already dehydrating themselves to make weight, but on the same day and therefore entered the ring dehydrated and debilitated, and more prone to serious head injury. If they weigh in in the morning of the day of the fight most fighters are still going try to cut a few lbs, but doing so would be much riskier than it is weighing in the day before. Despite the current problem of one fighter frequently having a weight advantage going back to same-day weigh-ins isn't the answer.

 

10lbs for which division? You can't have the same limit for featherweight and cruiserweight. And I don't think same day weigh-in is the way to go, it's a serious health risk. I've written some stuff about this recently:
http://www.boxingforum24.com/showthread.php?p=17528258 ( #8 )

 

Maybe these guys should be fighting in their natural weight class instead of killing themselves for a weight advantage on fight night.

 

why not make them make weight on fight night and every day for a week ahead of time? that should ensure guys are at their natural weight.

 

If fighters are at the contracted weight from 2 weeks before the fight onwards, how much they rehydrate on the last 24 hours won't matter. That's the way to go. Limiting rehydration comes with great health risks and particularly brain damage which is the last thing the sport needs.

 

What Leoh suggested in the thread he linked to makes a lot of sense. Make fighters compete at their natural weight by requiring them to weigh in multiple times before a fight. Making them weigh in as often as he suggests probably isn't possible, but I'd suggest 3 weigh ins, 30 days, 7 days, and 12 hours before a fight. That both protects the fighter, and prevents a fighter from having a significant weight advantage. Because they'd have to be on weight for most of the last month same-day weigh in for the last one would be fine. The end result would be a fighter might often weigh in at a 3 or 4 lbs more than his opponent, but that wouldn't be a problem because he wouldn't have more than that weight advantage in the ring.

But this is boxing, with its fractured regulation. If one body instituted a multiple weigh-in practice, fights outside of its jurisdiction wouldn't follow suit. It would have to really prove itself and others follow it.

 

:good but 12 hours won't work. They should be able to sleep after the last weigh-in to properly rehydrate. 30, 14, 7, 3 and 1 day schedule should work for most cases. Put this in place, add frequent VADA testing and boxing will be a completely different sport.