Safety,Commisions, weighin's, hydration??

^^^ this guy is obsessed with pacquiao and ****!

true story...

 

So Enzo, you don't think that he has a point? :huh

 

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It is not uncommon for boxers to have "walk around" weights that are much higher than their fighting weights. As I understand things drastict weight change in a short period of time is unhealthy. While it might not show up right away and the boxer might look great. He could be doing long term damage to his body. This damage might not show up intell after his career. However it could show up during a career.
There is no international boxing commision to enforce any rule. If there was one of the rules should be that if a boxer campagans at a certan weight than his weight must be in a certan range even when he is not fighting. It is imposible to keep track of every boxer at all times. Either random weight checks are needed or when a fight is sgined the boxers must allready be in a weight range. I think this is a problem without an easy or convent fix.

 

Considering the average human body can cut 8-10lbs of water easily.

10lbs give or take should be the cut off for cutting weight in boxing.

 

I hate the practice of dehydrating to artificially lower a fighter's weight in order to make a limit. It's unhealthy and frankly counterproductive. Look how much better Pacquiao himself is able to perform now that he doesn't have to drain anymore. That in itself should be an indication to all fighters that they're doing it wrong.

They're trying to gain a size "advantage" but in turn put themselves at a strength, stamina, and punch resistance disadvantage. The problem is, though, that they haven't figured it out yet.

Conventional logic follows the old boxing adage that "a good big man beats a good little man" - that's only true if they're both optimal.

They used to do same day weigh-ins, and for a while, fighters were actually fighting at that weight. But some shmuck realized he could dehydrate himself for the weigh-in then rehydrate afterwards and be way bigger than his opponent during the fight. Then they all started doing it, even with weigh-ins on the same day as the fight! This was obviously even more unhealthy than doing it with a day to rehydrate, so the boxing commissions' felt their hand was forced and pushed the weigh-in to the day before in order to give fighters a chance to reasonably rehydrate and be somewhat healthy in the ring.

If they did weigh-ins 1 or 2 hours before the fight, that would probably keep people from killing themselves (literally) to artificially make a weight limit. But I'm not sure how that would work out logistically with everything else going on pre-fight, and then if a guy was a bit heavy he wouldn't have time to hit the sauna and fights would end up being cancelled.

 

Pac was drained in the 2nd marquez fight :yep

 

This is also true.

 

I've been an advocate of same day weigh in for a while. Billy"Duddy Killer" Lyell is a local. He said in an interview he doesn't cut because it affects his performance. He beat Duddy when they were still trying to drain him to 154. This was a catch weight fight that he missed weight by a pound. I'm sure that had something to do with Duddy's performance.

That said, New Jersey does have some limits in place. It's been a while since I read the rules, but for championship fights you have to be weighed like 30 days in advance and be withing x% and then there is a rehydration limit. I don't know the exact numbers anymore.

Like drug testing, there needs to be one national set of rules.

 

making weight is part of the sport!