Khaosai Galaxy cut 22lbs-

I read in the ring mag while Galaxy was champ that he only lived on one meal a day to keep his weight down.

 

He was a very limited southpaw fighter who made a meal ticket off strength, power and toughness unlike his brother he lacked in the ring IQ department. he just seemed to never be able to take the outside foot position against decent fighters. As a byproduct his left handed often hit the ghost of Christmas past. But if it did connect people went down like there was a sniper in the crowd.

So I would say the evidence would support him being very large on fight night.

 

22lbs may have been the water weight he took off, but it's in absolutely no way the weight he put back on by the next day.

I do buy that he was cutting that much, it seems to be common practice in Thailand. Sot Chitalada, and Venice Borkhorsor were both extremely big fighters for their weight. Chitalada cut from just under lightweight, and often really struggled had looked flat because of it. Even today, Rungvisai is a huge 'weight bully'. He rehydrated back up to 136 for Estrada.

 

I believe you are reading way too much into his statement. I would say 22 lbs from the time he entered camp.

 

I would say 22lbs is not out of the question or realms of reality, combat athletes have been far more extreme in the past.

 

He wasn’t putting on 22 pounds overnight. Come on...

 

Who's Mark?

 

It's about a fifth of his entire body weight. There's no way he's safely adding and removing 22lbs of weight for every title fight in the mid-late 80s.

 

Because I can look at him on fight night and see he doesn't weigh 137lbs.

 

You cannot be so certain George, something as food for thought as we know he is hugely popular in the public eye and fought next to never outside his home country where they have fixed scales to serve there fighters of choice.

Another thought is Thai and Asian folk in general tend to be smaller boned people on average perhaps the muscularity is a byproduct of there lighter bone structure? As i said before though despite it being a fifth of his mass some have dropped more with dire returns and others have fought on as a giant in there weight class.

 

I'm not buying it. Yes, I know people have done that much weight cutting and then re-hydrated back up for the fight (George St. Pierre is the obvious example), but not for a guy Galaxy's size. Although GSP is not a huge man, he is A LOT bigger than Galaxy (about 5 inches taller and 50 or more pounds heavier). That many pounds is too high a percentage of Galaxy's body weight to be believable.