Can somebody explain to me how being weight-drained affects a boxers chin?

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Originally Posted by Salty

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Originally Posted by hitmandonny

Weight drained usually occurs in fighters struggling to make weight.

Fighters who struggel to make weight usually attempt to dehydrate themselves and shed any retained water in the last few days before a fight.

The membrane inside the cranium, thats serves as a shock pad, is composed of a very high percentage of water. When the body's water percentage decreases so does this mebrane. With the membrane depleted, the brains shock absorption capabilities are diminished.



Some of the guys that drink may understand this. Alcohol too causes the body to dehydrate. This causes headaches the morning after.
I magine getting hit in the head in this state.

Now imagine you are dehydrated for days before a fight with another professiobal athlete looking to hurt you.

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Yep and which is why you should never punch a drunk bloke if they hit their head they can cause serious damage even death. Seems to have happened a lot in my part of the world lately.

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Happens all the time:rolleyes:

Guys out to prove they're hard:-\

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Originally Posted by Scrap

Interestingly if you dehydrate badly it takes four days to Hydrate properly. There are more accidents now with weigthins the day before than when same day weigthins were the norm, funnily theres a lot less bouts work that one out. :o

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Excellent point scrap , I enjoy your articles !

Very dangerous dehydration to make weight, the fluid that protects the brain from the skull is depleted causing more chance of severe injury on impact.. it take at least 48 hours for that fluid to replenish leaving the fighter vulnerable to increased chance of being knocked out and worse.

I like the rules which some sanctioning bodies have put in place that makes a fighter weight in at different cycles during the preparation period , to insure that fighters are within the weight limit via proper diet and work ethic. . I’d like to see more of these type weight maintenance programs instituted across the board.

Losing weight makes you weak . Someone who is strong is harder to knock over than someone who is weak.

Eh its not really effecting their chin..it effects their legs and survival ability against damage.

Usually when a fighter weight drains their legs go.