Same day weigh-ins need to be mandated

Dehydration can lead to inefficient protective fluid around the brain that is impossible to replenish between the weigh-in and fight.

 

what needs to happen is fighters should not be allowed to gain more than a certain amount of weight after the initial weigh in say 6 to 8 pounds max this bull**** where Salido gains 20 to 25 pounds in the Lomachenko fight is wrong or Chavez Jr damn near a cruiser fighting at supermiddle.

 

Same day weighins would eliminate the excess weight a fighter would have over another climbing the ring.

If a fighter wants to severly dehydrate himself to make weigh on the morning or afternoon of the fight, its on him.

The current system is a deservice to those fighters that weighin safely and right because he may encounter an opponent who chose to severly dehydrate and abled to climb a ring 10 to 20 lbs heavier than he.

If you go back to the old same day weighins, the majority of fighters will start to fight in their natural weight class.
Chavez Jr. for example likely would train his ass off so that he could make 175 lbs on fight night.

Yeah, exactly, sameday weighin's actually would force more fighters to stay in the gym and be in proper shape. We'd have better more competitive fights that way.

 

and while we're at it, lets go back to the original weight divisions. Let's get rid of all these pretenders!:deal

 

It would be nice to see who is the better fighter, instead of who is better at cutting weight and re-hydrating.

 

It would definitely shake up the landscape quite a bit at first, but I think this will have to be taken care of at some point.
One can only imagine what kind of crazy medical acrobatics that goes on behind the scenes when a featherweight is gaining close to 20 lbs overnight and then taking one of the hardest tests an athlete can take: the world championship boxing match.:!::nut

They would probably move cruiser to 210 and lhw to 185, 175 smw, 168 mw etc.. Would be weird at first, but beneficial to the sport in the long run seeing as some of this weight draining has gotten fully out of hand.

 

i agree. can anyone tell me why the rule was changed to begin with?

 

Same day weigh-in's is a must. However, boxing is crooked, so don't hold your breath....................was too many titles..............

 

Either the death in Mancini-Kim or the aborted Spinks-E. Muhammad rematch when Muhammad didn't make weight and they lost lots of $$$

Maybe both.

 

I dont think there would be anything wierd about it, except fighters who rehydrate a significant ammount of weight overnight with the current system would have to climb a weight class or two in order to make weight the day of the fight.

I dont see your point on why weight divisions would have to have different weights. I could see where cruiserweight would be effected as its a long way from 175 to the 200 lbs cruiserweight limit.
I would propose cruiserweight be scaled down to the original 190 lbs limit and add a weight class for those to big to make 190 lbs, but to small to compete with the bigger Heavyweights that nowdays scale at over 220 lbs.

190 cruiserweight
205 New weight class (super cruiserweigh maybe?)
Over 205 Heavyweight

They'll never go back to the original 8 weight classes simply because there's to much money to be made handing out world title belts.

 

I believe it was the WBC and Jose Sulaiman who first implemented the day before weighin's. They wanted to give fighters who have a hard time making weight a chance to replenish fluids. The goal was to put fighters at less of a risk by having them enter a ring hydrated.
They were to dumb to realize that fighters would take their dumb rule change and just further dehyrate themselves in order to gain a size advantage.
It just turned out to be an ineffective rule change as it gave the less skilled fighter a chance to compete vs real skill fighters by having a size advantage on fight night.

.........and people wonder why there is a shortage of skill fighters nowdays?
Imo, that rule change pushed fighters to focus more on having a size advantage that skill took a back seat to it.
As the years have gone by, more fighters focus on size and put less time and effort working and honing their skill.

I guarantee you one thing. If fighters knew they'd be climbing a ring with a fighter their actual size, they'd put more time and effort honing their skills.

 

Totally agree. Also rehydration limits...max in-ring weight!

That Lomachenko fight farce was the last straw for me.

 

"In ring" weights would be irrelevant with official "day of the fight" weighins!

If anything, you could have a 30 day to fight weighin and a 15 day to fight weighin. Something along those lines to monitor that fighters have actually actively trained to reach the weight limit with a better probability to reach it safely.
If fighters are off those guidelines, then you fine them and you dont allow them to fight.