The Real Reason Some Guys Can’t Make Weight Anymore

Lately weight making and in particular fighters killing themselves to make weight has really come to the forefront of the sport again.

Chris Eubank’s junior’s barbaric weight cut recently against Conor Benn to make the middleweight limit of 160 pounds was one the most high profile.

He may have nearly done damage to himself with the weight cut but surely he’ll be up at super-middleweight competing next up away from that kind of weight cut.

The reason why fighters sometimes look to overdo it on the weight cutting is sometimes to get a perceived strength and power edge in a fight over what some may think is a smaller opponent then on fight night.

This has diminishing returns as Eubank Jr saw in his rematch with Conor Benn recently however, where the smaller Benn, a natural welterweight was actually stronger, faster and had a better gas tank at the weight then the bigger Eubank Jr.

The Real Reason Some Guys Can’t Make Weight Anymore

Even dropping the bigger Eubank Jr and winning a wide points decision on the night.

Eubank Jr like all fighters who can’t make weight anymore like that simply can’t do it anymore because they have grown out of a weight sometimes because their metabolisms are not as quick as they once were when they were younger or simply they are not looking after themselves of their diet as well when they where younger.

Or because they were too big for the weight in the first place and had no place being there in the first place.

What you can see in professional boxing as well sometimes is a younger prospect starts out at a weight in his late teens or early twenties and he was still growing and stuck around in the weight too long and got too big for the weight naturally as time went on.

This can be made even more difficult when fighters are training and fighting on the road.

Bring back same day weigh-ins in the future.