Fighters who lost because they were weight drained?

Oscar de la Hoya looked awful when he dropped back to welterweight to fight Manny Pacquaio

I remember reading something like...

Blaming a loss on coming in overweight is like telling the judge you were drunk when you committed the crime.

 

I thought it was a bone head decision from Chad Dawson to think that he wouldn't be weight drained going into the fight against Ward. He was clearly a different fighter in that fight.

 

Yep it is a real thing and a valid reason fighters are not at their best in fights whether it be from making the weight or a rehydration clause but the gronks on here that have never stepped in the ring before will still say "No Excuses"

 

Dawson was a walking corpse - and whilst Ward might have still won @175 he gets little credit from me for that win - it was the first that sprung to mind!

 

Fighters own stupid fault. Nothing stopping them competing at a higher weight.

 

Spence Jr.

 

Tell me one fighter you believe lost because he was drained, just one.

 

It's a fighters one and only job to make weight. That's it so anything else is an excuse

 

Chad Dawson is probably the best modern day example of this. He (idiotically) chose to drop to a weight that he hadn't competed at in half a decade. He was literally overweight the day of the weigh in. And quite frankly Chad was aesthetically perfect, he had absolutely no fat on him at LHW, there was nothing for him to really lose.

Dumb, dumb move and it basically cost him his entire career.

 

fair enough, but let's not give credit to fighters who end up fighting drained opponents

 

Weight drained can be hard to define, there are instances where a fighter is too big for the weight class and making weight leaves him weak, especially back when you had day of fight weigh ins. Another example is when a fighter has to drop enormous amounts of weight in a short time to make weight and enters the ring weakened. . Duran was the poster child for that, many times ballooning up to 190-200 pounds and turning in dreadful performances.

 

I'm along the same lines as this could mean two things too. There's drained as in James Toney losing 40 pounds in 4 or 5 weeks to fight Roy Jones Jr. Then there is making a weight you have know business trying to make anymore.

I can't remember the source, but I remember saying Adamek's kidneys were literally shutting down in his fight with Dawson from struggling so bad to make weight.

Sometimes making weight is "the fight" for boxers. Like they know they'll get paid at least just by coming in at a contracted weight and means they'll get paid. The satisfaction of an individual boxer should be winning a fight, not making a weight.

I can remember when James Toney fought Jirov and there was an actual weight loss tracker on boxing news websites following how much Toney had to lose to make weight for the fight. It was wild.

 

I wouldn't say that's the case. If drained fighters end up in a top ranking, and push themselves too far that's their own stupid fault.