What's the point of weighing in 30+ hours BEFORE the fights take place?

[The Rivv]

What if they did weigh ins 2 days before a fight. We’d probably be seeing 200lb featherweights

Volk would never loose again if they did that. You know he was a 700lbs Ford Escort before MMA right?

 

[The Rivv]

So the UFC can help fighters like Costa pretend to be Middleweights and fight at 214 pounds on fight night.

The entire weight cutting business is a sham.

Bobby is a good example of why moving up a weight class can be beneficial. He was an ok Welterweight, but since he moved up to Middleweight he’s 11-1 in the division and only lost to the undefeated current champion, and some people scored the rematch with Romero as a loss. Regardless of what you score it, that’s 10 rounds with a notorious chin taker.

The weight game seems to be loosing its merit. Hopefully it continues because it would suck if unhealthy fighters are stepping in the cage. Especially since most deaths in boxing are from the lower weights.

 

[j18lee]

Your brain can smack the side of your skull and cause a hemorage due to dehydration taking shots on a dehdrated brain is 100x more dangerous

Totally agree, but I was debating the difference that the guy said that boxing deaths were due to not having 24+ hours to rehydrate vs MMA. However, I said that boxing has also had 24+ hours weight-ins for as long as I remember, so no different than MMA's early weigh ins.

 

[nhbfan8080]

Any info on how their system works? For instance, DJ used to fight at 125, but he was over 140lbs on fight night, they only bumped him to 135, thats still +5lbs weight cut, is there like a number for how much they can cut and still pass their tests? From cutting +15lbs to around 5 sounds like and improvement to me, but they sell it as "erradicating weight cut", its still a weight cut, not a huge one, right?

The main idea is that the 'ring weight' cannot be too far off the fighters walk around weight. I don't know how that is established but there aren't that many weight classes anyway and a fighters walk around weight can easily be established since fighters have to continually log their weight. There is some sort of hydration test but I don't know the specifics of the test.