The_budweiser Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 A good read guys. Dr Mike Loosemore MBE (British Olympic Boxing team doctor) explains the risks. ---- Fighters are risking their lives making weight and Dr Mike Loosemore MBE explains why On 10 November 2017, 18-year-old Australian fighter Jessica Lindsay wrote “weight cutting is sick” on her Instagram page while preparing for a Muay Thai fight. Six days later, she died of extreme dehydration, having collapsed while out running, 30 minutes before she was due to weigh in. Her organs, her sister said, had shut down “one by one”. Fighters are risking their life’s making weight and Dr Mike Loosemore MBE explains why - - Boxing News - Ring News24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRingRules Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their life's losing weight --- The various orgs and commishes could solve the problem with automatic promotion to the next division at the first missed weighin for both prefight and fight. Wouldnt solve completely, but overall the health benefits would improve immensely. Unfortunately, boxing run by greedy lowbrows and too many trainers and managers equally at fault in looking out for their fighters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their life's losing weight Lives not Life's - this put me off reading the rest of the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_budweiser Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their life's losing weight Lives not Life's - this put me off reading the rest of the article. Don't worry Gav, I didn't write it. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gavpowell Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their life's losing weight Don't worry Gav, I didn't write it. ;-) That doesn't make it any better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pittbox Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their lives losing weight The only solution I see is to have series of weigh-ins with the first one being conducted at least few weeks before the fight. If you're above the limit then, you're out. Of course, it wouldn't happen, because most of the fights aren't even announced few weeks earlier, but this would prevent extreme weight cutting to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cableaddict Posted September 27, 2018 Share Posted September 27, 2018 Re: Boxers risk their lives losing weight I'm stunned that a doctor, writing that article, din't mention the dangers of low cerebral fluid. - Easily the most serious danger of all. As for "fixing" the problem, fairly effective solutions are easy. - But nobody wants to do it. Same as it ever was ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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