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    Default Re: Catchweights are becoming an easy copout.

    Quote Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe View Post
    I would have no problem with catchweights if the weigh in was the day of the fight. This way guys who weight drain won't be able to pile weight back on and won't have an advantage. Did you see the guff of Ward offering Mayweather a fight at middleweight. Go fuck yourself and fight Adamek or Haye at Cruiser
    That is the ticket. If you are going to negotiate a catchweight bout, then also agree to make that weight that day. Even better, at ringside. That would make "weight" relevant again, because weight and weight classes all become irrelevant when "lightweights" are fighting at 152.

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    Default Re: Catchweights are becoming an easy copout.

    Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Silkeyjoe View Post
    I would have no problem with catchweights if the weigh in was the day of the fight. This way guys who weight drain won't be able to pile weight back on and won't have an advantage. Did you see the guff of Ward offering Mayweather a fight at middleweight. Go fuck yourself and fight Adamek or Haye at Cruiser
    That is the ticket. If you are going to negotiate a catchweight bout, then also agree to make that weight that day. Even better, at ringside. That would make "weight" relevant again, because weight and weight classes all become irrelevant when "lightweights" are fighting at 152.


    That would put some muthafukas out of business.
    Like Sulaiman...er... I mean... Chavez Jr.

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