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Subject: Re: Boxing Authority/Commission Gripe Author: bright [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 08:55:33 11/17/08 Mon In reply to: Neal Weaver 's message, "Boxing Authority/Commission Gripe" on 00:33:59 11/13/08 Thu I am with you on the perp feeling. I have cornered at both MMA and Boxing events and at least they are consistant in making everyone feel like they are under arrest. The refs seem pretty cool though. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: Boxing Authority/Commission Gripe Author: James Speight [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 00:18:44 11/18/08 Tue Neal the floater rule has only recently been abused, or misused. The way I understand it was that 3-5 pounds was a way for fighters of different weight classes to be able to fight I got kicked out of a weigh in recently because the guys who were running the weight in didn’t know what they were doing. They let a title match champion leave after he was 4 pounds over weight, before the challenger weighted in he weight in 3 pounds under weight that made a 7 pound spread. Then they came to me saying we got a problem I said you got a problem now the champion was down a McDonalds and wasn’t able to make weight. Great !!! The Floater rule is being used way too many times now. To the point that a lot of the fighters are using that as a buffer, and that is wrong, you say you are fighting at 170, 185, or 155 that is where you should be at not at 174 159 or 189. Now most of my guys fight at about 2-3 pounds under their walk weight, and if you want to cut 20-30 pounds to fight that is fine, but you cant stop short. If one fighter was prepared and you were not and shows up 4 pounds over, guess what, you put on the vinyl suit and lets cuts that weight while the other fighter takes a nap, because he was prepared. And you were not. After going some rounds with the boxing commission, and some apology for the incompetent officers, Jason and Sherry told me the only why they can make the promoters enforce the weight classes (that sounded funny) was to put the fighters in a weight contract. Seemed a little bit extreme to get someone to show up at the weight they should be. The contract allows the Boxing commission fine the fighter if they don’t show up or they don’t show up at the stated weight. I think, or hope, the boxing commission will be doing a better job at that rule from now on. But you have to be able to walk away from a fight or two. Kina hard when your fighter is saying in your ear “coach I want to fight him” then you get to watch him loose a close spilt decision. That you knew would have made a difference if they made him run off that last 4 pounds. Live and Learn James Speight [ Post a Reply to This Message ]