I don't know, but I don't like the "day before weigh-ins" at all...I think it's bull**** and the gorging thereafter that the fighters do, ....rising dramatically in weight, sort of defeats the purpose of having weight divisions, IMO.
Does it really affect the fight performance? Do guys who replenish aver night really fight better? I think in theory they should. Same day weigh ins should make for interesting scenarios I think. Where one guy is so big he has to watch what he eats the day on the fight. And the smaller guy fueling up before the fight and therefore having more energy. That should be beneficial in longer fights.
Can't post a link, so here is a bit cut and pasted:- Same-day weigh-ins got tossed by the wayside back in 1983, when Eddie Mustapha Muhammad came in overweight for a light-heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks. Back in the day, this was a legit superfight with all the attendant hoopla. Spinks refused to go through with the fight, even after Eddie proposed just making it a nontitle go. Spinks was ****ed because, as he said, he sacrificed and trained hard to make the weight, and if Muhammad couldn***8217;t bother to do the same, then screw it ... The promoter, HBO, the alphabets and the commissions decided that in the future, all weigh-ins would be the day before, so that a cancellation like this would never happen again. Also: The fight between Griffith and Benvenuti was outdoors at Shea Stadium, and they both weighed in the day of the fight. Benvenuti weighed 160 pounds and Griffith weighed 155 pounds. There was inclement weather that afternoon, and the fight got postponed to the next day. The next day, they made them weighed in again, and Benvenuti weighed 159¾! and Emile weighed 154! After the Eddie Mustapha-Michael Spinks unification bout that didn't come off in 1983. Eddie weighed in at 180 & proposed they make it a non-title fight. Spinks told him where to go because he had sacrificed & lost the weight & felt Eddie should have also. The fight was canceled & HBO & the Promoters were left holding the bag instead of raking it in for what was a super fight in it's day. Shortly after that to protetct the promoters & networks the alphabets switched to day before weigh-ins for he "health" & "security" of the fighters.
Just look at the clip of the weigh in for the Corrales / JLC for their first fight. Castillo was so weight drained he laid down straight after he got off the scales through weakness. Didn't re hydrate properly and got beaten in ten. For the rematch he came in over weight. Corrales and his people agreed for the fight to go ahead with the proviso that JLC could re hydrate to no more than 144 by fight time. This he did and stopped Chico by brutal KO in 4.
You mean it was introduced in the early 80's? That can't be true, can it? Was the MWs really boiling down already during Hagler's era, for example?
