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Look at facts it wasnt
I think you were replying to me so: Please feel free to point me in the direction of the facts.

Its common sense really.

Knowing they would only have to fight hours later, fighters would d=drop less weight than now. If fighters entered the ring in the state they turn up to weigh ins now, they would never expect themselves to stand up in a strong wind let alone win a fight.

For example look at the pics of Cotto at the weigh in and the fight. You think if it was a same day weigh in Cotto would of turned up like he did for a day before weigh in and try to fight like that only a few hours later. Even in a sport with a high number of uneducated competitors, you wouldnt find many people that would try that.
The day before weight in was not to the benefit of opponents, it was for fighters who drained themselves to the very last drop, then had to rehydrate hours before the fight. Please neve rmention common sense, there is no commonality to sense. This makes sense to me, but not you.

If you only have hours to rehydrate, you are bound to be in worse condition.
But if you only have hours to rehydrate your not gonna push your body to that dangerous lower limit.

The problem is by starving themselves of fluid as many boxer's do more now, the boxer's are putting themselves in more. The fluid around the brain that is drained is the last to be replenished and this is not sufficiently in a 24 hour period so boxer's who excessively drain themselves cos they believe they will replace the electrolytes in their body in these 24 hours.

Same day weigh ins meant generally boxers drained themselves less and were safer in this respect.

Another danger of day before weigh ins is the large disparity seen in weights on fight night. One could argue, what is the point of having multiple weights to increase safety when previous day weigh ins mean that we could effectively have a welterweight facing a super middleweight