Making Weight

He would cut weight by running and sweating it out or a sauna.

The fighter usually cuts the weight the day before the weigh in, drinking and eating nothing. Then immediately after he will drink and rehydrate himself back to his normal weight.

The human body can lose anywhere from 10-15 some even 20lbs of water weight.

It's unhealthy but fighters were doing the same on same day weigh ins and being brutally injured.

 

Making weight is terribly difficult and some would say tend to ruin the sport or in some cases give one an unfair advantage. For instance, some fighters are well known for being able to lose tremendous amounts of weight and then rehaydrate giving them a big advantage fight time.

Gatti and Clottey come to mind quickly. For guys like these and I was one of em, the weight loss starts pretty early in the training camp. This consists of diet and exercise while only taking in a small amount of calories and high amounts of protien (my experience). This is started about 6 weeks prior to a fight. Then you set targets for yuor weight at the fight gets closer. For me it was usually within 7 lbs 2 days before a fight but frequently I was 10 lbs 2 days before. Then it is a lot of sweating and bowel movements with no intake.

After weigh in its time to carb up. You need to eat as soon as possbile after weigh in with a really big meal and use a digestive aid (yogurt or probiotics). this keeps your stomach solid like a rock, did for me. I normally put on 10-17 lbs in one day.

 

Definitely give or take a 1lb or two depending on when you weigh him if hes eaten or how much hes drank at that moment

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Hatton fights on Saturday.

Friday is the weigh in.

Thursday evening to night. Hatton will sit in the sauna, run with a sweat suit to get the water weight out of him.

He'll go to sleep and not eat or drinking anything else until the weigh in. Unless he's like 138 or something then usually he'll have some water because he can.

 

Clottey doesn't add a lot of extra weight. His fight with Diego was at 149 or 150 and he was weighed fully clothed.

 

you can easily add 10-15 in 24 hours... i boxed in military school at 147 and the weigh-ins were the day of the fight. the day before a fight or the start of a tourney... i wouldnt eat at all... suck on ice cubes, chew gum or celery. in some ways, the hunger in good, because it gives you a certain edge. the key is all in the hydration. sometimes the weigh-in would be within a couple hours of the match... one instance i had to make 145, which i made stripping naked at 6 am... then i was back at 162 at fight time which was 7:00 pm. 17 pounds, in basically 13 hours. i would always add at least 10 pounds from rehydration and having one good meal. The key is if you can perspire... if you cant sweat you're in a world of **** cutting weight. Bottom line, i had no business fighting welterweight... and the cutting was brutal but, if you have the willpower you can manipulate your body in ways not imaginable

 

Clottey was said to have rehydrated to around 170 for that fight.

 

I dont believe it because he was weighed fully clothed and for the Judah fight he was under 160 I think.

 

It depends on the fighters. Some don't cut much weight. Mayweather for example, generally doesn't put on much weight after the weigh-in. Against Judah (who also doesn't cut much weight), I think his weight stayed the same after the weigh-in. He put on around 3 to 4 lbs at lightweight against Castillo, who put on around a dozen.

I don't think Barrera cuts much weight. I know for the third Morales about, at 130, he weighed in on fight night at 132 while Morales was 143.

Gatti, Corrales, Castillo, Cotto (esp. at 140), Toney (in younger days)....were all known to cut a lot of weight.

 

he was actually 175 i believe. what the hell was he wearing if his clothes weigh 10lbs?

 

I've never heard of him weighing 175 until yesterday. it was always 170.

And I struggled to believe that considering he came in at 156 against Judah and looked to be in the same good condition.


And I just looked at the fight for Clottey Corrales.

They said he was 170. Also it says it on the screen.

 

yeah clottey has to be around 170 fight time... i have a similar body type... 5'9 fought welterweight, and i walked around 165 at 4 percent body fat. i would gain 10-15 in 12 hour everytime... no way he comes in 155. NO WAY

 

he came in at 156 against Judah