I just listened to Carl Froch's latest podcast. He was asked how much he weighs now. He's in very good shape; exercises daily, eats in a healthy manner. If you saw him you'd say he was lean. He said he currently weighed around 14 stone or 200 pounds. Remember that he weighted 12 stone/168 pounds as a boxer. So he either had to drain down a lot to make 168 or he starved himself year round to stay just above that weight.
Haney Loma was a close fight that couldve gone either way. Shouldve been a draw, honestly. But big money does what it does. Kovalev robbed v Ward in 1st fight, Lara robbed v Williams, Herrera robbed v Danyny Garcia, GGG robbed in Canelo 1, and there are so many more but those are off top of the head. Weight cutting is 100% done to absorb more punches and ideally have your own power be more effective. Its a joke. It used to be less than 24 hrs from weigh in to fight but now the weigh-in is at like 12PM for a main event at 11PM the next day...nearly 36 hours later. A mockery.
@bjl12 The possibility of great rehydration in professional boxing has become one of the "skills"; is not it? Not all organisms can rehydrate equally. Some can do it more, some less.
The whole idea behind weight classes is to even the playing field. Make the fights as fair as possible. Yet we have middleweights fighting at welterweight. Whats the point?