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    Default Re: Why not have same fight night weigh ins again?

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    The thing with Oscar was he had to use an IV Drip to rehydrate himself. IV drips are used to treat people who cannot rehydrate orally. You have to ask yourself why he couldn't rehydrate orally. Maybe making a weight that he hadn't come close to maing for a good few years had a big say in it.
    Yea everyone heard that comment of Roach, but what has got me curious about the IV. On 24/7, they were saying his weight was already ~147, I couldn't understand why he would need to rehydrate, if he already made weight naturally (Deer & Kangaroo meat and the like diet). Were they just faking us out as part of the show (an the Pacquiao camp)? That would make sense if they were.
    Who knows. My guess is he didn't re-fuel with enough carbohydrates. I heard a comment from Oscar explaining his diet was high protein, low carb which is a bit odd for an athlete. Re-fuelling with carbohyrate can count for anywhere between 4-10lbs especially if the athlete is 'carb loading' (come fight night).

    Now to me if he was comfortably on the weight weeks before-hand surley he wouldn't have been on a low carbohydrate diet considering he is likely to be training for several hours per day. I saw him step on the scales about 3 weeks out on 24/7 and i think he was around 158lbs, so unless the scales were wrong, he wasn't 'on the weight' - hence the low carbohydrate diet.

    My guess is he wasn't on the weight at all (the clip of him weighing in 3 weeks out suggest this) and the low carbohydrate diet was put in place (wrongly) to help him to make weight. This will lead to a loss of muscle tissue and weight. Whether or not this was intentional is beyond me, but whatever happened meant Oscar could only manage to put 2lbs on in over 24 hours....which suggests that the 24 hour window still wasn't long enough to rehydrate somebody who has boiled down to the weight to that extent and for some reason he was unable to orally re-hydrate and orally replenish muscle glycogen levels - which go a long way to explaining how poor he performed.

    So my conclusion from that is in the extreme, 24 hours may seem long enough but it really isn't. Same day weight ins would stop fighters from attempting to make a weight that is almost impossible to make, because they'd surely realise they cannot possibly re-hydrate in 6 hours.
    HAHAHA he was on a low carb diet to make the weight and had nothing in the tanks due to that. Thats funny, low carb, lol he's boxer not a model.

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    Default Re: Why not have same fight night weigh ins again?

    I say same day weigh in and less divisions. So fighters wont have to drop belts left and right due to weight.

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