Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
Why do you think they stopped having weigh ins in the day of the fight?

A dehydrated fighter doesn't perform as well, more chances of getting hit and not coping with the shots as well.... the muscles that absorb the shot and the nervous system don't respond as well.

More importantly the brain is dehydrated of fluid that protects it.












Spot on and i do know a bit about this subject as i used it in an English essay while at school..
The brain is surrounded by fluid which protects it, if a fighter is badly dehydrated then that same fluid is badly reduced offering far less protction to the brain itself.
It can get to the stage where it's simply brain bashing against the inner skull which will cause damage to the brain or bleeding (Clots).
It is instrumental in loads of cases of fighters in the latter stages of fights collapsing.
Not only are some of these fighters already badly dehydrated before the fights (which they will down litres of water to solve it) they often then go and fight full on wars sweating loads and mainly under the heat of the ring lights etc which is usually the case when a fighter suffers serious brain trauma.
In a weird twist when Benn fought Eubank he was reported to be 6 pounds overweight hours before the weigh in and is said to have ran around in layers and layers of clothing in an underground car park and skipped and shadowboxed in a sauna wearing a few tacksuits.
He went to war that night in a brutal fight but brainwise came out ok but that just sums up Nigel Benn really!
But think of it this way....how many heavyweights simply collapse and suffer lasting brain damage during or shortly after fight...?
Bar a few cases it is nearly always fighters from The Mid to lighter weights who do have to sometimes lose crazy amounts of weight to fight.
Just look at the shell of Oscar that we saw v Pacman