Why does weight class matter in Pac-JMM? It doesn't! Evidence.

And here's why:

Pac-Hatton
Weigh-in - 138
Fight night - 148

Pac-ODLH
Weigh-in - 142
Fight night - 148.5

Pac-Margo
Weigh-in - 144.6
Fight night - 148

JMM-Katsidis
Weigh-in - 134
Fight night - 145

As you can see from these stats, both men weigh around the same. I have no doubt that if JMM weighed in at 140, he would come in fight night around 147+

As for Pac, it doesn't matter what weight he fights at. For Margo, a fight at 150, on fight night he weighed 148, against Hatton at 140, he still weighed 148 on fight night.

The only thing the weight class is good for is that it allows both fighters to eat the day of the fight and still make weight. At the end of the day, these are similar build men, the difference is one chooses to dehydrate himself voluntarily into LW, the other prefers to munch on food day of fight and comes in at his natural weight.

Their natural weight is separated by 3lbs max, as was the case in their FW/SFW bouts.

The minimum the fight can take place at realistically is 138, this would simply mean Pac would need to dehydrate himself(something many of you critisize Pac for) AND JMM would dehydrate himself also. The fight taking place at 144 simply makes it so that NEITHER has to dehydrate themselves, both can come in at their natural weight, their fight night weight and still weigh in within 3lbs of each other.


Edit:

To explain "carrying weight" and "bulking up".

If I fight at 154lb but weigh in 147lb, I am dehydrating to make 147lb. 154lb is my natural fighting weight. However I choose the 147lb division because if I chose the 154lb division, my opponents would weigh 160+. Now, if I moved up to 154lb, however I dont bulk up, I simply weigh in 154lb, and fight 154lb. I am not any bigger, I have simply stopped dehydrating myself.

Why isnt this normally done and why do fighters bulk up? Well because everyone is dehydrating themselves to get a weight advantage. The typical practice would be, if I weigh at 147lb and fight at 154lb and now wanna move to 154lb division, I cant just come in at 154lb with my natural weight, weighing in at 154 and fighting at 154, I would want to BULK up. That means putting on extra weight so that I now weigh 154, and fight at 164.

Now the concept of "carrying weight" comes from this, this questions, that extra weight I added, 10lb, how much has it improved my power, strength, how much has it slowed me down etc. If I carried it well, everything is good balance, power moved up proportionally, chin, speed not slowed down much etc.

The first scenario however is NOT bulking up, it is simply NOT DEHYDRATING, I still weigh the same regardless and did not bulk up, therefore do not have to worry about carrying weight.

JMM does not have to worry about carrying weight, as he does not have to bulk up, as Pac wont outweigh him.

 

So now that we have established that Pac will be the same size fight night, regardless if this fight took place at 138-154, and that Pac-JMM is essentially the same size, is anyone still crying about the weight?

 

Explain why?

Explain exactly what advantage does Pac have?

Pac will NOT shrink if he went down to 140 and hydrated to 148, he will still be the same size, it just means he lost more water. It is the same for JMM, JMM is simply loosing water to currently get to 135, as his natural weight is obviously around 145 as thats what he fights at on fight night.

The difference between this and the PBF fight is that PBF probably had 10lbs on him fight night. As a result, JMM tried to compensate by building his body up and come in at fight night heavier, which just made him look like a bloated mexican. He doesnt need to do that with this fight.

They are both the same size, JMM dehydrates himself, Pac doesn't, why in Gods name would anyone want both fighters to dehydrate themselves? JMM can come in at 144 on weigh in and fight night be 146, WITHOUT putting on extra weight as he tried to do with PBF, he will simply come in at his natural fighting weight (the weight he actually fights with in the ring) and so will Pac.

 

:rofl

Pac started flyweight. Weighed 148 on all his fight night weight. They both fought at FW/SFW. Pac would also be a LW right now had it not been for Oscar fight at 147. The only difference between the 2 is JMM contrinues to drain himself to 135, Pac has stopped draining himself. Draining has its advantages and disadvantages. This fight calls for the 2 fighters NOT to drain themselves.

And what do you mean carry the weight better? Carry what weight? The only weight they would be carrying the is the weight they are fighting at in the ring which would be the same regardless of what weight Pac weighs at.

PBF weighed that 5 years ago? Stop hanging to his weight 5 years ago idiot. I dont have proof but you have to be an idiot to not believe it so. The guy looked bigger than Shane fight night, even Steward who was ringside commentated on it.

 

BTW for the uneducated, let me educate you on "carrying weight".

Carrying weight is a case of moving up, forceably making your body bigger or your body has gotten naturally bigger. Taking that into account, how well has your speed/power/strength etc improved/declined with that weight.

An example is a 140lb fighter who weighs 140lb and fights at 154lb. IF this fighter wanted to fight at 154lb, typically what a lot do is BULK up or naturally grow bigger so that they weigh in at 154lb and fight at maybe 164lb. Why do they do this? Because their opponent is doing the same, at 147lb their fighting a 154lb, at 154lb they are fighting a 162lb....typically. Now how well someone carries weight depends on how well their physical attributes transferred with that weight. If someone from 147lb bulked up to 154lb for weigh in and now comes in 162lb, however his power hasnt gone up and his speed has declined...he didnt carry the weight well. If however someone did that, he hits a lot harder in proportion to the weight, maintained his speed, he carried the new weight well.

This does not apply to Pac-JMM because, Pac does not come into the ring with a huge advantage in weight as pretty much every other fighter does. Pac did not bulk up to fight at WW, he gained about 4lbs of muscle and just stopped dehydrating himself, also why hes not as ripped. JMM is not being asked to bulk up because he doesnt need to, nor is Pac gonna have a weight advantage on him.


Pac, instead of playing the dehydrating game like everyone else is doing, is simply weighing in around what hes fighting at. Now a FW who weighs in at 126 and comes in at 137 cant do that, he would need to bulk up to 144 FROM 137 and come in at 148 for example. JMM however is not at disadvantage, he will simply have to also come in at his natural weight and not bother dehydrating himself.

 

People wont face the facts? People are too fickle maybe which we established.

Oh Im floored that you think Floyd still weighs 150 on fight night, 5 years later nearing his mid 30s

A guy who couldnt make 144 weighed 150. Meanwhile JMM is making 135 and weighing in 145. lol. Tell your boyfriend to disclose his fight night weights...guy didnt wanna make it look any more of a sham than it was.

 

Thats just it, fighters bulk up in fear of being outweighed big time on fight night. JMM isnt gonna be outweighed by more than 3lbs max, so he doesnt need to bulk up, he just needs to stop dehydrating himself. Gee, Pac gets **** for dehydrating his opponents, and **** if he doesnt wanna dehydrate his opponents