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Originally Posted by DodgerIrish
It doubles as fan expo and also for photo ops along with the fact that gamblers like to see them comparatively
I've never heard anyone complain about them, wtf?
What changed is now they officially weigh in before the media weigh in due to the regulation relaxing to allow them a bigger window. Lots of them like to weigh in first thing in the morning then rehydrate for longer as well. So the part where they get on the scale before the face-off they are already rehydrated now.
You can see the edited together real weigh-ins on YouTube if you want to see how they look at their cut weight.
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Originally Posted by pissychips
I get that it serves a purpose as an event as one last push to sell the fight and build hype. That's why I said they should figure out something else.
What I meant was bizarre is how someone has actually carried that set of scales on stage for no reason, and the fighters come out and go through the motions of stepping on it so Rogan can read out what they weighed in at.
Wasn't even complaining really, it was more of an observation. They could do the exact same thing without them getting on the scales but choose to have them and pretend to weigh in, it is like something you'd see in North Korea.
I agree they should get rid of the scale and just have a face off event but they got to have a pretense to get them undressed I think.