This Is How Fighters Die

[Haulport]

just read the first post of the second thread and got very interested. good stuff.

Many thanks my fren! Glad I can contribute something that is interesting and not just funny (which is good too).

 

[SCADA]

There is always going to be weight cutting...but they could implement some percentages to maintain a healthy level of weight cutting. That would likely cause a bunch of fights to be cancelled though.

 

[Chromium]

You're totally right and I think they know and understand how being dehydrated leads to a piss poor performance. It doesn't matter if you're 12% heavier than the animal standing across from you if you're dehydrated. I do think some fighters would try it but it would take a year or so before the results showed just how detrimental to performance it actually is.

Any particular reason you cut out your quotation of me mid-sentence, right before I said "and incurring additional head trauma."? Because that was main point. If you have fighters potentially getting brain damage en route to figuring out what weight class they belong in, I'm probably not going to be in favor of it.

 

[Chromium]

First off, I'm enjoying the discussion with you, cheers for doing your part.

No problem, cheers mate.

 

[1031]

Any particular reason you cut out your quotation of me mid-sentence, right before I said "and incurring additional head trauma."? Because that was main point. If you have fighters potentially getting brain damage en route to figuring out what weight class they belong in, I'm probably not going to be in favor of it.

Oh definitely! Your concerns are contingent upon the one thing both of us agree on (less time to re-hydrate would mean less time for error).
We disagree on how fighters would respond to that hypothetical situation. I don't want to get into whose perspective is more virtuous as it doesn't really matter when we're talking about the enjoyment derived from watching trained athletes fight each other and "potentially getting brain damage." So, I elected to leave that bit out because I wanted to focus on the starting point we agree on.