The saying doing the weight properly

Mayweather-style. Live the life and fight at close to your walking around weight.

 

if you win you done the weight properly
if you lose you done it wrong.

 

Exactly this, if you are a professional boxer you shouldnt be deviating too much from your fighting weight and having a good diet and the correct amount of training.

It's not even difficult there's so much science behind alot of this now which IMO is unecessary.

The ones trying to cut loads of weight in short spaces of time are basically stupid and being given bad advice, drying out your body is not natural or healthy just so you can gain a bit of a weight advantage on fight night.

The whole weight cutting thing for me is ridiculous anyway, yeah a few pounds here and there but not what some of them do, and the reason most need to do it is cos they have poor nutrition (not professional)

 

For longevity of a career live the life.The drastic cutting of weight I agree with totally dangerous leaving yourself severely dehydrated.

 

Just look at Froch lives the life... and complete with being a double hard ******* and look at the longevity he's got even with his style

look at hatton well conditioned stamina machine in his early days but as he got older being doing too many beers and take away etc screwed him

Look at Hopkins lives like an athlete still is one. Mayweather getting on in years for the lower weights is still number 1 by a mile.

You have to dedicate yourself to it make no excuses. Some guys can drop a lot of weight quickly but it gets harder and the more shortcuts you take the bigger the effect. You have to live around fight weight that way your body has the best chance of being 100%

 

Boxers go right down in my estimation when they fail to make weight. It's a dead giveaway that they're not living the life like pros should.

 

When training Ricky he only had real trouble once making weight his last fight at SFW
There was never an issue at LW, if your eating and drinking the night before the weigh in how can you be dead at the weight, I've heard nightmare stories about weight making surviving on two bits of fruit and a bottle of water for 2-3 days before weigh in is totally shocking
The difference between your bro Steve (WC) and a 12 round fighter world title fighter is night and day and there's no comparisons whatsoever

 

As Jim Mcdonnel said ''Degale never spars at 12 stone.'' Simply because on fight night he is at least 12 stone 10lbs.

 

Canelo Alverez is dead at the weight imo, he also made 10st 12lbs to fight Mayweather and looked like a prisoner of war in the days leading up to the weigh in.

 

No coach worth his salt would have a boxer sparring near his fight weight, you'd generally spar at the weight you'd walk in the ring at or slightly heavier

 

there are ways you can get rid off 4-5lbs **** easily a lot of boxers take off 7-8lbs off the night before.