I agree. Same day weigh ins and even better regular weigh ins a month out from the fight, once a week where they have to be within a certain % of their competition weight. It will cost more but what price do you put on fighters safety?
What about still 36 hours but you have that weekly testing?
If you allow weigh in the day before then you are allowing a whole 24 hours or even more, up to 36 hours for rehydration and we know that boxers and other athletes that weigh in can fuck that up with big problems or be much bigger than their opponent which obviously creates another problem. The weekly weigh ins would cure a lot of it imho. I suppose though those who really want to cheat the system could just cut weight weekly but they'd have to be really dedicated. But that's why I think you should have same day weigh ins for the fight. That would take away any advantage of cheating the weekly weigh ins. Amateurs do same day weigh ins and you don't hear of many deaths in the ring in their code. I think the Pros could learn a lesson from the Ammies here. Or even better same night weigh ins with no chance to rehydrate even a small amount.
I could be wrong, but I believe same day weighs have been used in the past and were found to be even more dangerous because guys still cut the same amount of weight and then came in in worse condition.
My line of questioning here isn't because i doubt what you're saying....so bear with me
Yeah same day weigh ins still give fighters time to rehydrate but same night weigh ins would give them almost no time to rehydrate. And weekly weigh ins could lead to some guys maintaining poor hydration but they'd be shooting themselves in the foot training in a state of constant dehydration. They'd feel like shit all the time and for what? Because they won't be able to rehydrate come fight night either.
from the second hand research I recall, a same day morning weighin is kind of day before-lite. Guys are better hydrated than if the weighin was right before but not as well as day-before.
If you had same day weigh ins you'd only have let's say 10 hours to rehydrate if your fight was on at 2200 and you weighed in at 1200. It's harder to rehydrate say 20lbs if you only have 10 hours to do it then if you have 36 hours. It's still possible though as fighters can typically dehydrate 10% of their bodyweight and then rehydrate that all back before their fight. They could do this with a same day weigh in if that gives them 10 hours to do it. The way to stop it is weigh ins a few hours before fight time. Add this to weekly weigh ins and I'm pretty sure you stop it entirely. It would stop fighters fighting in a dehydrated state and we wouldn't see such big size differences between fighters.
Yeah that's why I'd advocate weekly weigh ins for a month out from a fight. Only crazy fighters would dehydrate to make weekly weigh ins. Then add the same night weigh in where you'd not be able to rehydrate much at all. There would be no advantage to it at all.
I like the fact that this would force people to move divisions. It'd be almost impossible to cheat this system and still be as effective. It's addressing a few issues....it theoretically could work
IMO fighter safety is the commissions’ responsibility entirely. The promoters, broadcast partners, and fighters and their teams are always going to have a vested interest in having all scheduled fights go forward.
weight them 24 hours before and directly before stepping into the ring. it would eliminate cutting entirely.
ban weight cuts.
