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Truth.Boxing used to do same day weigh ins until Boom Boom Mancini killed that Korean boxer. Part of the safety precautions taken after that incident was to move weigh ins the day before.
If weigh ins were moved back to fight night, fighters will still be cutting weight but now be fighting dehydrated which will lead to more serious injuries and possibly death. The current system works, fighters need to learn how to cut weight properly and safely.
weight cutting is lame, and anyone who's "pro weight-cutting" is a moron
how could you possibly be for unfair advantages and having fighters gas after 1 round?
Preexisting condition or cutting so much water weight that his blood turned to cake batter? Either way the weight cut didn't murder him, he chose to overdo it and now he's dead.
Boxing used to do same day weigh ins until Boom Boom Mancini killed that Korean boxer. Part of the safety precautions taken after that incident was to move weigh ins the day before.
Anyone who thinks weight cutting is safe should ask Daniel Cormier's kidney
But it's the fighters choice to do it or not, right? If you leave it in their hands it will self-regulate. For sure!
looking forward to seeing Cormier at 205 in his next fight......
The problem is that it's not that simple to stop people from weight cutting. You can't just tell fighters to not cut weight, "pretty please" won't work. Cutting weight gives an advantage and people will do it as long it does. If you want to stop weight cutting you have to have a way to enforce it.Weight-cutting sucks and I am shocked at the number of people actually rushing to defend such a horrid practice, especially the way it's done in MMA - WAY over the line...
It's always tragic when someone passes too soon. I don't know if things have changed but when I was wrestling in college you had to certify for the weight class and a hydration test would follow. The fact is that people still would find was around it.
yep a guy I wrestled with got caught with a small squeeze bottle that was filled with "hydrated piss" taped to his middle leg, they just started instituting the water requirement at that time.
Yes, car accidents don't kill anyone either, it's the internal bleeding and trauma that does it. You chose to drive the car after all.
Weight-cutting sucks and I am shocked at the number of people actually rushing to defend such a horrid practice, especially the way it's done in MMA - WAY over the line...
Let them weigh in the day before and they are allowed to weigh a couple pounds over that weight on fight night.
The current system sucks and it's unfair, especially to fighters who wouldn't agree to hurt their bodies so severely if they wouldn't get mauled by much bigger dudes if they didn't do it
Boxing used to do same day weigh ins until Boom Boom Mancini killed that Korean boxer. Part of the safety precautions taken after that incident was to move weigh ins the day before.
If weigh ins were moved back to fight night, fighters will still be cutting weight but now be fighting dehydrated which will lead to more serious injuries and possibly death. The current system works, fighters need to learn how to cut weight properly and safely.
Yea, pretty sad.
It was Already posted on Worldwide MMA discussion though.
The problem is that it's not that simple to stop people from weight cutting. You can't just tell fighters to not cut weight, "pretty please" won't work. Cutting weight gives an advantage and people will do it as long it does. If you want to stop weight cutting you have to have a way to enforce it.
Having weigh in's at the day is not a good way to enforce not weight cutting. People will still cut weight and then they will fight dehydrated.
Fighters really want to win so bad that they will sacrifice their health to do so.
You have to remember that fighters at the highest level are not reasonable people. They won't give up their dream so that they will be healthy and live to be old. It's the opposite, they will do everything to win, including take a risks with their health.
let me get this logic, figthers will still weight cut, eventhough they cannot rehydrate back? you mean fighters will chose to fight dehydrated in order to gain what??? I really cannot get this "fighters will still cut weight"... no they wont, they will diet and try to make the lowest safest weight to fight, wont be cutting 20 pounds, and if they do, them its on them, gotta be one fucking moron to do that...
Yea, there's no way a professional fighter, especially one in a championship match, would cut excessive amounts of weight just prior to a fight to avoid losing his shot at a title. There's also no way it'd kill him.
Oh. Wait.