Fight night weights for full Crawford vs Madrimov card

Cojimar 1946 · Aug 9, 2024

Dubblechin said: ↑

It's been all but impossible to compare fighters in lighter divisions with previous eras ... once they stopped having day-of weigh-ins in the 90s.

Bud Crawford weighed nearly as much as Michael Spinks did for a Light Heavyweight title defense. Spinks weighed 170.5 the day he defended against David Sears. Crawford weighed two ounces short of 170 on Saturday.

We should be comparing how Isaac Cruz (156) would've done against the Marvin Hagler (157.5 the day of) who fought Duran.

This has bothered me to no end for a long time.

Move the weigh-ins back to the day of the fight. You could probably go back to a handful of divisions that way, too.

Nobody in the lighter divisions "move up." They're all already WAY UP there.

Heavyweight is the only division where guys enter the ring remotely close to what they were on the scales. But the lighter weight fighters used to be that way, too.

That's why divisions had a range of weighs of anywhere from five to seven to 15 pounds. Because if a light heavyweight in shape was 170 the day of the fight, that's what he weighed in and fought at. And that's the division he competed in.

No fighters come in close to the bottom of a weight class anymore, because nobody competing in those divisions actually weighs that when they're in the ring. Most couldn't fight a round in their division if they actually had to enter the ring within the division limits.
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Some fighters don't rehydrate though. I recall Forrest being 148 for the Mosley rematch and Corley being 140 vs Ortiz.

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