Making the Weight: Boxing's Lethal Secret

Making the Weight: Boxing's Lethal Secret

Sport Shorts

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Read by: Damian Lynch

Language: English

Length: 1 hour and 1 minute

Publisher: Audible Studios

Release date: 2013-08-16

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AppleAU FlagTop Audiobooks - Sports & Outdoors185September 19, 2024

Barry J. Whyte examines the dangers of boxing’s 24-hour weigh-in by looking into the far-reaching consequences of a fight between Joey Gamache and Arturo Gatti in February 2000. He shines a light on a controversial system which allows boxers to ‘boil down’ for the weigh-in the day before the fight then pile the weight back on in the time left before stepping into the ring. He exposes the extreme physiological dangers both boxers are subject to under this flawed system.