Is it time to go back to the old weigh in system?

There was a reason day before was implemented, it is too dangerous for fighters to enter the ring without being given time to rehydrate, deadly ****.

 

I feel like they shouldn't be dehydrating at all. Fight at the weight you naturally are in shape.

 

You're still gonna get drained fighters in the weigh-ins whether its day-of or day-before. They introduced day-before so that fighters who do drain themselves don't get killed

Reverting it to day-of weigh-ins would force fighters to "stay" in their own division, so divisions will be cleaner, but harder to make inter-division bouts, which actually sounds good but sometimes you get a relatively weak division and the only "suitable" competition is in the surrounding weight classes so it depends sometimes.

 

that isn't going to happen.

 

People place so much emphasis on drain but there are fighters who drain to be the bigger guy on fight night. It's a risk but everything in boxing is a risk.

Imagine Clottey vs Kessler

 

no, but here you have guys who cut "normal" weight and gain 5-8 pounds and then aberrant freakish 21 pound gains, sometimes separating guys fighting by 2-3 weight classes on fight night.

the way it is now is a huge risk to the fighter who doesn't cut as well, whereas the same day is all on the head of the guy who decides to cut that much weight - his bad decisions impacts HIS health, not some other guys. Gamache did not deserve to have his career ended that way, he did not do anything wrong.

 

and that's the reason why they are legally alowed to cheat...of course, until the **** hits the fan...that is when they cannot longer recover even with 24 hours time to rehydrate......next time they will ask for 48hrs.....

 

I heard arguments that the size does not matter only skill does or is that true for HW only?

 

Having a 'show' the day before doesn't preclude a same day weigh in.

 

Boxing is becoming a sick joke!

 

I guess that there will be more champions losing their World Title on the measure.

 

Point is they shouldn't be dehydrating themselves in the first place.

 

Precisely. If an opponent dangerously dehydrates himself to gain an unfair advantage and pays the price then on his own head be it. But a fighter following the rules shouldn't have to pay the penalty because of stupid loopholes like this.

 

There is a difference....

If I am a WW (147 lbs) fighter and I am big, then I could fight at 154 as well...but I can make the effort and still fight at 147 and drain myself until my body cannot take it anymore, and take advantage of that and be the bigger fighter on fight night...

If I am a WW (147 lbs) fighter and I am big and someone ask me to fight him at a catchweight of 143 for example, then that's a totally diferent story... chances are I won't be able to make it.

In other words I am able to fight at 147, at a cathweight of 150, and also at 154, but it will be almost impossible for me to fight at a catchweight of 144/145 for example....

To drain yourself to make the limit of your division is one thing... to drain yourself to make a weight lower than the limit of your division is another....

 

Exactly... the new system in place is accomplishing nothing...