Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
Quote Originally Posted by IamInuit View Post
It’s been that way since 8 weight classes turned to 17 and fighters started taking advantage of dehydration and modern chemistry. Bizier looked like a shrimp against Brook. Morales almost killed himself to make 122 but it paid dividends the night of the fight. Gatti jumping off the scale before the weight registered at the Gomache fight and then almost killing the dude.

Same day weigh -ins would curb weight cheating.
they changed it to the day before for safety reasons didn't they?
That’s the rumour but it begs the question at hand. If you can’t make the division weight safely the day of the contest then you have no business being in that division. I mean how can it be safer for natural weight fighters to fight against a guy two divisions higher on fight night then the weight the fight is supposed to be at? Safety?