Yoel Romero made weight in my book

[IrritatedTomcat]

Yoel Romero made weight in my book.

It's 0.2 pounds, which in the past and present would have been allowed, in a title fight, depending on the location, and always allowed in any other fights.

The difference in opinions amongst regulatory bodies over different locations may and does exist, but it does not provide a universal criteria for making weight, but for allowing certain requirements to be met before the fight is given a green light.

0.2 pounds out of 185 pounds would mean that

Romero weighed in 0.1 percent, not 1 percent or 10 percent, but 0.1 percent heavier than Whitaker.

Your book is fiction.

 

[KinG]

200grams is nothing , so i have to agree a little . Dont give a shit about that

 

[HIMBOB]

It's all fair.

The only group materially affected is Yoel and his supporters.

It's all on Yoel so this is completely fair.

 

[HIMBOB]

True, but it is weird that they aren't universal rules. In Canada he is following the rules but in Chicago he isn't?

Imagine if other major sports had such large differences for important games. Itd be like moving the 3 point line back 2 feet in Cleveland but keeping it the same elsewhere in the league.

Much worse are the different cage sizes and that they can decide to make non title fights 5 rounds if they want.

And that ignores illogical match making which is the biggest inconsistency.

 

[mxer31]

You are wrong.
New Jersey is on the dot. Neveda round down so upto .5
Quebec allows up to .9

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/news/NJ-Nevada-clarify-weigh-in-rules

that article is old as fck my dude. I dont want to say its not true because im not 100% sure, but ive been following this shit pretty heavily for a long time now, and outside of the diaz vs gsp fight, i

Here's Montreal making Bernard Hopkins cut .9lbs of weight. Notice they did not round down like they did with GSP:

http://www.badlefthook.com/2011/5/20/2181530/pascal-vs-hopkins-2-weigh-in-time-dawson-diaconu

Then here's more evidence of Montreal in fact using decimals for weigh-ins, not this round down crap:

http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/UF...oji-Horiguchi-on-Target-for-Title-Clash-85195

Demetrious Johnson (124.5) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi (124.5)

http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2010/12/10/1867933/ufc-124-st-pierre-vs-koscheck-weigh-in-results

Dustin Hazelett (155) vs. Mark Bocek (155.5)
Rafael Natal (185) vs. Jesse Bongfeldt (180.5)
Matt Riddle (170.5) vs. Sean Pierson (170.5)

They sign a contract to fight at a specific weight. For championship fights the contract states it's got to be right on the dot. Any athletic commission that follows the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts follows these rules. So either way you look at it they're required to weigh in at their contractually obligated weight. Commissions that don't follow the unified rules can round to what they want but they don't all use .4 but that's not non title fights only. In the US you won't find any commission that rounds up or down anymore for title or non title fights.

thank you sir. was waiting for someone to shut these casuals up. tired of hearing people with no clue talk about shit like they are experts but fail to prove their point besides a fckn article from 2013. Championship fights in the USA have alwaysssss been on point. no half pound allowance, no .2 pound allowance. FFS

 

[det_regnar_på_vår_kärlek]

200grams is nothing , so i have to agree a little . Dont give a shit about that

It's not 200 grams. It's even less than that. 0,2 pounds = 90 grams (0,09kg).

 

[El Fernas]

Your book doesnt matter, he missed weight.

 

[campbecc]

It is unfortunately that depending on what commmsision he was fighting under he would have made weight. Vegas allows .4 I believe, Quebec .9 though I believe New Jersey is also 185 right on the nose with no allowance.

I'm pretty sure you are right, vegas rounds down to the nearest half pound and Quebec rounds down the nearest pound. they make those rules because they are accounting for the margin of error in the scale (and today their scales are probably so accurate and precise it's no longer necessary but the rules are in place)

Yoel knew that illinois requires you to hit the number exactly so he should have been ready to get below 185 if necessary. It's his own fault for cutting it so close trying to be as big as possible. he knew the risk he was taking with that strategy.