Rocky could dehydrate to super middleweight~

It's quite likely that someone can sweat down about 20 lbs, at least for a while. But few do that for a long time. !75 lbs shouldn't present any problems whatsoever, he'd quite typical in terms of weight for LHW today.

If Rocky was around today, with the same exact body he had in the 40's and 50's, he'd most likely fight at 175. Him and Beterbiev would be quite a fight.

 

You misunderstand me.

Of course I am not saying that he couldn't cut five pounds, I am saying that he couldn't cut five pounds of body fat, as others have suggested.

He would pretty much have had to start his wight cutting journey from his ring weight.

 

This is absolute nonsense, to be frank. The guys at LHW are the same weight in the ring as Marciano was if not higher. A guy like Anthony Yarde is probably around 200 lbs in the ring.

Rocky was in the 184-189 lbs range. Sweating out 9-14 lbs wouldn't present much of a problem.

 

He wouldn't have to cut body fat, just water.

 

Yes but we are not talking about getting him to 175, we are talking about taking it a step further and going for 168.

Somebody like Carl Froch comes into the ring around 172 lbs, and he is a monster for a super middleweight.

There have been cruisers weighing in in the low 190s and high 180s in recent years.

It still happens.

 

You really need to be more precise & acurate if you want to start a thread & be persuasive.

1) Rocky was not soft. He walked around a little over 200 & trained down.
He was not as defined as some-some have even lower body fat than he had, but also some just do not look as defined at the same BF level.

2) Why use a round number that is lower than his usual, & certainly his prime weight?
If you want to make a case that he could make a very specific weight, you should actually look up his typical & certainly prime weight.
If you just ballpark and round down, you erode your credibility.
At his best & what he said on filmwas his prime weight-& lighter than his amateur days around 195-he was 187/188 lbs.

So could he make SMW? Of course he could, but the question would be would he be weakened by dehydrating too much or &/or losing too much muscle.
At his lightest he could do it fairly comforatably.
When ~ 188 it would be a stretch, losing more than 10% of body weight.
Only with day before weigh ins, he might well do it without problems.
Easier if he first shed the little bit of fat he had left before dehydrating.

 

We could probably get him to welterweight if we cut his leg off, I am asking what he would be likely to do.

 

With his discipline he could probably stay at 168 if he wanted to, but not much is happening in that division since the time of Froch and Ward et al, so I think he'd be a LHW today.

 

Come on now, there is nothing the slightest bit unlikely about sweating out 16-21 lbs before the weigh-in and then rehydrating.

 

Back then fighters trained down. He was already way down from his natural weight. What you’re saying is men like Tua and Tyson would train down to super middle is a little silly. Some men can do it some cant. Marciano would not be at that weight and be anywhere near what an athlete should perform at. He’d be sickly With no power. More likely scenario is he juices up like the rest of them and fights at cruiser or HW. My guess would be cruiser limit in weight with maybe a fight or two at Hw.