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Old 06-05-2006, 02:58 PM   #1
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Should Boxing Weigh-in be Changed to the day of the Fight?
This is obviously over the canclled bout between Coralles and Castillo with Castillo failing to make weigh in. This raises an important question. Say Castillio made weigh in: he then gets a day to re-hydrate and possibly gain up to 20 pounds. You are then not fighting in your weight class, and even a 2-3 pound difference makes a big difference in a fight. I know they moved it to the day before for protection of the boxers who'd have to go fight after totally dehyrating themsleves to make weigh-in, but does this make the field even more unfair?
 
Old 06-05-2006, 05:44 PM   #2
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Its shitty imo. I heard Scott Harrison puts on something like 25lbs post weigh-in

As far as the Castillo/Corrales thing goes, what a disgrace, Castillo was nowhere near the weight, after 4 tries!
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Old 06-05-2006, 07:11 PM   #3
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They should do what high school wrestlers do, there is a rule where wrestlers must be weighed in the day of meet. So what the coachs do is have the wrestlers came in and weigh themselves at like 6 am before school, then the wrestlers can eat/drink or whatever and gain the couple of pounds you normally add and lose through out the day.
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Old 06-06-2006, 02:32 PM   #4
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yeah espeically at the lower weights where the weight makes even more of a difference. Arturo Gatti put on 20 friggen pounds on the day of a fight, and at his weight class that's like 60 pounds to a heavyweight
 
Old 06-06-2006, 03:01 PM   #5
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I am not totally sure how the current weigh in system works but is there a certain time they must weigh in the day before? Because they could do it real early in the day the day before and be able to gain even more weight.
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It's always been bullshit. The spirit of the rule is completely disrespected.

I don't see how a 12 hour prior to fight weigh in would be so bad. A guy has months (typically) to cut weight for a fight. Not to mention if you can't keep yourself in shape after/before a fight and don't make the weigh in, then you're not really a true craftsman of your profession.
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Old 06-07-2006, 12:41 AM   #7
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the rule used to be the day of about 15 years ago i believe
 
Old 06-07-2006, 05:19 PM   #8
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In my opinion, you should have to weigh in 9 hours before a fight. It's fucking beyond stupid why they don't already.
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Could Don King and his riches have anything to do with it?
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Old 06-07-2006, 06:58 PM   #10
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In my opinion, I doubt it. He lost money by the show falling through and Castillo was probably the slight favourite to win.
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But i mean in general, does having the weigh in prior to fight day bring in more cash by drawing it all out and getting more publicity?
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They should do what high school wrestlers do, there is a rule where wrestlers must be weighed in the day of meet. So what the coachs do is have the wrestlers came in and weigh themselves at like 6 am before school, then the wrestlers can eat/drink or whatever and gain the couple of pounds you normally add and lose through out the day.
When I wrestled, our weigh-ins were scheduled 1 hr before the meet started. This was a schoolboard regulation type thing. Best case scenario would be a tournament where the weigh-ins would be between 3:30pm - 5:00pm, wrestling starts at 6:30pm.

Tournaments would also have something called a weigh-out. I think it would be the most fair concept to use in the pro boxing (or MMA) situation, but it would not be very pleasing to the fans. Basically you'd weigh in like normal before the tournament, then if you qualified for the next day (final rounds) you could either way in again in the morning or weight out that night. The weigh-out would allow 1-2lbs over the limit. In the pros I could see them increasing it to 5lbs or so and it would still be pretty fair. Basically, they'd weight in the day before like they do now, but if they weigh out after the fight more than 5 lbs over the limit, they would be disqualified. That's where the fans would get pissed off. In a normal fight it wouldn't be a huge deal, but having the title fight decision reversed because somebody didn't make weight after the fight would cause a lot of issues.
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Old 06-08-2006, 02:41 PM   #13
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Weighing out would be pointless. The winner could annialate the opponent, win a championship, and lose to belt before he left the ring. It would help the sport lose even more credibility.
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They should just fight at the weight they can drop down to naturally. If you have to dehaydrate to make say 135lbs then fight at a fucking higher weight. Castillo struggles to make 140lbs! That's a whole division above his "fighting" one now. He would probably struggle to make 147lbs too.
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Old 06-15-2006, 12:47 AM   #15
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Weighing out would be pointless. The winner could annialate the opponent, win a championship, and lose to belt before he left the ring. It would help the sport lose even more credibility.
Which is why I said that in my post.
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Old 06-15-2006, 01:52 PM   #16
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I don't know why there's so many weightclases. I think there should only be like 4. Under 170, 170-190, 190-210, 210+ Having never done any sort of fight sport I don't konw if that's too much of a gap, but it seems logical to me.
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