The truth behind Jones's weight loss

I was talking to an amatuer MMA fighter a few days ago. He was telling me, Thiago Alves ( the guy that KO'd Matt Hughes) weigh around 200 lbs and is shredded.

Alves cuts down to 170 for every fight!! Alves gets down in weight a little bit from 200 lbs to around 190 on a breif diet. Then Alves dehydrates himself to lose around 20 lbs for a fight. So he weighs around the 190 lbs + on fight night, for a a 170 lbs weight class.

 

I didn't realize Moore had to cut down to 12 pounds. That's pretty heavy duty weight draining right there.

 

The "weight drained" excuse was always BS. The only fight where Roy looked weight drained was in the first Tarver fight, and he won that anyway. In the second fight he was KTFO with one punch (after looking good in the first round-and-a-half) and then he was totally outclassed by Glen Johnson. You can't excuse those by saying he was still "weight drained" from a fight a year earlier. That's a joke. Especially considering he later went down to 168 to fight Tito.

 

Well, when Moore fought they had same day weigh-ins. So it was much harder for figthers to cut weight.

 

Jones weighed 200 not 192.

 

I knew that, I was making a joke on Bobo's wordplay.

 

Jones weighed 193 lbs with his shoes on and jeans at the Ruiz Weigh-in. There is fighers who cut more weight from 193 to 175 for every fight.

How much weight do think James Toney was cutting to fight at MW?

 

WRONG. Get your facts.

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Renzo Bagnariol, the chairman of the WBA championship committee, said Friday that Jones has been given until April 15 to decide if he wants to remain WBA heavyweight champion or defend his WBA light heavyweight belt. Under WBA rules, Jones had 10 days to make the decision, but it is not surprising that he was given an extension. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Meanwhile, Jones weighed more than the announced 193 pounds at the weigh-in Feb. 27. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Mackie Shilstone, Jones' conditioning coach, said Jones was 198 1/2 the morning of the weigh-in. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"I knew it was more than 193," said Marc Ratner, the executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission. "Roy had a sweat suit on. (The scale) was hovering. I figured he had about three pounds of clothes. With the skirmish that had just happened (between the camps), the amount of people on the stage and all of the jockeying around, I just got them up and down (off the scales)." [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Ratner said because heavyweights don't have to make a weight, it was better to get the weigh-in over with before another melee broke out. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"Marc didn't make an error," Shilstone said. "The scale never balanced."



Jones also went on video for a documentary and jumped on a scale after the weigh in back at home and weighed 200.
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did you saw what happened to Chris Byrd old man?

 

Alves also got busted for being on dieurectics. The guy kills himself to make weight. Its also worth noting that although Alves cuts alot of weight to make 170 it IS MOSTLY water weight. Jones is far far tighter at the weight than Alves is for a certainty you can see it in his face. His skin is paper thin.

 

Any person can make ANY weight if desired. That doesnt mean its practical. Byrd made 75 we know what happened to him. Any sensible nutrionist will tell you that athletes should not loose huge amounts of weight when there body is accustomed. This is espcially true when its musculature.

 

Lol.. U can't comopare atheletes so far between in time. Athletes are much more superior to what they were in Archies time. Roy was shredded at Heavy... Archie had prolly some flab. They didn't know what they know now about how to build muscle and the right exercises and so on. Trust me man, from my own experience. I once weighted at 83 kg.. Then i lost 20 kg in 5 months... And it took me about an year and a half or more to get my body adjusted to the weight loss, i lost FAT. Roy lost some 20 pounds of pure ripped muscle and at 30+ years old. Trust me it takes a **** load out of you.