Rocky could dehydrate to super middleweight~

Yes, I don't condone it as a measurement, i'm using it as an example of the dramatic difference between Rocky's body composition and the body composition of a fighter who has really charged at modern weigh in and the differences.

I agree that no peak pro athlete (which Rocky certainly was) could lose "a lot" of fat in a traditional sense, but compared to a fighter who's lost the whole bag, yes, he could lose a bit.

 

Every modern boxer who weighs in, with very few exceptions, do it.

So almost every boxing match broadcast on television has fighters who have ripped themselves, recovered themselves, and done boxing.

It's in no way strange or even that difficult.

Boxers at weigh ins sometimes do faint from dehydration. And almost do.

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You are confusing the weigh-in with the fight again.

Again, the weigh-in and the fight are being falsely conflated. Fighters can look very different weigh-in versus fight night.

This is the second thing that you aren't gathering or are choosing to ignore.

The recovery between weigh in and fight is colossal. It is possible for a fighter to gain twenty pounds and more. I believe 18% of weight is the current record. This is the single difference between Marciano's era and this one.

 

Almost every single fighter in the world is weakened by the weigh in.

 

Listen.

If Rocky Marcaino didn't cut weight pre-fight, he could, in his prime, easily - easily by modern standards - get to within the LHW limit. Unless there's something wrong with him.

It would, in no way, be "a grim battle" to do this. It would be easy by modern standards.

Now do you a) think he cut water? or b) dispute the above?

Second, Marciano could almost certainly lose fat. Not by staging "a grim battle". Just by eating a good deal less than the huge amounts he used to eat in camp. You quite enjoy these threads i seem to remember? All the eggs and the orange juice and the steak? Keep the workouts the same - hard but done all over the world all the time - and swap all the huge steaks for lean meats and steamed vegetables, cut the huge egg breakfasts for high protein low fat shakes and a piece of fruit.

Now do you a) dispute that Marciano had huge amounts of food while training and b) understand if he takes in less calories he will lose fat? and c) understand that this is normal today for a boxer?

If so, how can you dispute he would lose weight?


Now if you take these two basic, easy, simple things that almost all fighters do these days and put them together what do you think you would get as weight for Rocky Marcaino pre-fight? JUST stop eating steaks and huge breakfasts, JUST replace all the orange juice with cold clean water JUST cut water as the fight approaches.

What's his weight?

 

And in the ring they are looking excellent. These guys look destroyed on the scales and then in the ring, they look elite.

Have you noticed the fad of predicting who will win the fight based upon who looks more drained is almost gone?

Fighters just coming back too strong now.