Should boxing bring back same day weigh ins?

I feel day before weigh ins allow for a lot of weight manipulation.
This if some right can give a boxer huge advantages.
Look at chavez jr for example.
It is a great way to make a limited boxer who has huge marketablity advantages that help them win titles.
The a side usually does stuff like this. They tend to have the teams and professional camps which allow this advantage.
Broner, santa cruz, crawford at 135, ramirez at 168 are four examples off the top of my head of marketable boxers who won titles while dwarfing all their oppenents. Apart from crawford if they boxed at a more natural weight from the start they may have struggled to pick up a title and definetly wouldnt have gained the same momentum.
So i think it will never change because its bad for business, but it should change for medical reasons and to make things fairer

 

What Ramirez at 168?

 

Gilberto, massive for the weight, his a big 175 fighter.
But he wouldn't have got near a title at 175 at the time he was getting one at 168

 

Yes. Absolutely yes. 17 divisions I can deal with, but next day weigh ins changed the sport massively, and not for the better.

 

Even putting aside safety and the difficulty of judging prospects who are weight loss champs, we'd see much better performances if the fighters were spending fight week eating and drinking normally instead of starving and sauna-ing themselves half to death.

Can you imagine what basketball games would look like if the players did that?

 

Yes to same day weigh ins. Might as well weigh them, say, three days in a row leading up to fight day, just to make sure they are truly within their weight class.

 

Actually IBF tried to implement this several years ago by having two-times weigh-in.

But they somehow gave in and abolish the rules.

 

They could easily bring them back but the weigh-ins have become almost part of the promotion and give PPv sales one last big push, and the casinos and networks make money with the big fight weigh-ins also. Especially if a scuffle breaks out or there are some controversial comments.

 

Absolutely go back to same day weigh ins. I'm sick of seeing a jr. welterweight step into the ring weighing as much as a jr. middleweight

 

100% there is too many people that are ballooning in weight post weight in.

I don't want to see super middleweights in welterweight divisions.

 

Stop those sh*t threads based on weight. Weight difference is minor factor for result of fights. I don't care about same day or different day weigh-in

 

Same day weigh ins wouldn't stop the cutting, it would just leave less time to rehydrate and be more dangerous.

 

I think so, I generally think that there should be more regulations for making weight.

 

Yes. I fully support same day weigh ins. Problem is the weighin has become a show in itself and the promoters are less likely to change that and lose that added revenue.