Comments Thread For: It's better to wait than be overweight: why boxing needs a new weigh-in policy

[BoxingUpdates]

Keyshawn Davis annihilated Gustavo Lemos in an ostensible lightweight fight, but that doesn't mean the overweight Lemos should have been allowed in the ring in the first place.
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[pnut901]

Boxers fight because they need to get paid. If "Boxing" is going to cancel fights when one guy misses weight , maybe the promoters should buy insurance against it so that the fighter on weight and the promotion don't lose their money. Just an idea.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Cutting weight should be banned and fighters should fight at their walking weight, IMO.

[pnut901]

Cutting weight should be banned and fighters should fight at their walking weight, IMO.

I like the idea but it would be impossible to enforce it.

[Bob]

With the technology we have today it's quite simple, you have to make a weight but you also have to make it at certain body mass percentages.

Fighter's could easily be scanned/measured & the measurements will produce your fight weight every year.

The fight's can then be easily set up & the weight cuts healthy.

[MalevolentBite]

Just go back to the orginal weight divisions!!

[AKAcronym]

Just go back to the orginal weight divisions!!

Less money for the orgs. Never going to happen.

[LOOKOUT]

The solution is simple. SAME DAY WEIGH IN. That's the way it used to be and forces the fighters to compete in their correct weight divisions.

[tonysoprano]

Don’t pay them if they miss weight. Nothing

Guarantee you nobody misses weight ever again.