Should something be done to stop weight cutting before weigh-ins?

There should be a mandatory rehydration limit and health check before each weigh in. If a fighter is seen to be dangerously dehydrated the fight needs to be called off. That's in an ideal world, though.

Reality is that nothing is going to happen. Boxing is an extreme sport and attracts extreme personalities, at all levels of the game.

 

Floyd was severely dehydrated and still approved for combat.

 

As far as I'm aware, MMA cuts are a lot worse because they don't have as many weight classes as boxing

Nobody will be the first to stop weight cutting because you're automatically at a disadvantage. If you're walking round 160 but can make welterweight, why wouldn't you cut and get the size advantage?

 

Ideally they should walk into the ring, get weighed and then fight. It won't necessarily solve the problem but I don't think boxers would be stupid enough to weight drain and then fight immediately.

 

what would be the punishment for being over weight?

im thinking cancelling the fight would be too anti business, but maybe else like a massive fine or something.

 

I think it does need to come into play. I feel that the sizes of fighters now compared to even 10 years ago has increased notably.
You'd have to come up with a rule that's actually impossible to find loopholes with.

 

. Great vid puts a lot perspective how can not be totally shattered going into the. Fight. Prob only good reason have more weight classes in boxing compared to mma

 

Day of fight weigh in solves it

 

1. They don't all do it.
2. They don't all do it equally.

This plus multiple belts is why Adrien Broner was a 4 weight world champion.

A few guys like Pacquiao were so good that they effectively stopped cutting weight and were fighting guys who had about twenty pounds of weight and an inch or two of height advantage against them. Whitaker, Toney, and Holyfield routinely fought guys with noticeable size and weight advantages over them. Roman Gonzalez is doing that now in his fourth weight class and looking a mite undersized.

And just as there are guys who are enormous for their weight class: Jarrett Hurd or Demetrius Andrade at super welterweight, Jamie McDonell at bantamweight, etc there are guys who are small for the weight who bulked up to make it there: Yuriorkis Gamboa or Dejan Zlaticanin at lightweight. Weight cutting made Gamboa's fight with Terence Crawford and Zlaticanin's fight with Mikey Garcia possible.

I also doubt that the 5'4" Guillermo Rigondeaux has as much trouble getting down to super bantamweight as some of the 5'8"- 5'9" guys in his division.

There is no way that #9 ranked Khurtsidze at 5'4" is cutting the same amount to make middleweight as #4 ranked Jacobs at 6'.

 

It's why I laugh when posters accuse or berate one or two particular fighters for "draining." They are clueless. Literally 99% of non-HW's "drain."

 

Yes, definitely multiple weigh-ins. As unfair as it is that one guy often has a big size advantage, same day weigh-ins alone is not a solution. Boxers would still cut weight, only because they wouldn't have a full day to safely do so they would enter in bad condition, and there could and would be serious injuries. Multiple weigh-ins would make sure boxers are fighting at their natural weight. Being required to make the divisional limit one month, one week, three days, one day before and day of the fight. In fact if they made the previous weigh-ins they wouldn't be big enough to dehydrate and make an artificially low weight then rehydrate fight night, so a day of weigh-in wouldn't be necessary.

 

One hundred percent correct.