Fighters who miss weight should lose 75% of their Salary

By Boxing News - 11/18/2013 - Comments

By Al Hmmiel: Professional Boxing is a sport of weight classes designated for a reason to even the matches between fighters. Granted some fighters are taller and wider and older than other opponents and but making weight is a necessary requirement to keep the professionalism and fairness of the sport of Boxing intact and fair. When a fighter especially before a world championship bout fails to make the designated contract weight he is disgracing the sport of boxing and disgracing himself and his family. There should be no excuse for a professional fighter to miss his weight contract if that fighter is managed correctly and monitoring his diet.

It is a distinct embarrassment to Professional boxing when a title contender misses the weigh in weight he contracted to fight at. many big names in boxing have missed their assigned weight and needless to name names it is a disgrace to the sport. Weighing in every day two weeks before a fight should be mandatory for every top fighter. Proper monitoring of weight should eliminate these embarrassing blunders of missed contracted weigh-ins. Fining a fighter 75% of his purse should also be mandatory and his opponent given the opportunity to decline the bout if a fighter would come in too heavy on fight night. No fighter should miss weight if properly monitor and managed.

Boxing is a dying sport in America and embarrassing blunders such as coming in too heavy has to stop. Any fighter who misses weight in a championship fight should not be allowed to fight that night. But that fighter should also be banned for one year from fighting as a pro. Who knows where boxing is headed in the future but disrespect for weight in championship fights is a slap in the face to the integrity of the sport of boxing. Fighters fight for a reason and that is to support themselves and their families. Miss your weigh in weight then get penalized and fined and forfeit most of your purse.

Fighters who disrespect themselves and disrespect boxing by missing weight maybe do not deserve to be in boxing at all. If Boxing actually had strict rules and the organizational Czar to enforce these rules the sport would be better off. Boxing seems to be a rudderless ship floating in an ocean of uncertainty with no motor and no sails and in the midst of a hurricane. Will the sport sink? Who knows?



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