Quote Originally Posted by The Fightfan View Post
Quote Originally Posted by Lance Uppercut View Post
The real reason for the weigh in a day before the fight is for publicity. It helps sell tickets/PPVs, so I don't think we will being seeing it go anytime soon.


However, I agree that same day weighins would force fighters to fight at their natural weight.

I am in total agreement with this statement. It has nothing to do with hydration well maybe a little but mainly do to money. Amatuer fighter's are known to go on the scale and sometimes fight 10 mins later if your the first match-up. I do think there should be a hydration limit. I am 230 now if I sweat me ass of and dehydrate down to like 215 like I have done I can not see myself putting on 15lbs in 24 hours. Which bring's me to my next question how do they put this much weight on in such limited time? Kind of odd to think someone ate 15 pounds + of food in a 24 hour time period.
It's carbohydrate loading mate. 15lbs in 24 hours for such a big guy anyway is a piece of cake.

The fact is you've boiled down from your natural weight to your weigh-in weight, by fight night you will be at your natural fighting weight . If you weighed in at your natural weight you would have to move up a division or two.

A method of carb-loading would be to exercise intensely for 3 minutes every 1 hour. Immediately after each 3 minute session, consume around 50-80g of simple/complex carbs with around 10-20g of protein.

Glycogen receptors are much more sensitive after intense exercise and after a period of 'starvation' so the 10-15lbs that you see fighters put on is normally quite easy to achieve.